His dancing gave me an Ian Curtis vibe and I realized this is one possible sound Joy Divison might have ended up with a few years down the road. Sparse, beaty electronic music with a cold post-punk feel!

@Nenko_Music

2 жыл бұрын

so dam true my friend :)

@tyronewarren6662

2 жыл бұрын

🗣 *As in ….New Order!*

@verapamil07

2 жыл бұрын

New Order?

@indie0078

2 жыл бұрын

Verdade

@jzen1455

2 жыл бұрын

That was my initial reaction. I didn't realize Front 242 went back to the early 80s. I was tripping out when I first saw this video with how much it sounded like Joy Division or New Order. He's like an alternate universe Ian Curtis in this video

What a timeless track. Listening to this one for over 3 decades. Gosh... 242 were so ahead of their time!

@keasyman7084

2 жыл бұрын

They were good but they're very much not ahead of their time as they copy Simple Minds.

@SaschaPallenberg

2 жыл бұрын

@@keasyman7084 nope :)

@keasyman7084

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaschaPallenberg OK. Whatever. But they do.

@SaschaPallenberg

2 жыл бұрын

@@keasyman7084 electronic music started more than 15 years earlier... maybe Kraftwerk would be a good start for you to explore the history of it. Simple Minds early minimal/cold wave days are not even a chapter of their developments considering that we are only talking about a few songs that were still heavily influenced by the French/German/UK Flexipop/Minimal/Coldwave scene. The way Front 242 sampled, used sequencers and started to raise the speed into bpms never heard of before gave future Techno producers a new breading ground. As much as I love the Simple Minds they were no pioneers when it comes to electronic music. 242 were!

@keasyman7084

2 жыл бұрын

@@SaschaPallenberg They weren't? OK. I don't think you've actually listened to them in all honesty.

I first saw them live in 1984, it was extremely loud and I loved it! I've lost track at how many times I was at their live shows later.

Do you feel almost uncontrollable urge to dance and incredible increase of energy while listening to this. I know I do.

@VNVgirl

6 жыл бұрын

Don't bother me .. im dancing

@moondoggieist

5 жыл бұрын

Most definitely !!

@daehnihc

4 жыл бұрын

Initiate robo-menade protocol

@didier354

4 жыл бұрын

Dancing to this while being drunk or MDMA is the best haha

@xcatsruleeverythingaroumdmex

4 жыл бұрын

Didier Schultzy Please invite me next time? =)

This is shockingly perfect.

My all time favourite tune from these guys and don't crash. I was lucky enough to see them live all the way back in 1986 and they were awesome.

@rqoweuyqp

Жыл бұрын

We'll always be remembered ... We'll always be dismembered ...

@te9591

Жыл бұрын

@@rqoweuyqp no flowers for you.

Have a lovely EBM day everyone

FRONT242 are my BEATLES .....

@spiritwardiaries

5 жыл бұрын

Yah. Was 16 when I went to my first dance club and finally was dancing to them outside of my bedroom lol

@Chris_WG

5 жыл бұрын

Saw them at the Warfield in San Francisco with my best buddy Jeremy in 91 or around there. Was so damn cool! These guys are my guys for sure. Always 242!!!

@kinetikx

4 жыл бұрын

I mean, that's kind of a stretch. The Beatles actually evolved from album to album. Front 242 just kind of remixed their way through songs. Most of which just recycled beats and synths. Don't get me wrong, I love Front 242 but let's not go crazy with comparing them to one of the best bands in history.

@jonnywas9641

4 жыл бұрын

kinetikx - I'm glad to know Appreciation; as the Crazy Going the Comparison of The Lets not, an Assuring the opportunitypportunity to be able to see the opportunity of Being Born of the Feline nature of of Existing.

@MrBeatcreep

4 жыл бұрын

Front should be the Beatles for the Beatles 😎

First song I ever heard of them.I was absolutely fascinated and still I am.

@UsoundsGermany

3 жыл бұрын

I heard "Body TO Body" on "This is EBM" first, there was also my 1st Skinny Puppy or first EBM at all, after someone told me this was basically a darker version of Depeche, so I was intrigued (was DM fan)

@angelwild9145

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, I have been a loyal fan of theirs for more years than I’d like to remember!!(I don’t want to show my age haha)! Yes, they are pretty special & incredible! (I am a mainstream music hater)!😀

@martykey1574

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t crash was the first track I heard followed by this both brilliant tracks.

@DarkerSideOfMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Yea. I'm too

@tingeling5663

2 жыл бұрын

@@martykey1574 Yes, Take One and Don’t Crash ❤️

I had not seen this in years !! There was a dark club called 600 North in Daytona beach in the early to late 80's , I remember moshing to this ,those were the finest times of my life ! This, watching it again brought a tear of satisfaction ,to know that this is still getting likes and that they are the fathers of EBM !!

@GoTorino

5 жыл бұрын

Clifford Hutchinson You should come out to Independent Bar in downtown Orlando on Saturday nights.

@daisaigai7

4 жыл бұрын

They are not the fathers of EBM. Maybe they made the term popular. But it all started with DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses. Body to Body was already inspired by the music of DAF. It has a DAF bassline and some German Krautrock elements.

@daisaigai7

4 жыл бұрын

@Matt Gray Only idiots don't know DAF. And the first wave of Industrial music started in the mid-'70s. Most of the music from the '80s had nothing to do with it. Do you think Ministry was Industrial? Or KMFDM? Then you must even more stupid than i thought. Bands like Ministry and Skinny Puppy started as SynthPop groups and added some noisy elements. That's it.

@FixedFace

3 жыл бұрын

@Matt Gray ich kenne daf UND d.a.f

Love the ending 🥰 Front 242 created my favourite albums of all time. Evil Off and Up Evil are timeless and far ahead of anything even now

His moves are actually pretty original. This band broke new ground, and influenced everyone afterwards.

@papaonta

3 жыл бұрын

some of them are Prodigy and NIN

@santyricon

3 жыл бұрын

Joy division? 🤔

@vincenzollamas

2 жыл бұрын

he was very influenced by Joy Division

@davidalvarado7186

2 жыл бұрын

Might have been influenced by joy divisions. Ian Curtis …unknown pleasures dropped in 1979…

@gregraines1599

2 жыл бұрын

@@santyricon First thing I thought.

Like time travel. THIS song was so ahead of its time.I remember those days so well.

I remember when I was a teenager living in southern Maryland and ordering Front 242, The Neon Judgement, and The Legendary Pink Dots via the Wax Trax! Records catalogue. I'm 51 now and God I miss those days/times.

@wardvandecotte9253

2 ай бұрын

Front 242, The Neon Judgement and Tuxedomoon in concerthall Vooruit in Ghent (Belgium) back in 1986. Was one of the best nights of my life.

I cannot stop watching this over and over times the rest of my life

@factus6

3 жыл бұрын

2 years later and I cannot get enough.. it is an all time favorite

@factus6

11 ай бұрын

still listening

One of my greatest Concerts ever... ...25 years before... ...I'm not getting old:-D

@moondoggieist

5 жыл бұрын

As my Dad would put it ...29 and holding .

THIS is why the internet and mostly KZread are so awesome! I bought Front 242's "Back Catalogue" CD way back in 1989/1990. I paid $21.99 for the CD. (inflation adjusted probably $35 today) I wore that CD out and loved this song. I still have the CD in fact. So cool to see a video for it! Thanks for uploading.

@alexyang8440

3 жыл бұрын

I had that CD too. such a great collection of EPs.

