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Title: Big Hit. Edition: Album. Format: CD. Record Label: Mute. Condition: New. No Of Discs: 1. Language: English.

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Product Identifiers

Record Label
Mute
UPC
5016025611188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
13050198047

Product Key Features

Artist
Dr. Know, Nitzer Ebb
Format
CD
Release Year
1995
Style
Industrial
Release Title
Big Hit
Run Time
43 mins 17 seconds
Genre
Rock

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Additional information
Nitzer Ebb: Bon Harris (vocals, guitar, bass, programming, percussion); Douglas McCarthy (vocals, guitar, programming); Jason Payne (drums, percussion, programming). Additional personnel: Flood (programming, guitar). Producers: Flood (tracks 1-5, 7-10); Al Clay (track 6). Recorded between August 1992 and March 1994. All songs written by Douglas McCarthy and Bon Harris. By the time the follow-up to Ebbhead surfaced, Trent Reznor had decisively reset the boundaries for what industrial was in the popular mind, with help provided by sometimes-Nitzer Ebb producer Flood on The Downward Spiral. Nearly every industrial/electronic-affiliated act in the milieu that Reznor had first come to prominence in had to react in one way or another, and while Big Hit is first and foremost a Nitzer Ebb album, it's hard not to hear it as in part a response to Nine Inch Nails' decisive success. It's much more of a rock album than the band had ever recorded before -- for the accompanying tour, guitars were used on-stage for the first time -- and Flood's return on production made for a further connection. Perhaps the oddest touch was on lead single "Kick It"; besides Douglas McCarthy all-too-clearly trying to ape Reznor's lyrical and vocal style, there's also guest guitar from, of all folks, Bad Brains' Dr. Know. The end result made for a somewhat indecisive note for the band to end their career on; while in ways the band showed continual progression and development, that was inevitably shadowed by other forces. Though scattershot, Big Hit does have its definite moments, including a killer one-two opening. "Cherry Blossom" has McCarthy whispering on the verses and singing with more control, but still forcefully, on the chorus, while the moody bass crawl at the heart of the arrangement is one of Bon Harris' best such efforts. "Hear Me Say," meanwhile, shows off some fine metal bashing courtesy of the newly expanded lineup, McCarthy's vocals comparatively restrained on the anthemic chorus. Oddly enough, if there's a key point about the album, it's that the rhythms -- always the band's best point -- often take second place to lead melodies or orchestrations. Sometimes it works quite well, though: check out the guitar-as-rhythm on "I Thought" or the haunting drones and subtle beats starting "Living out of a Bag." ~ Ned Raggett
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Option (7-8/95, p.125) - "...Flood's production...gives even the hardest elements a smoky warmth...on the whole BIG HIT lives up to its title..." Melody Maker (5/20/95, p.34) - "...The obvious: serenely bad-attitude bad-trip totalitarian non-rhythms cast in pig-iron, circuit boards and crushing volume...The theoretical: mathematical formulas of unthinking physicality reproduced in sound. The historical: once, NE were simply a shout and a row of shiny chests...aimed dead straight at blank triumph. The update: that's what they're like now, too..."
Distribution
MSI Music Distribution
Number of Audio Channels
Stereo
Number of discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA

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