Seek, you're making my argument for me.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, 10 or 15 years removed from these cds, it's really really easy to write them off as "awful" or "trite," but when they came out, that was the sound of the day. The exact same way much of the stuff on Warp and just about every other label is the sound of today and 10 to 15 years from now we'll all look back to the turn of the century and just as easily write off the cds that we love today.
quoted 12 lines Vampire Rodents = Awful>Vampire Rodents = Awful
>Mentallo and the Fixer = Awful
>Not Breathing = Awful
>Pigface = Mostly Awful
>Dead Voices on Air = Terrible
>Front Line Assembly = Trite
>Foetus (didn't Cleo put out a few from Jim?) = No: Thirlwell is way too smart to hook up with a
>lousy label
>Leatherstrip = Boring
>Diatribe = name says enough
>16 Volt (the first album at least) = awful
>Sister Machine Gun (ditto) = ditto