@emmetdonnelly2072

9 ай бұрын

Great comment❤️

30 years ago, Belgium act FRONT 242 coined the term “EBM - Electronic Body Music - to describe the musical of their second album “No Comment” (Another Side/1984), inspired by a variety of artists such as Suicide, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Kraftwerk, Wire or Joy Division. In a similar fashion to the germano-hispanic combo Liaisons Dangereuses or D.A.F., the band distilled a blend of disjointed electronic bass lines, steep minimalist rhythms and mechanical vocals chanted with a martial attitude, perfectly succeeding at the time to encompass and blend icy cold wave with disco groove on an industrial background. The original EBM (which, when I was a teenager, was called “Techno Music”) raged all over the 80’s indie clubs. Chrislo Haas's productions made the genre evolve towards more hard and rhythmic sounds. But it started to lose its appeal with the arrival of the more commercial sounding New Beat (1988) and the more aggressive “Aggrepo” (1990). Although, around 1987, English duo “Nitzer Ebb” carried the torch with panache, signing its album “That Total Age” on Mute Record and, just like Front 242 had done before them, landing a spot as opening act for a Depeche Mode tour. At the same time when electronic music reached the masses in the mid 90’s rave parties, the domination of machines in FRONT 242 music started to wane with the introduction of guitars and drum kits as early as 1993. Disappointed, the bulk of their fans felt betrayed by those changes and the arrival of US crossover bands from Chicago and Wax Trax label (Ministry, Revolting Cocks, NIN) or Vancouver/Canada (Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly). Totally hackneyed since the end of the 90’s following the appropriation of the EBM name by unscrupulous German record labels which flooded the market with increasingly mediocre bands producing cliché dark-techno-trance soup (VNV Nation, Suicide Commando, Combichrist...), the genre was eventually totally discredited in the eyes of purists. Like me, many of them turned to french producers such as Thomas P. Heckmann, The Hacker, Terence Fixmer, David Carretta, Millimetric, Gesaffelstein, Maelstrom, all emerging from the Techno scene and who remained faithful to the European roots of electronic music in general and EBM in particular. Now totally ruined by thousands of retarded bands eructing stupid onomatopoeia over bass lines heard thousands of times, the EBM genre has wilted over the first decade of the century, losing both its futurist and visionary aspects to turn into some low-end electro-punk for beer drinkers in Doc Martens. At the dawn of yet another revival from deep USA (Youth Code, High Functioning Flesh, //Tense//) let’s render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's: EBM is essentially Front 242, DAF, early Neon Judgement, Absolute Body Control and Nitzer Ebb! All the others bands are just pale imitations or pure plagiarism of their aforementioned elders. Pedro (Unknown Pleasures Records) hivmusic1.bandcamp.com

@kds242

6 жыл бұрын

Unknown Pleasures Records don't put Suicide Commando in your shit list with VNV Nation and Combichrist. And Frontline Assembly has been whack since the 90s? Now that's a fucking riot.

@juliaj8020

6 жыл бұрын

VNV Nation is basically British, just living in Germany. Most good German EBM evolved into NDH. Agreed, a lot went to pot at the end of the 90's, but there was still good NDH if you looked hard enough. Everyone kind of disbanded. Personally, to kds242, I think FLA has sucked since the 90's, yes.

@leifilerkaka

6 жыл бұрын

"The term electronic body music was coined by Ralf Hütter of the German electronic band Kraftwerk in 1978 to explain the more physical sound of their album The Man-Machine." Scissored and glued from wikipedia.

@teagueman100

6 жыл бұрын

Hey man VNV, Suicide Commando and Combichrist aren't shit what are you talking about!

@TheHenriqueKipper

6 жыл бұрын

yes! Precisely in Sounds magazine, november 1977 :-) .

This is definitely one of my favorite front-242 songs so early eighties and awesome

the end of 2022 and this song is remarkably inline with the special military operation in the eastern corners of Europe.

Lyrics: The time has come To stop out old affairs To know our neighbours To try to learn new ways They've gone too far Who do they think they are To treat us like they do We'll change the roles and soon Now war's declared My lord what fools we were To trust our neughbours To let them share our lives They've gone too far Who do they think they are To treat us like they do We'll change the roles and soon Now war's declared My lord what fools we were To trust our neughbours To let them share our lives

@deeze6

2 жыл бұрын

Timeless lyrics indeed, especially with Russia attacking its neighbor Ukraine!

@indie0031

2 жыл бұрын

valeu obrigado

@carloscoutinho8492

2 жыл бұрын

Still love this song and the video. A young 242, great haunting lyrics, gritty analogue electronic music/ synth pop/ EBM which was still a new exciting land, sampled voices (!), bad haircuts, a mock fight at the end - fun and it captured a moment in time.

@indie0078

2 жыл бұрын

boa hein

@UsoundsGermany

Жыл бұрын

@@deeze6 BS

...this is pure Power...242...for me since 1986...keep on !!!

Till this day a TOP band from Belgium . Pure art ! Saw them the frist time @ official warfare 1987 .

THis is when people did music for fun, not expecting to be giant stars shoving their worthless egos up our asses.

Those samples at the end with the fight - pure madness! hehe I love it!

@ghoulhellbilly2528

4 жыл бұрын

The same sounds are used for cultists in blood the video game from 1997

Muchas gracias, por compartir este vídeo de sus comienzos, Front242!! Jovencitos, en años , donde todo era artesanal y las salas de conciertos eran pequeñas y complejas para diseñar un sonido convincente!! Saludos, un vídeo de aproximadamente 1983-84!! Rafael desde España

80's Detroit City Club, I miss you so much!

