Got into them in 199 when my sister said that the Silence is Sexy album was plain weird and stupid, had to check it out and was blown away. Far away from their noisier 1980's (even though they were always something of a pop band) but I still love that album and it opened my mind for non-musical objects in creating music. The whol aesthetics, with broken and discarded objects, mic'ed up rocks and glass bottles; I'd credit EN completely for getting me into industrial and experimental music. I back-tracked from Silence, and haven't kept up with their later works. The liner-notes always fscinated e as well early on, with ther details of exactly what instruments and objects were played. NNNAAAMMM with the engines for example, and the brutal rhythm of Headcleaner. Which forgives the cheesy love songs ("only she's going to see the light first" whatever it's called, from Tabula Rasa, is abysmal for example).
One of EN's biggest acheivments I suppose is how they've elevated industrial music methods to a higher level of appreciation outside the scene, without becoming a novelty, "look at this crazy noise, can you believe people listen to it?" like Merzbow. EN is high culture, Blixa is a poet et c.
