YMMV / Einstürzende Neubauten

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The last line of "3 Thoughts".
• Common Knowledge:
  • Everybody knows "The Garden" is a tribute to Arvo Part... except it isn't. While Blixa has acknowledged the similarities, he says they are coincidental.
  • It's well-known that the band started dressing more formally due to the fall of the Berlin Wall... except that's not the case. Ignoring that 3/5 of them didn't change their fashions at all, the ones who did change things up didn't do so for political reasons.
  • Everyone knows Blixa isn't a vegetarian anymore... except that's not true. He did try reintegrating meat into his diet while living in China, but he went back to his previous ways after developing kidney problems and leaving China. Of course, that's assuming you considered him a vegetarian in the first place—he always ate seafood.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: F.M. Einheit, who was a percussionist for Einstürzende Neubauten from 1981 to 1995 and collaborated with music artists such as KMFDM.
• Fan Nickname: Erin Zhu, the webmaster of neubauten.org, is often called "Webbie" by Supporters. Her husband, Blixa, is sometimes called "BB".
• Fanon Discontinuity: Several fans and media outlets quietly have little-to-no knowledge of Einstürzende Neubauten's 1980 debut Stahlmuzik and list the band's sophomore effort Kollaps as its first major release, despite the band's overall discography featuring 12 studio albums.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • After the disestablishment of The Birthday Party, plenty of Nick Cave fans knew that Blixa Bargeld was a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds until 2003. Neubauten's and Cave's respective fan bases do listen to both of their music.
  • With Kraftwerk. Both bands are experimental and pioneering acts from West Germany (albeit with rather different approaches to music). It's common for people to get into one band through the other.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "The Garden" is a somewhat melancholic song on its own. If you take into account that it was probably one of the first tracks Neubauten did after F.M. Einheit's departure^note he left the band while Blixa was on holiday, and Blixa would have killed Ende Neu as a result were it not for financial obligations to finish it, you've got yourself a full-on Tear Jerker.
  • "Zampano" is about a stalker (with or without a crush). It's a dark, intense song on its own. Then you learn that it was based on Blixa's own experiences with a stalker (one he blames himself for having). Suddenly, the song becomes even darker.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Critics have cited Neubauten's work in ''Andi'' as being one of the few good things—if not the only good thing—about the play.
• LGBT Fanbase: A very sizeable one. It would be easier to list off the reasons they shouldn't have one, but suffice it to say that an androgynous, gender-subverting singer who kisses people of all genders and has referred to himself as nonbinary^note admittedly, whether or not "Seven Screws" was intended as a coming-out song is a controversial topic among fans, but a press release for ''Alles in Allem'' suggests it is is going to bring in a queer fanbase. Blixa, for his part, is aware of this fanbase, and is glad Neubauten's music is empowering to the community.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Andrew's heterosexuality.^note In the biography No Beauty Without Danger, Alex all-but says outright that Blixa and F.M. had a romantic relationship, comparing it to his own with Christiane F. and calling it a "love story". Andrew immediately and intensely denies this, saying all of the Neubauten are either "real men" (the official English translation) or "straight wretches" (a popular fan translation), and that Blixa and F.M. were probably definitely not in love... Not That There's Anything Wrong with That. (For what it's worth, F.M. said that while he wouldn't call it a "love story", he was "attracted" to Blixa (and everyone else in the band). Blixa has remained mum on the subject.)
  • "[throws pots and pans down the stairs] I love Einstürzende Neubauten"^note a reference to the band's Bizarre Instruments and chaotic sound
• Nightmare Fuel: Most of their material can be this, especially their earlier works
• SweetDreamsFuel
  • "Die Interimsliebenden"/"The Interimlovers"
  • "Salamandrina"
  • "Stella Maris"
  • "Sonnenbarke"
  • "Youme & Meyou"
  • "Nagorny Karabach"
  • "Alles in Allem"
  • "Seven Screws"

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