In the same vein as the Electronic albums that should be heard... thread, this here's a thread for essential INDUSTRIAL albums. It originated from wanting to add all these albums to the "electronic" thread, but realizing that they wouldn't really fit. So industrial, possibly may favorite genre, gets its own thread!

Here's a list of what I think are essential industrial albums, base on what I've heard. (I'm leaving out many industrial albums that I like, for the sake of brevity.)

Cabaret Voltaire : The Living Legends...
Chrome : Half Machine Lip Moves
Download : The Eyes Of Stanley Pain
Front 242 : 05:22:09:12 Off
Front 242 : Front By Front
Front Line Assembly : Tactical Neural Implant
KMFDM : Naïve
Meat Beat Manifesto : 99%
Ministry : The Land Of Rape And Honey
Ministry : The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Ministry : Twitch
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult : Confessions Of A Knife
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult : Kooler Than Jesus
Nine Inch Nails : Broken
Nine Inch Nails : Pretty Hate Machine
Nitzer Ebb : That Total Age
Noise Unit : Strategy Of Violence
Revolting Cocks : Big Sexy Land
Skinny Puppy : Bites
Skinny Puppy : Last Rights
Skinny Puppy : Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Skinny Puppy : Remission [EP]
Skinny Puppy : Too Dark Park
Throbbing Gristle : 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Throbbing Gristle : D.O.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

What are YOUR picks for essential industrial albums?

Before you post, I urge you to check AMG first to make sure the band is, in fact, industrial. If it doesn't have the word "industrial" in the "styles" section for that band, please think twice about adding it to this thread. (For example, I always think of Lords Of Acid's "Lust" when I think of industrial albums I like, but they aren't exactly industrial, so I didn't list them. But Marilyn Manson, at least the early albums, would count because they're listed as "industrial-metal" in AMG.)

Gridlock's "Trace", as well as "Further"

Söldnergeist: Spur 2
Throbbing Gristle: The Third and Final Report
Sutcliffe Jugend: We Spit On Their Graves
Lustmord: A document of early accoustic and tactical experimentation by Lustmord
Brighter Death Now: Innerwar
Konstruktivists: Psycho Genetika
Le Syndicat: Sardanapale
Esplendor Geometrico: Nador
Dive: Concrete Jungle
Eric Lunde: When You Wish Upon A Scar

= cd shortlist

Einstürzende Neubauten "Strategies Against Architecture 80'-83'"

Pailhead - Trait ep
Electric Hellfire club - Burn baby burn

can Atari Teenage Riot stuff go in here? or is that more Punk Electronic stuff?

Ministry - Psalm 69
KMFDM - Nihil
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Front Line Assembly - Epitaph

Here are some more essential industrial albums to ponder. To be honest, I haven't heard a lot of these, but they're all more or less considered industrial classics. Most of these have been around for longer than 15 years. The titles alone are intriguing as hell, aren't they?

23 Skidoo : Seven Songs
Cabaret Voltaire : The Crackdown
Cabaret Voltaire : Red Mecca
Clock DVA : Advantage
Clock DVA : Buried Dreams
Coil : Horse Rotorvator
Coil : Love's Secret Domain
Controlled Bleeding : Best Of Controlled Bleeding
Current 93 : Dogs Blood Rising
D.A.F. : Alles Ist Gut
D.A.F. : Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen
Die Krupps : Metalmorphosis Of Die Krupps: 81-92
Digital Poodle : Work Terminal
Dissecting Table : Human Breeding
Einstürzende Neubauten : Drawings of Patient O.T.
Einstürzende Neubauten : Halber Mensch
Foetus : Nail
Foetus : Thaw
Laibach : Laibach
Laibach : Opus Dei
Leather Nun : Slow Death
Monte Cazazza : The Worst Of Monte Cazazza
Non : Easy Listening For Iron Youth
Non : God & Beast
Nurse With Wound : Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table
Pig : A Poke In The Eye With A Sharp Stick
Severed Heads : City Slab Horror
Sleep Chamber : Sentinel Serenade
SPK : Auto Da Fe
SPK : Leichenschrei
Test Dept. : Beating The Retreat
Whitehouse : Erector

(The essential Throbbing Gristle albums have already been mentioned.)

damn horakhti, I have most of the albums you listed.

front 242 off is definitely better than up evil.

Strategy Against Architecture II should be added to the list as well.

Re: can Atari Teenage Riot stuff go in here? or is that more Punk Electronic stuff?

Are ATR industrial? I would say "nuh uh". But, it's open for interpretation I guess. For example, I don't think Filter, Stabbing Westward, God Lives Underwater and all that other guitar-driven mainstream dreck is industrial at all. However, they have been labelled as such. In comparison, ATR are way more in line with the industrial aesthetic.

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