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Einstürzende Neubauten: Fünf Auf Der Nach Oben Offenen Richterskala (Some Bizzare/Relativity)

Howard Wuelfing, Spin, November 1987

AT THE CORE of the Neubies' schtick is a knee-jerk rejection of every last element considered essential to rock music: guitars, drums, blues-based chord changes, lyrics auf English (let alone concerning cars and girls). Still, their music sings in your gut just like 'Satisfaction' did. They have successfully taken rock's cannibalistic one-upmanship to the only subsequent stage imaginable at this point in the game.

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