Strategies Against Architecture, Volume 1 (Strategein Gegen Architekturen)

Einsturzende Neubauten | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 17, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B000003Z6D
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,600 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #65 in Music > Indie Music > Alternative Rock > Goth & Industrial

Track Listings

1. Tanz Debil

2. Schmerzen Mören

3. Mikroben

4. Kreg Den Stadten

5. Zum Tier Machen

6. Draussen Ist Feindlich

7. Stahlversion

8. Schwarz [Live][#]

9. Negativ Nein

10. Kalte Sterne

11. Spaltung [Live][#]

12. U-Haft Muzak

13. Schwarz (Mutieirt)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VCR in my Car, August 23, 2002

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J. Getka (Baltimore, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strategies Against Architecture, Volume 1 (Strategein Gegen Architekturen) (Audio CD)

This is the first EN CD I ever owned and I think it was a very good introduction for me to the band. Most tracks are easily accessible without being too weird or noise-oriented for someone who hasn't heard the band before to get into. I like to listen to this album when I'm going to bed or walking around. It's like dancing in a war, and then getting drunk and falling asleep. I like the fact that I have no idea what any of the lyrics are. Then I can make up my own.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars focus, March 4, 2003

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I X Key "burningfield" (tomorrow) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategies Against Architecture, Volume 1 (Strategein Gegen Architekturen) (Audio CD)

This music is just beautiful. It's very minimal -- too minimal even for the grit that characterized so much of their later music. Most of the songs make use of metal objects for the sounds, but there's also some softer, more watery music. At one point on this cd, they were literally making their music under a bridge, & a train went over. You can hear the train. In 20th century classical music, 2 antithetical compositional ideas were minimalism (which had some feeling of complete control) & aleatory,or just randomness. This cd's minimalism with the train that just happened to go by so they left it seems to me like it could be understood as a synthesis of those 2 views.

It's formative music for them, basic & pure, before their creativity demanded that they add more.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why do conformists bother to "try" new things?, January 7, 2000

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Someone you may or may not agree with (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strategies Against Architecture, Volume 1 (Strategein Gegen Architekturen) (Audio CD)

All I really want to say is that if you're the kind of person that thinks you're open minded because you listen to Jewel AND Korn, then this isn't the album or the band for you. Obviously, if you care about innovation and applying intelligence and a philosophy to a sonic structure, then by all means by this and most other Einstürzende Neubauten releases.