The time has come To stop our old affairs To trust our neighbors To try to learn new ways They've gone too far Who do they think we are To treat us like they do We'll change the roles and soon Now war's declared My lord what fools we were To trust our neighbors #242 4EVER 🖤

@UMENMDFMK

3 жыл бұрын

To let them share our lives

@barbaracrosland3150

2 жыл бұрын

Should be Ukrainian second national anthem

@samueljaros

Жыл бұрын

@@barbaracrosland3150 ... or an anti-immigration manifesto ? Visionary, to say the least.

@glenbellefonte9620

11 ай бұрын

​@@barbaracrosland3150suddenly the Ukraine isn't the most corrupt nation on earth and our friend? And we give them billions? To beef with Russia? And why is beefing with Russia a good idea? Lemme tell you something since you are definitely used to it: the Ukraine isn't our friend. Biden is a criminal and liar. As well as failure as a president. And black lives don't even matter to black lives based on the murder rate amongst them that we also never hear about. Clear? White supremacy isn't a threat. Ukraine is ran by a crime family and equal opportunity does not ensure equal outcome. Get a grip.

@chetfock

6 ай бұрын

@@samueljaros Anti-war, nothing more else.

Keep coming back to this vid such good times

Fantástic band. This is what modern music is all about

One of my favorite songs. Hope to see you again in Peru.

Musical masterpiece,super good.

I like how over the years demeyers voice got deeper and more raspy. Schnapps and cigars

Wow, thirty-plus years on, i get to see a performance by the pre-shouting, pre-bombast version of Front. Amazing.

Año 84 de Front-242, magnífico video. Eran los primeros años de la música electrónica, 🎶...

Joer que buenos los 242 y ahí siguen...masterpiece!🔝

Respect from Brazil. 2019

Impresionante!!!! Madre mía!!!! 11 años tenía yo..... Gracias!!!

Go Belgium ! I have about 4 of their albums somewhere. Im getting them out and playing them after watching this...

No conocía este temarraco de Front 242; es una joyaza porque suena moderno, no ha envejecido porque suena como un clásico

Best guitar solo.

@maocridi

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!👍

I feel as if Trent Reznor was a fan of this group? Yes?

Front 242 is touring the USA right now. I saw them in San Francisco. They still have the power they had when they were this age. It was incredible.

me encanta este temaaa!!gracias!

Espetacular, fantástico, insuperável época. Viva a FRONT242!!!!!!

@rqoweuyqp

Жыл бұрын

Early 242 is the best 242....

@rqoweuyqp

Жыл бұрын

Early 242 is the best 242....

j'adore .... que de souvenirs !!!!

The time has come to stop our old affairs to trust our neighbors to try to learn new ways They've gone too far who do they think we are to treat us like they do we'll change the roles and soon Now war's declared my lord what fools we were to trust our neighbors

@yourlastjoint

7 жыл бұрын

notice they once where known as "fascists"

@Breakbit

6 жыл бұрын

"to let them share our lives"*

@mamayoquiero

5 жыл бұрын

.

@psytechs

4 жыл бұрын

Well, at least I trust Belgians (to a certain degree).

@spacefertilizer

3 жыл бұрын

@@yourlastjoint brits think everyone from the continent that makes dark music is fascist.

love the ying and yang patch on his shoulder

Esses caras são muito foda, amo demais !

From time to time in between jobs, bullshit and family, I've noticed something i want to bring back to life and be able to sustain. This song amongst others from different artists help me with this curiosity. Like someone else here mentioned that it makes them want to dance and that they feel an increase in energy, i too feel the increase. Like a wolf before it does what it must to survive. How it's hair forms a mohawk like formation. That's something i feel relates to what i feel when I hear this song. I want to learn of myself, bring to life this energy and sustain it's warm loving effect, and flood the planet with it. In the name of mother earth and father sun.

EBM a whole new genre was created by Front242

moment of electric at 3min 58 is incredible, i have never hear a sound like like this...marvellous...may best song of F242..

@juliaj8020

6 жыл бұрын

I think it was the guitarist in the background having at it that made that sound. It IS a great song!

@daisaigai7

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's the guitar.

@emmetdonnelly2072

9 ай бұрын

I love 0.52, that entrance of deep serious electro with the digits jumping about....only in the 80s.

A timeless classic.

I like this track and video especially when the vocalist starts smacking Richard 23 at the end.

