Easy Listening rolls through more styles of music than collaborators (En Esch, Groovie Mann, Chris Connelly, Chris Vrenna, Keith Levine, Penn Jillette, etc.).
A hot female singer (who can actually sing) is matched to guitars & programming, mostly mid-tempo, juggling real & synth drums. Martin Atkins produced.
Reading off the bio: “These bands (on Notes from Thee Underground 2) will soon follow in the path paved by Tub Ring, Pointy Teeth, CEOXiME, The Follow…”
Industrial bands covering Johnny Cash. When you want tongue-in-cheek, you get seriousness. When you want a dead-serious, brutal version, you get a goof.
The ever-mercurial Martin Atkins and friends got extremely high, picked up a sitar, did some drum’n’bass programming, and covered The Sex Pistols songs.
Tub Ring works in small doses, but tends to wear thin after a point. Intellectually interesting, technically superior, but it just doesn’t hit you in the gut.
Tho’ by now an institution, Pigface has always stayed a step to the side of the Industrial Nation, putting out combinations of annoyance and funky beats.
Japan is known for the most atrocious noise bands as well as some of the most saccharine pop. The Pixies were a buncha noise heads who wrote pop songs.