Sunday, June 16, 2019

Asphalt Boys


Cabaret Voltaire : Nag Nag Nag

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"I firmly believe Cabaret Voltaire will turn out to be one of the most important new bands to achieve wider recognition this year. Wait and see."
-Andy Gill

In June of 1979 Rough Trade Records released Cabaret Voltaire's "Nag Nag Nag", the industrial post-punk band's single. It's grating as hell, but it's also breaking new ground, paving the way for the merger of industrial music and dance music. As one RYM user noted : 

I can't help but wonder if this is something like the post-punk equivalent of The Velvet Underground and Nico's oft-repeated story that almost no one bought it, but everyone that did started a band. Because holy Jesus you can draw a pretty straight line from this to dozens and dozens of bands that came after it.





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