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- Among the most successful of these composed industrial songs was Merle Travis ' Sixteen Tons, first recorded in 1946, but made probably the most commercially successful industrial song when it was a major hit for 'Tennessee' Ernie Ford in 1955.
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- Ministry – “Just One Fix” Backdropped by staticky guitars and a cacophony of noise, Al Jourgensen pulled no punches on “Just One Fix.” It’s one of the band’s most known songs and with drugged-out audio shouts from Sid and Nancy (“Never trust a junkie!”)
- Rammstein – “Du Hast” Rammstein have put out a number of memorable tracks over the last 30 years; that said, their signature song – “Du Hast” from 1997’s Sehnsucht – remains at the top of the list.
- Pierre Schaeffer – “Etude aux chemins de fer” (1948) As World War II drew to a close, the radio and recording studios of France afforded Pierre Schaffer a unique opportunity to intersect his interests in sonic art and science.
- Cromagnon – “Caledonia” (1969) Pounding drums, radio wave static, sampled orchestral music, fuzz guitar, bagpipes(!) and something approaching a black metal vocal hiss—in 1969 there was essentially no frame of reference for this combination of sounds, certainly not one so heavy and intense.
- Suicide – “Frankie Teardrop” (1977) Although not an industrial band per se, the proto-electronic darkness of Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop” is a template for early Industrial music, its experimental leanings and harrowing intensity.
- Throbbing Gristle – “Hamburger Lady” (1978) Formed out of performance art troupe COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle coined the term “industrial” but they didn’t limit what that entailed, their early recordings ranging from noise to sound collage, disco, synth-laden kosmische and exotica.
People (and in many cases several people) picked your songs out and voted for them out of the thousands and thousands of “electronic” songs that have been released over the past 37+ years. Think about that, your song (or songs) have made the top 4000 list of “Industrial” songs of all time out of all of the songs that have been released ...
Jul 20, 2023 · Consequence ranks the 50 best industrial songs of all time, including tracks by Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and more. See our staff list.
Mar 5, 2012 · ID:UD’s Top 100 Industrial Songs Ballot 1. Coil, “The Anal Staircase” (100) Our number one represents a lot of things for us, and for I Die: You Die as a whole. Firstly, our profound respect for the legacy of Coil, both as artists and figures in Our Thing.
Among the most successful of these composed industrial songs was Merle Travis' Sixteen Tons, first recorded in 1946, but made probably the most commercially successful industrial song when it was a major hit for 'Tennessee' Ernie Ford in 1955.
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