Help Us Decide: Is This Forgotten KMFDM Album Worth Your Time?
Give Naïve/Hell to Go a listen and join the debate
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a second-chance album. A record that got erased, then resurrected, then lost again—and now, thanks to one dedicated board member, it’s finally getting the attention it deserves.
Back in 1990, KMFDM dropped Naïve/Hell to Go—and immediately, everything went sideways. An unlicensed sample sent the label into legal panic mode, the album got recalled and deleted, and the whole thing was basically scrubbed from existence. But the band wasn’t done with it. They went back into the studio, re-recorded chunks of the album in 1993, and released this revised version as a second attempt at getting it right.
Then fate played another trick. When TVT/Wax Trax went under in 2001, Naïve/Hell to Go went out of print. It’s been stuck in digital purgatory ever since—available but obscure, influential but invisible, the kind of album that people whisper about in niche circles and nobody else knows exists.
Here’s where you come in.
Thanks to a pick by Ian McIver. on our Board of Directors, we’re revisiting this deeply weird, deeply compelling piece of industrial rock history. Ian even dug up a copy to ensure we’re hearing it right. And now we want to hear from you.
Give Naïve/Hell to Go a proper listen. Let it sit with you. Then tell us what you think—does it deserve a legacy or a footnote? Vote in the poll, leave a comment, and join the conversation.
Want to be the one who picks next month’s album? Join the Dig Me Out Board of Directors and get an invite to the podcast where we dig into everything that makes a record you love worth talking about.
This is what Dig Me Out is all about: finding the forgotten, questioning the overlooked, and letting the community decide what matters. So spin it, share your take, and let’s figure out if KMFDM deserves another shot.
What do you think—is Naïve/Hell to Go the missing link or an artifact best left in the past?