"Spitting love back in agression"
-16 Volt, Perfectly Fake

There are some albums that are considered de rigeur for an industrialist to own and as I go through life spreading the word of the Industrial, sometimes with shotguns, I made a list of "must have" albums to give to the unworthy. That list, after much input from the denizens of Rec.music.industrial, is given here. This is subject to change.

• Aube
  • Wire Trap
• Babyland
  • You Suck Crap
• Cabaret Voltaire
  • The Living Legends
  • The Arm of the Lord
• Chemlab
  • Burnout at the Hydrogen Bar
• Coil
  • Horse Rotorvator
  • Unnatural History II
  • Love's Secret Domain
• Delerium
  • Syrophenikan
• Einsturzende Neubauten
  • Strategies Against Architecture I
  • Drawings of Patient O.T.
• Front 242
  • Official Version
  • Geography
  • 06:21:03:11 Up Evil
  • Front By Front
• Front Line Assembly
  • Caustic Grip
• Godflesh
  • Godflesh
• Haujobb
  • Homes & Gardens
• Intermix
  • Intermix
• Illusion of Safety
  • Water Seeks its Own Level
• Kraftwerk
  • Trans Europe Express
• Leaether strip
  • Penetrate the Satanic Citizen
• Lustmord
  • Heresy
• Merzbow
  • Venereology
• Ministry
  • Land of Rape and Honey
• Nine Inch Nails
  • Fixed
• NON
  • Easy Listening For Iron Youth
• Current '93
  • Thunder Perfect Mind
• Meat Beat Manifesto
  • Storm the Studio
• Skinny Puppy
  • VivisectVI
  • Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
  • Last Rights
• Smolders, Ios
  • Music For A CD Player
• SPK
  • Zamia Lehmanni
• Thrill Kill Kult
  • Confessions of a Knife
• Throbbing Gristle
  • Second Annual Report
  • 20 Jazz Funk Greats
• Various Artists
  • RAS DVA - There is No Time (4 CD Boxed set)
  • WAXTRAX - BlackBox (3 CD Boxed set)
  • Cleopatra - The Industrial Revolution 2nd Ed. (2 CD's)
  • Cleopatra - The Digital Space Between vol 2

All the bands listed above can be found on the Industrial Pages at the following links:

Industrialists Reviews

Thanks go to the following for input.

• Francis X. Connor (waxtrax@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu)
• Robb Cunningham (iceolate@smartlink.net)
• Eric Brunick (coil@convex.com)
• phoenix.hawk (phoenix@applewize.com)
• David Johnson (phaedrus@delta1.deltanet.com)
• Druid (paulsc@omni.voicenet.com)

Some other fine groups which many people on Rec.music.industrial like to listen to as well.

• Delerium (This is classified as industrial as well)
  • Stone Towers
  • Spiritual Archives
• Helmet
  • Strap It On
• Joy Division
  • Substance
• My Bloody Valentine
  • Loveless
• Peter Gabriel
  • Passion (Soundtrack for the LT of Christ)
• Pink Floyd
  • Atom Heart Mother
  • Wish You Were Here
  • The Wall
  • Dark Side of the Moon
• Tool
  • Undertow
  • Opiate
• Moby
  • Everything is Wrong
• The Chemical Brothers
  • Exit Planet Dust
• The Cure
  • Disintegration
• Bad Religion
  • Suffer
• Minor Threat / Fugazi
  • (MT) Discography
  • (Fugazi) Repeater

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