Retro

KMFDM | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 17, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Tvt
• ASIN: B00000F1DT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,897 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #52 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial
  • #74 in Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial > Industrial > Industrial Dance

Track Listings

1. Power

2. Juke Joint Jezebel

3. Brute

4. A Drug Against War

5. Light

6. Money

7. Vogue

8. Godlike-Doglike

9. Virus-Pestilence

10. Liebeslied-Leibesleid

11. More and Faster

12. Rip the System!

13. What Do You Know, Deutschland?

14. Don't Blow Your Top

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Although they weren't as essential to the development of modern industrial music as, say, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, or Front 242, Germany's KMFDM have pretty much been around since the inception of the genre. In their infant days they may have been clanging on metal pipes like country mates Einstürzende Neubauten and using animal intestines as stage props, but through the years they've mastered the art of guitar-augmented industrial dance music, experimented with thrash metal, and become one of the few modern industrial acts to still create original, cathartic music with electronics. For the uninitiated, Retro is a nice introduction, mixing the razor-edged riffing of KMFDM's latter-day discs Xtort, Nihil, and Angst with the earlier drum-machine barrages of UAIOE and What Do You Know, Deutschland? --Jon Wiederhorn

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I HATE YOU KMFDM, August 3, 2004

By 

J. P. Stephenson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Retro (Audio CD)

My whole life I'ved hated industrial, techno, trans, rap, whatever it is you call that music with all the machines. Some guy I knew from work used to play these guys all the time and I used to give him so much crap for it. I thought songs like "Power" and "Juke Joint Jezebel" Were some of the crappiest things I had ever heard. There just so cheesy! But low and behold after weeks of listening to this emotionally unstable trench coat mafia guy's KMFDM CDs......By god it just grew on me!!! I've only been listening to them for a year and i Just can't get enough. I'm completely obsessed. now he makes fun of me cause I have more KMFDM cds than he does. BEWARE! No matter how much you hate this music the first, second, third, or 27th time you hear it, it will take over your life eventually and you will become as obsessed as I am......spending hundreds of dollars on amazon trying to get all nineteenbajillion of thier CDs and shucking out an extra 20 dollars an order for one day shipping cause you can't wait. I hate you KMFDM, you turned my world upside down!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent compilation., March 29, 2005

By 

Chris Ochman "The Eclectic Listener" (Fredericksburg, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retro (Audio CD)

This is perfect for people who want an introduction to KMFDM. I think that's what it was intended as, and I couldn't agree with the idea behind it better.

You don't have all the best tracks, but you have a sampling of some of the really good stuff ---->"Juke Joint Jezebel" and they don't have the really hard stuff on here either, so you don't scare newbies away with that.

I think this is a perfect introduction to this exciting band. If you're new to the genre, this is a place to start. Buy this album and see if you like it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really good stuff., February 28, 2000

By 

Jake Araujo - See all my reviews

This review is from: Retro (Audio CD)

Now, if you own everysingle KMFDM album, this obviously isn't for you- you can make your own for 2 bucks with a CD burner. If, on the other hand, you only own a few things or mainly got into KMFDM around '98 or so, then this compilation is very good and very helpful. Since I have a couple of the CD's this samples from, I fall in the middle and I still feel it's worth the money. I had never heard Godlike-Doglike before, or More&Faster, and even Vogue, all of which are great songs (though More&Faster may have limited appeal nowadays). This album is a marvellous intro to KMFDM, and it is also a nice way to round out a few holes until you can scrape the money together for several earlier CD's.