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Originally Posted by looking glass spectacle
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1990:
meat beat manifesto - 99%
my life with the thrill kill kult - confessions of a knife
1991:
pigface - gub
front 242 - tyranny for you
1992:
frontline assembly - tactical neural implant
kmfdm - money
all six of these are flawless albums and far superior to anything Atari Teenage Riot ever turned out. just sayin....
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well, in defense of atr, when i heard them they were so much more aggressive and noisier than all the industrial bands i had heard at that point. plus, while most industrial and electronica was concerned with super sync'ed samples and the ultimate, most expensive synths, atari teenage riot were doing their shit while sampling riffs from nirvana, bad brains and slayer using presets on their drum machines and just letting it loose. it's the attitude mostly that makes me love atr above tons of electronic artists, but they also could make amazing anthems with their limited means.
60 second wipeout is another story, that's so accomplished, amazing breakbeats with textures inspired by the incapacitants and merzbow.
what bothered me back in those days about industrial is that it sounded really cheap, like mostly they just used skinny puppy dance numbers with ministry ragers and having guitars and synths all over. to me, atr didn't have much precedent, but almost all of them sounded like that old dancy synthy industrial mixed with the heavy, tortured industrial metal of the late 80's.
having said that, i dig a lot of those bands you mentioned and i agree one or two should have been on the list; i think the list has way too much pavement and beck on it.
still, i think we're still too close to the 90's to really give it a good evaluation.