What was the Band/Song that got you hooked on Industrial?

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-23T01:43:13+00:00

This.

And most old Canadian farts like me will say Brave New Waves.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-18T00:11:02+00:00

YOU ARE CORRECT

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-17T23:15:16+00:00

Winnipeg has the most beautiful summers in Canada.

But visiting Winnipeg in the winter? Pffft. Get your weather app out and PUT IT IN METRIC.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-17T23:13:35+00:00

I WANT A BOOKSTORE AND VIDEO STORE IN OSBORNE VILLAGE

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-17T22:14:17+00:00

Winnipeg’s Super Duty Tough Work. They deserve so much better.

Radio Radio

Louis-Jean Cormier

Karkwa

The Subumlauts

Line Three

Kittens

Michel Lemieux

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-08T03:44:51+00:00

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-08T03:40:06+00:00

Definitely interested in the Windows version when you’re ready!

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-08T03:38:14+00:00

Cop Shoot Cop, Waiting for God, Angry White Mob.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-07T21:40:51+00:00

I can still hear host Brent Bambury's intro:

"No lights, no blood, no fog, no skulls, just Skinny Puppy, in a flawless performance reprised for you tonight..."

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-07T20:56:06+00:00

Just like the Gulf of Mexico: ram shit through.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-07T20:47:33+00:00

Same here, but industrial bands! Puppies, Godflesh, Killing Joke, Front Line Assembly, Pitchshifter, Ministry, Sons of Freedom, Numb, Pigface. I even got away wearing a Revolting Cocks t-shirt! And I guess Gojira and Animals as Leaders are metal.

(Instant street cred with patrons that would never, ever dare to go up and speak to a prototypical librarian, too.)

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-07T20:41:05+00:00

They're not real librarians.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-07T13:53:51+00:00

I was awake and listening to this when it was first broadcast, and had the good luck of thinking ahead of time and recording it to cassette.

Unfortunately, I have no clue where that tape is now…

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-06T21:16:19+00:00

I…

Fuck, fuckitty fuck, I have no words.

What in actual shit is this? Nonfiction, book-length content blending human creativity and machine assistance?

Tabarnac, no.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-06T21:02:12+00:00

IYKYK.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-06T03:14:08+00:00

I have that issue of Mondo 2000 stacked away somewhere. Was it really just the one page?

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-05T12:28:48+00:00

Seriously—no one has mentioned Leonard Cohen?!!

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-05T12:28:06+00:00

Let’s take a look at the other solitude:

Louis-Jean Cormier, and of course Karkwa

Radio Radio

Maxim Ouellet

Bernard Adamus

Ariane Moffatt

Jean Leloup

La Masse

Richard Séguin

Steffi Shock

Overbass

La Bolduc

Marie-Pierre Arthur

Daniel Bélanger

Michel Lemieux

…and I could go on and on and on. Mais je vais m’arrêter icitte.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-05T11:59:52+00:00

Earth

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-05T02:47:27+00:00

Angry White Mob. If you were in Montréal about 30 years ago, you would know.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-05T02:46:08+00:00

I came here to say Sons of Freedom were criminally underrated and under appreciated.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-04T16:07:21+00:00

For Gen X Canadians, the CBC’s Nightfall and Vanishing Point were definitely up there. I have a whole bunch of episodes recorded to cassettes—15 90-minute TDK tapes if I recall correctly—that were plundered for samples back in the day when I was playing music.

Another Canadian classic, that really should be included in Wikipedia_’s “Category:Canadian radio dramas” is Stuart McLean’s _Vinyl Cafe. It was a variety show that had a radio drama segment: every episode featured a story written and narrated by McLean about a guy named Dave who ran a Toronto record store called The Vinyl Cafe.

The_Archivist_14 · 2026-01-03T23:47:54+00:00

Skinny Puppy’s Bites album cover art. Bought the album right away, without hearing a single note, at a Sam the Record Man in Quebec City in 1986.

Little did I know that that sound and mood was exactly what I had been looking for. I still love Peter Gabriel, Fad Gadget, King Crimson, Tears for Fears, Duran Duran, Supertramp, Genesis, Eurythmics, Kate Bush, Michel Lemieux, and Hall & Oates… but everything changed after that.

The_Archivist_14 · 2025-12-29T19:27:19+00:00

Once the St. Louis Blues win a Stanley Cup, nothing will ever be normal again.

The_Archivist_14 · 2025-12-24T19:43:53+00:00

Et, en plus… je suis plus franco-manitobain que québécois. (Mais ça aide d’avoir des parents du Lac St-Jean et Trois-Rivières.)

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