Four legs good, but no legs best.
You're coming in halfway though a conversation. GWB re-enacting old Gang Of Four records (He'd send in the army) has reminded me to dust it off somewhat.
... such DIJ as I've been subjected to has struck me as distinctly average, so I don't have too much of a problem with not being best impressed with their attachment to themes of a National Socialist persuasion.
Not that musical wossname should be used as an excuse for same, of course. Although it's not like a couple of pop-songs are going to turn me into a fascist...
The thing is, I can't for the life of me understand why INDUSTRAIL(tm) and imagery of a Martial or Totalitarian Nature are so closely linked. Now, you can call me a spineless Guardian-reading pinko, but I tend to think that it's basically OK for, say, the band of the Coldstream Guards to march up and down in shiny uniforms to the strident beat of martial music; but when a mob of clueless children try it, they need a bloody good hiding and/or a series of illustrated lectures regarding the nature of a fascist or totalitarian society and the likely disposition of their chosen
subculture should such a terrible thing come to pass. (again)
[Hint: Newrocks won't do you any good in a work-camp, fucko]
I still don't understand why they do it. When I were a lad, it were all proper industrial round here, and it were perpetrated by people who lived in squats and believed in collective action and were about the complete antithesis of the uniforms-and-marching-about-brigade.
... And because at one stage the INDUSTRAIL(tm) Standard Video was full of blokes in gasmasks and crappy footage of Soviet military parades carefully cut so the squaddies seemed to be marching in time to the crappy drum-machine programming and shouted-substitute-for-singing. FLA, front and centre.
Maybe.
(And don't get me started on the sort of Cold Meat Industry bands who name themselves after terrorist/fascist organisations and use that kind of 'transgressive' malarkey to peddle popsongs. Ok, resolutely not popsongs, but I trust you get my general drift. It's as much about pissing off your parents as Marilyn Manson. Crunts.)