Album · Nitzer Ebb
That Total Age by Nitzer Ebb
That Total Age is an album by Nitzer Ebb, released in 1987. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Join in the Chant”, on 6 lists with a best position of #129.
That Total Age, Nitzer Ebb's debut album, came out through Geffen in 1987, and it hits like a drill sergeant with a drum machine. The group had started out in 1982 as Essex school friends: Bon Harris on vocals, programming, synths and drums, Douglas McCarthy on vocals and guitar and David Gooday on drums, working under a name they'd built by cutting up and shuffling letters until it sounded vaguely German without being German at all.
This is electronic body music at its most martial: stiff, pounding beats, sequencers grinding like factory machinery and barked, sloganeering vocals. The cryptic symbols on the cover stand for three blunt phrases about force, order and muscle, two of which get hammered home in "Join in the Chant", which went to No. 9 on the US dance chart in 1987. American and Canadian vinyl and cassette pressings also tacked on the standalone single "Warsaw Ghetto". Belief came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from That Total Age on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Join in the Chant | 6 | #129 | – | 1991–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.