EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN Halber Mensch LP WHAT'S SO FUNNY 1985 GER orig+insert
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EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN
Along with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, Germany's Einstürzende Neubauten ("collapsing new buildings")
helped pioneer industrial music with an avant-garde mix of white-noise guitar drones, vocals verging on the unlistenable at times,
and a clanging, rhythmic din produced by a percussion section consisting of construction materials, power tools,
and various metal objects. Einstürzende Neubauten were founded by vocalist/guitarist Blixa Bargeld
and percussionist/American expatriate N.U. Unruh in Berlin as a performance art collective
"HALBER MENSCH"
1985 LP WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT.. RECORDS SF 14
MADE IN GERMANY ORIGINAL PRESSING
SINGLE COVER + LYRICS INSERT
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LABEL: WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT.. - GREY LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT
Label Code: LC 8963
Catalog on cover: (spine & rear): SF 14
Catalog on labels: SF 14
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped & Etched): SF-14-A/2 SNB
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped & Etched): SF-14-B SNB
On labels: rim text reads "Alle........Made in Germany by Record Partner Hamburg"
GEMA
Alle Titel: Bargeld / ChunG / Hacke / Strauss / Unruh
Published by Freibank 1985
(on Side A only): except *) T.: Bargeld / M.: s.o. + Nikkolai Weidemann
On back cover: Produced by Gareth Jones + Einsturzende Neubauten
Hansa + Tritonus Studios 84-85 Berlin
Sehnsucht by BBC for John Peel session in 1983
tracklisting
Side A: HALBER MENSCH - YU GUNG - TRINKLIED - ZNS
Side B: SEELE BRENNT - SEHNSUCHT - DER TOD IST EIN DANDY - LETZTES BIEST (AM HIMMEL)
grading
RECORD EX but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE NEAR EX but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Though it's a bit less intentionally noisy than previous Neubaten material, ½ Mensch is, in a way, the group's masterpiece.
The inspired use of such "traditional" instruments as a grand piano alongside the band's characteristic
blazing percussion make for a record similar more to their compositional influences like Stockhausen
than their nearest contemporaries, Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire. The record that showed
Einstürzende Neubaten could rise above the concept of noise for its own sake to reach another level
of noise-oriented post-punk music, ½ Mensch is an excellent feat of industrial music...(AllMusic)
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