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Meaning of the lyrics?

Any source on the meaning of the various lyrics? The ones of "Join in the Chant" sound like they simply chose random words, or is there actually some deeper meaning to them?

Name

what does nitzer ebb mean?

(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 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.

Style

is there a good classification for nitzer ebb in the electronic genre? or should this remain unclassified?

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.

I'd say that their "Basic Pain Procedure" has a huge Post-Punk sound to it.JanderVK (talk) 11:47, 9 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

International success?

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!!!)

Too long

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.

Trees?

Quote: They shared an interest in ... talking to trees

Is that supposed to be a joke? If not, I'd like to see a reference, please. Maikel (talk) 19:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A true fan site...

...but defo no objectively-written article. "perfect electronic album". YMMV. At least 50% of this stuff would need to be rewritten. Oh my. This is gonna be a long shot. -andy 92.229.148.83 (talk) 01:59, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, this thing reads like a cross between a love letter by a devoted fan and a label press release. I could see someone who'd never even heard this band put off by the gushing tone of this article alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.6.247.224 (talk) 20:32, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]