Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Supernaut [Trent Reznor Vocal Version][#] - 1000 Homo DJs
2. No Devotion [LP Version] - Revolting Cocks
3. Beers, Steers and Queers [12" Version] - Revolting Cocks
4. Addiction [LP Version] - Sister Machine Gun
5. Violent Peace [LP Version] - Excessive Force
6. Envoye [12" Version] - Young Gods
7. I Will Refuse [12" Version] - Pailhead
8. Faster Than Light [LP Version] - Lead Into Gold
9. Digital Tension Dementia [LP Version] - Front Line Assembly
10. Your God Is Dead [LP Version] - Mussolini Headkick
11. Now Is the Time [LP Version] - Greater Than One
12. Shit for Brains [LP Version] - Pig
13. Cop Out [LP Version]
14. Atomic Dog [LP Version] - Wreck
15. Elephant's Graveyard [12" Version] - Strike Under

Disc 2:

1. Stowaway [LP Version] - Chris Connelly
2. Come Down Here [LP Version] - Chris Connelly
3. Love's Secret Domain [LP Version] - Coil
4. Snow [Answers Come in Dreams II Version] - Coil
5. Hacker [LP Version] - Clock DVA
6. Virus [12" Version] - KMFDM
7. Godlike [12" Version] - KMFDM
8. Everyday Is Halloween [Original 12" Version] - Ministry
9. Rigor Mortis [LP Version] - A Split Second
10. Butterfly Potion [LP Version] - Foetus
11. Father Don't Cry [LP Version] - Doubting Thomas
12. Nothing Stays the Same [LP Version] - Cyberaktif
13. Words (Of the Dying) [LP Version] - Controlled Bleeding
14. Compulsion [LP Version] - In the Nursery

Disc 3:

1. Rubber Glove Seduction [12" Version] - PTP, Pip
2. No Name, No Slogan [12" Version] - Acid Horse
3. What Time Is Love? [12" Version] - The KLF
4. Silicon Jesus [Duality Mix] - Psykosonik
5. Cuz It's Hot [12" Version] - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
6. Do You Fear (For Your Child) [LP Version] - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
7. Geburt Einer Nation [LP Version] - Laibach
8. God O.D. [EP Version] - Meat Beat Manifesto
9. Mindblower [EP Version] - Fred Giannelli
10. I.C. Water [LP Version] - Psychic TV
11. Me and My Ding Dong [LP Version] - Pankow
12. Name Game [7" Version] - Divine

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #157083 in Music
• Released on: 1994-12-01
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Customer Reviews

I wish I could give this collection 18 stars
I dj'd at college radio stations for 5 years in the late '80s, and was always pleasantly excited when I found a Wax Trax! label in the New bin. (Unfortunately, I usually did my shows in the dark and thought the name was "Wax Traxi" for the longest time!) The label was a mainstay of industrial music, and founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher consistently managed to sign and produce the most exciting musicians of the time -- the many incarnations of dear troubled genius Al Jourgensen, The Young Gods, FLA, Coil, Controlled Bleeding, Doubting Thomas, A Split Second, Lead Into Gold, Psychic TV, Foetus -- they are all here on three great discs packed with music that makes you want to move and feel. Disc One, Track One: Trent Reznor covers Black Sabbath's 'Supernaut' with 1000 Homo DJs -- a version previously unreleased, and then you are zipping through Sister Machine Gun and The Young Gods and oh so many more seminal industrial bands. Divine puts the "fun" in funky with "The Name Game", the label's second release. I was also happy to hear a few groups that had somehow slipped past me the first time around, like Wreck. I had a great time listening to this collection and am still listening to it. You can put in any of the three discs and be happy for a long time.

The packaging is beautiful -- a heavyweight black box covered with hip lettering and disturbing images; three black CD cases containing labeled discs and a listing with artist, cut, time and version information; and a terrific booklet that relates the anecdotal history of Wax Trax! -- it's artistically interesting as well as substantive and entertaining.

If you enjoy industrial music, you cannot go wrong with this incredible collection of the music and people that started it all. And why not put a few bucks into the pockets of the guys who loved the music more than the profits?

Worth the money!
This Chicago-based record label compilation is an awesome chunk of the work done by most of the best industrial bands that came out of N. America and Europe in the 80s. Very interesting and innovative music- fans of industrial music or darker techno should like most of this stuff quite a bit.

The start of indust. music in the chicago underground and US
If I could rate this compilation any higher I would instantly. There is nothing quite like popping in disc 1 and hearing Trent Reznor screaming his lungs out to a Black Sabbath song and knowing that there are 30 more songs after that one. Everything from the classically punk, Strike Under, to the ultimately twisted likes of Pig and Pankow. Not to mention that this compilation holds in it the very reason industrial music has made it as far as it has in the past years. If it wasn't for WaxTrax! and the Chi-town underground.. the only people trying to figure out what KMFDM (Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid) stands for would be a bunch of germans. Long live Alien Jourgensen, TKK, Sister Machine Gun (the list goes on), and finally...JIM AND DANNIE... may they be immortalised as music industry gods.