Eu não consigo parar de assistir isso repetidas vezes pelo resto da minha vida

very interesting band the fighting sounds is something cool that was overlooked i think

Genial¡¡¡¡¡

Only the low beats to the speakers made my parents crazy, so many years later stil love,like the sound...juno reactor and hawkwind went later as noise for them BUT MuSic to me

Слушаю их с 90х уже 30 лет актуально.Это самое лучшее, что я слышал за 30 лет.

ebm forever

@VNVgirl

6 жыл бұрын

Heck yeah!

@ricardowilsonalvestimoteo

4 жыл бұрын

🗣 Electro music Forever!!!!!!!😎👍

@indie0078

2 жыл бұрын

front 242 & skinny puppy

Badass tune !

One of the coolest bands ever. Front 242 from Brussels. Alain Jourgensen, Trent Reznor, Marilyn Manson, Kevin Ogre, Kevin Crampton (cEvin Key) ow this band props. Alain Jourgensen even played with 2 members of Front 242, Patrick Codenys and R23 on the seminal Big Sexyland record from The Revolting Cocks.

@glenbellefonte9620

11 ай бұрын

Only thanks Manson owes is to the Gods of absolute douche bag choads. His music sucks and his unoriginal silly image is just terrible. Badly aged, unoriginal and looks like a clown.

a classic!

I was lucky to see them a couple times in the 90s. Man they are so young here! ❤

Rediscovering this has suddenly made the week at work seem like Friday night every day:-)) Also looks like fledgling flossing is being invented for the first time- genius:-))

Totally forgot about this song...so good. Now I realize how Gary Numan it sounds.

Just perfect music...

Mischa H. Ja die Belgier, von Anfang an voll dabei. Die beste Elektro (EBM) Gruppe. Oder besser gesagt, Künstler die man kennen sollte.Und so lange sofort dabei.Live gesehen u. schon war es geschehen. One of my favorite Bands ever.Auch Gary Numan sollte man kennen. Tja,die 80'er.

Bomba!

This style of music is the bomb.

Together with Kraftwerk, one of THE most influential electronic bands ever. They gave new wave a second chance and paved the way for industrial rock. Quite a resumé for a band of 4 Brussels misfits. Well not quite, Jean-Luc De Meyer owns his own insurance company and is quite the blue-collar guy. In addition, they were among the few musicians who grasped FM synthesis, along with Brian Eno. The end was no shtik. Jean-Luc and Richard-23 do hate each other's guts. They're the analogy of the troubled relationship that Mick Jagger and Keith Richards have.

👍Weltkulturerbe.👍Eine der innovativsten Bands.

Love this song

Belgians...damn, I love them! Klinik, Suicide Commando and of course Front 242. Thank you for feeding me electronic music during my youth.

@godofllies

5 жыл бұрын

I need to mention Absolute Body Control, Sonar and Dive to.

It's now 2021 1st time hearing this :( . I did hear Halloween by ministry decades ago tho. Front 242 is beyond imagination

The best of the best in my opinion!

This is digital bliss.

PPG Wave 2.2 sounds throughout. Good old Wavetable 01. :)

Simply perfect😁

Very JOY DIVISION.. Good sound

"What? That drum is playing by itself? Take that!"

Hi, Willy here! Please come to Argentina! Would be great to see Daniel B playing the guitar on stage in this song!...

...was soll man da noch sagen ?*?, EBM ❤, daran "hängt mein ❤ Herz"...Nitzer ❤ Ebb, Front 242 ❤...das waren/sind immer noch "goldene Jahre" meines Lebens..🎉😂 Lg Michael #7

Ha! That just made my day in 2022!

no me canso de oirlos,sobre todo de lo primero hasta el tirany for you ¡ los mejores !

Love love love!

I was 5 years old when this came out. I first heard it when I was 11.

Haha great! :D

When I read the book this is what I pictured a”Bit of the ultraviolet “ was like

@leexiaoyu

4 жыл бұрын

A bit of the ultraviolet or ultraviolence? Can't tell if you're referring to A Clockwork Orange or something else I'm not aware of...

Increíble temazo 😮

Heros of EBM since 1991

Very Super Cool 😎 😎👍😱

Lucky to hear them in the 80s/90s - never knew the music I wasn’t force fed. Prol need it now too

Yaaaaaas!! ❤❤❤❤❤

Awesome!!!!

That dancing though... 🤣

Forget everything but 242 in dark and powerfull electronic music. 242 is very intelligent music, outstanding. Only bad copies out there. 242 or nothing.

"C'mon, I wanna be the drummer!"

Brilliant.

Amazing