Talk:Nitzer Ebb
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what does nitzer ebb mean?
- also, is there a good classification for nitzer ebb in the electronic genre? or should this remain unclassified?
- (Nitz-er Ebb) is also an accepted way to pronounce their name. During their hayday, they would alternate between the two pronuncations at random.
- Nitzer ebb are considered to be ebm (electronic body music) urghh. - I'm always at odds with describing in such vague terms - some of their stuff does sound like EBM, or hard techno, or electro, or elctro blues, or rock, or synth pop, or pop music. It just sounds like Nitzer Ebb - lots of acts try very hard to sound like NE, but never quite get there.
- Was Big Hit really an international success? I thought it was reviewed badly at the time and assumed they'd been kicked off their label because of it. Certain element of truth in this - you probably can, just, describe it as an 'international success'. Of sorts. Yes it performed badly, yes it cost Mute an awful lot of cash, and yes it probably accelarated the deteriation of the band. But there was a buzz around the release (misplaced, yes, but definately a buzz), they toured extensively, and they were even given editorial time on MTV to promote the album (120 mins if I recall!!!)
- Nitzer ebb doesn't mean anything, they made up it up.
- In creating their band in the early eighties, Douglas Mccarthy and Vaughn "Bon" Harris played around with various letters of the alphabet to create their made up name. They consider Ts and Zs to be pretty cool, so they came up with Nitzer.
This section: "In late 2005, it was announced that McCarthy..." needs to be reworked, that sentence is too long and the paranthesized sections are too long too.
