That Total Age
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{{Infobox album
| name = That Total Age
| type = Album
| artist = Nitzer Ebb
| cover = NETTA.jpg
| alt =
| released = {{start date|df=yes|1987|5|11}}
| recorded = 1986–1987
| venue =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 48:15
| label =
| producer = Phil Harding
| prev_title = Warsaw Ghetto/So Bright So Strong
| prev_year = 1985
| next_title = Belief
| next_year = 1989
| misc = {{Singles
| name = That Total Age
| type = Album
| single1 = Let Your Body Learn
| single1date = 23 May 1986
| single2 = Murderous
| single2date = 1 November 1986
| single3 = Let Your Body Learn
| single3date = 13 April 1987
| single4 = Join in the Chant
| single4date = 10 August 1987
}}
}}
That Total Age is the debut studio album by the British musical group Nitzer Ebb.{{cite magazine |last1=Comer |first1=M. Tye |title=Reviews |magazine=CMJ New Music Report |date=13 December 1999 |volume=60 |issue=646 |page=23}}{{cite book |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |page=412 |volume=11 |chapter=Industrial Music}} After its release, it spawned the hit single "Join in the Chant", which hit No. 9 on the US dance chart in 1987. The song "Warsaw Ghetto", which was originally released as a standalone single, was included as an extra track on vinyl/cassette by Geffen Records for releases in the USA and Canada. The 2018 remastered releases by Pylon Records also includes this track, in addition to other remixes.
The symbols on the cover of the album stand for "Force is Machine", "Visions of Order", and "Muscle and Hate". Two of these phrases can be heard repeated in the song "Join in the Chant".
Critical reception
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r14166|pure_url=yes}}|title=That Total Age - Nitzer Ebb|website=AllMusic}}
}}
In 2003, Spin included the album on its list of "Essential Industrial".{{cite magazine |last1=Chow |first1=Alexander |title=Essential Industrial |magazine=Spin |date=October 2003 |volume=19 |issue=10 |page=60}}
Track listing
=LP: Mute Stumm 45 (UK)|Geffen/Warner Bros. 24155 =
- "Fitness to Purpose" – 5:00
- "Warsaw Ghetto" – 3:47 (only on Geffen vinyl/cassette releases)
- "Violent Playground" – 3:46
- "Murderous" – 5:40
- "Smear Body" – 5:40
- "Join in the Chant" – 6:05
- "Alarm" – 3:41
- "Let Your Body Learn" – 2:48
- "Let Beauty Loose" – 2:24
- "Into the Large Air" – 4:13
- also released on 2xLP (L STUMM 45)
= CD: Mute Stumm 45 (UK)|Geffen/Warner Bros. 24155=
- "Fitness to Purpose" – 5:03
- "Violent Playground" – 3:49
- "Murderous" – 5:43
- "Smear Body" – 5:49
- "Join in the Chant" – 6:05
- "Alarm" – 3:41
- "Let Your Body Learn" – 2:48
- "Let Beauty Loose" – 2:24
- "Into the Large Air" – 4:13
- "Join in the Chant" (Metal Mix) – 5:16
- "Fitness to Purpose" (Mix Two) – 4:56
- "Murderous" (Instrumental) – 5:04
References
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