Where's the love?

[zero cool]

I was thinking about artists who don't get the respect or acknowledgement that they should and was wondering if there were others.

Here are the two that came to mind:

Kraftwerk - if you were a DJ in the 70's in the South Bronx you had to have at least one of their records. Their music was/ is constantly being sampled and used and Planet Rock from Afrika Bambata was just a bunch of guys rapping over Trans Europe Express.

Ministry - correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't American industrial music as we know of it start with Ministry? While I like NIN, it irks me to no end when people act as if industrial music did not exist before Trent.

[Arthur Gordon Scratch]

Ah, pop artists who sold millions of records... Yeah, right

Faith Healers, Pram, Seefeel, Disco Inferno, Mint 400, Indoor Life... I could go on for days

[Arthur Gordon Scratch]

Ministry - correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't American industrial music as we know of it start with Ministry? While I like NIN, it irks me to no end when people act as if industrial music did not exist before Trent.

Uh... Foetus, anyone? Also, Chrome, Controlled Bleeding, even Suicide... Also, if you include Northern american band, you have to remember Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, and many others!
Before 86, Ministry was an synthpop band. They achieved success with a million selling elctro-indus-metal record (Psalm 69) in 92 or so, after NIN collaborated with guys from Coil/Throbbing Gristle, Tackhead, Meat Beat Manifesto or The Pop Group...

[zero cool]

Yeah, I remember Ministry's synthpop period (and the poor synth kids getting their heads handed to them during the Land of Rape and Honey tour). I always felt that all these guys, Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Foetus, (the WaxTrax stable of artists) etc were all contemporaries, experimenting and cross pollinating to create industrial music as we know it.

I referred to Ministry because they achieved the most success with it before NIN came into the picture. Pre-NIN Trent did vocals on "Supernaut" for 10,000 Homo DJ's, a collaboration with Jorgensen of Ministry.