I've already covered, in a previous challenge, how I'm not quite attached to the word "hate". Having said that, there is one song that meets today's challenge perfectly. A song that, when first released some nearly ten years ago, was an absolute favorite that - I felt, at the time - touched the very essence of my soul. Today? Yeah, I blow right past it when it comes up on the player, thinking; "what the Hell was I thinking?!
Officially formed in 1990, VNV Nation unleashed - at least to us unwary American Goth types - a torrent of sound know as EBM; Electronic Body Music. From the underground Industrial clubs of the inner cities, to the top of the charts across Europe and, now, sneaking in on the American charts, the band's message - while, at times, delivered with thundering beats and often darker imagery - is generally one of positive hope and fuel for change.
"Joy" appeared on the '95 release, Advance and Follow, and had us hopping mad to hear it again, and again. Sixteen years later (Wait, that can't be right.) and you go up to a DJ in the booth to request this song? Yeah, you get laughed at.
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