You know, sometimes you just end up getting yelled at no matter what you do. Well, Blixa Bargeld is more than willing to accommodate in that department. And he'll screech, scream, and caterwaul at you too. Occasionally, just to make sure you are paying attention, he whispers (ominously). (That he does so in German renders his harangues all the more perplexing if you don't speak the language. If you do, well, good for you.) All the while, he and the rest of the Neubauten Gang flail, pound, scrape and clang with all the subtlety of jackhammers and power tools. (Okay, so they actually USE such implements.) Which isn't to say this is all just a bunch of structureless noise - - far from it. Their take on "Je T'aime" (phonetically retitled "Jet 'M"), in fact, is almost tender; no wonder it's less than 1:30 long and an instrumental, sort of. You might not be inclined to dance to any of this, but it definitely makes for compelling listening. Far from any intended nihilism, far from sounding as if they are gleefully heralding any apocalypse, Einsturzende Neubauten on KOLLAPS actually sounds more like a crew of intrepidly industrious construction workers with a particularly unreasonable foreman. And that's what you get for listening, so there. Hor' mit ein Sense of Humor. Mark Champion.
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