From: x88phipps2@gw.wmich.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: RE: Laibach Fans UNITE!!!
Date: 5 Nov 92 23:25:20 EST
Organization: Western Michigan University

                              

A few of you have been chatting about Laibach, and I had to add my tcw
(2 cents worth).
 
> 1) "Tournee over Occupied Netherlands" (tape-never heard it)
> 
> 2) "Rekapitulacja' -early works from the 1980-1983 or so (never heard
> it either)

Goddamn if this one isn't hot!!!  If you're into vinyl, you'll get a
treat with this one.  A neato bandito book which though indecipherable,
is still cool as hell.  It was out of print on CD for the last year or
so and just came back into print.  Yea, it's 20 bucks or so, but
you NEEEED this.  My favorite Laibach.
 
> 3) "Nova Akropola" - their best, heaviest, scariest, most amazing
> release!!! This one is crucial for any Laibach fan!!!!
 
Damn straight!

> 4) "Tournee over Occupied Europe" - live version of "Nova Akropola".
> Quite amazing,too. Most memorable for a 13 minute version of the song
> "Nova Akropola", probably one of the heaviest songs in the history of
> rock.
> 
> 5) "Laibach" - a compilation of early works from the pre-Nova Aropola
> period.A lot of intersting stuff here, some of the songs remind me of
> early Einsturzende Neubauten and Test Department (recently re-released
> on CD in Germany or England, I don't remember exactly).
> 
> 6) "Opus Dei" - pretty good, some amazing songs, but definitely not as
> dark as "Nova Akropola".
> 
> 7) "Let it be' - a whole album of Beatles' covers. I think it's
> brilliant.
> 
> 8) 'Sympathy for the devil" - originally 2 EP's, later compiled on
> one CD. 8 different versions of the classic Rolling Stones song.
> Some of them are O.K., but 2 or 3 are pure shit disco.

SHAME on you!!!

 
> 9) "Kapital" - their latest amazing release.When I first listened to
> it I was very dissapointed: it's a totally new Laibach: not the slow,
> heavy,classical music-influenced one. However, after listening to the
> album another couple of times it finally got under my skin and at the
> moment it totally blows me away. What we have here is a very dark

I'm glad you liked it, I wish I did. The only ones that I see right now
you've missed are the "Die Libe"(sp?) single, which is worth having, Macbeth
which I think others have mentioned, and my all-time-favorite-how-on-earth-could
-you-not-have-this-one humdinger of a cd(Well ok, it's not my favorite
but it's got a great book.) "Krst pod Triglavom-Baptism".  It's on SUBROSA
records, which automatically makes it a must-have.  I will admit, however
that I haven't listened to it in a long time, and that alot of the stuff from 
this time-period does tend to blend together, but it gives me a warm fuzzy 
feeling to know it's there when I want it.  The cover looks like something from
Deutsche Grammaphon, except the masthead is in silver instead of yellow.
This seems to be an integral part of a stage art-performance, and the
pictures make me really wish I could have seen it.  It's SUB CD 001-9 if
Anyone's interested in getting one.  And you should be.
 
> That's all for now. Hope you enjoyed this!

We always enjoy taliking about Laibach!
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