― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link
what i would give to have witnessed this!
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Sunday, 5 March 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 5 March 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
(wtf?)
― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 5 March 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 18 May 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
OMG! It's 10:20 AM And I'm Watching The Awesome "Take One" Video!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9dFpJ6GiwRc
― scott seward, Friday, 14 December 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
just spent the day revisiting a large chunk of the F242 catalogue. damn it stands up well. i'd completely forgotten the pleasures that headphone listening to 242 can induce. i was lucky to see the Front By Front tour, and fuck it was good. easily one of my favourite gigs. when cruising the ILM archives, i expected a barrage of hatred towards the band, so this thread came as a pleasant surprise i have to say.
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm, I have to disagree re. the test of time. Recent spins have left me a bit cold.
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
ahh well. its all to do with nostalgia innit. i'm sooo loving the old technonlogy sounds today. then again, the love maybe due to the fact i shaved my head this morning. Oh, and surely Front 242 are meant to leave you feeling cold. Warm and cuddly they were never meant to be ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
New free 2-track single available for download now:
http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1534_0_8_0_C
― StanM, Sunday, 15 June 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear Alfa Matrix, please provide more than two initial seeds next time you announce something like that.
http://i28.tinypic.com/2je4qiw.png
― StanM, Sunday, 15 June 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Contents: live versions of U-Men and Im Rhythmus Bleiben, plus this comment in the mp3 files:
Tune in on www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1533_0_8_0_C on July 4th 2008 for further moments.
(I'm hoping they're going to announce the release of the two anniversary gigs in the Ancienne Belgique)
― StanM, Sunday, 15 June 2008 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
mail from alfa matrix:
Dear Front 242 fan,
After the free "First moment" download teaser, FRONT 242 brings you the live release "Moments..." including the very best of Front242's compositions recorded during the band's worldwide "Vintage Tour" that is still running strong today.
Available as an 18-track digipack CD (holding 4 tracks in alternative versions not featured on the box edition), there will also be a pure vintage collector limited double-disc edition with in total some 32 tracks: 2 picture discs inside a 23 cm square deluxe carton box with 1 poster, 2 stickers and 1 button.
Also available is an exclusive vintage "Kommando" 242 T-shirt which was also designed for the occasion. The shirt is available in various sizes (M, L, XL).
We present you 6 packages: - Digipak CD (holding 4 tracks in alternative versions not featured on the box edition) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1540_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1541_0_8_0_C - Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1542_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + CD digipack http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1543_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1544_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) + CD digipack http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1545_0_8_0_C
IMPORTANT: for 5 days (UNTIL Tuesday July 8th, 12 PM) you - as a downloader of "First Moment" - can purchase the digipak, the double CD boxset (or both in one package) for 3 euro cheaper than the normal price ! Follow the links below in order to benefit from this special fan discount ! This offer expires on July 8th, 12 PM so be quick !
- Digipak CD (holding 4 tracks in alternative versions not featured on the box edition) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1547_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1546_0_8_0_C - Limited 2CD Carton Box (including "Sounds From the Matrix 007" in all boxes) + CD digipack http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1548_0_8_0_C
Or order the Limited 2CD Carton Box + Kommando t-shirt (sizes: M, L, XL) + CD digipack in one go ! http://www.alfa-matrix.com/shop_comments.php?id=1545_0_8_0_C
Tracklisting Boxset:
CD1 1. Happiness 2. Body to Body 3. U-Men 4. Lovely Day 5. Religion 6. Welcome to Paradise 7. Commando Remix 8. Funkhadafi 9. 7Rain 10. Until Death 11. Moldavia 12. Together 13. Im Rhythmus Bleiben 14. HeadHunter 15. Operating Tracks 16. Punish Your Machine
CD2 1. First in First Out 2. No Shuffle 3. Don't Crash 4. Welcome to Paradise 5. Commando Remix 6. Quite Unusual 7. Master Hit 8. Crapage 9. Melt 10. Gripped by Fear 11. Loud 12. Moldavia 13. Take One 14. HeadHunter 15. Kampfbereit 16. Punish Your Machine
Tracklisting Digipak:
1. Happiness 2. Body to Body 3. Religion 4. Welcome to Paradise 5. Commando Remix 6. Lovely Day 7. Until Death 8. Moldavia 9. Funkhadafi 10. 7Rain 11. Loud* 12. Together 13. U-Men 14. Take one* 15. Im Rhythmus Bleiben 16. HeadHunter 17. Kampfbereit* 18. Punish Your Machine* (*) alternative versions not featured on the box edition
― StanM, Friday, 4 July 2008 04:20 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG no one should be listening to Front 242 at 9:30 AM unless they are on some heavy drugs or alcohol.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 05:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I posted that at 6:20 AM :-(
― StanM, Friday, 4 July 2008 08:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Great news! Got me the itch for ebm and now I'm playing some Mussolini Headkick.
― no-nonsense, Friday, 4 July 2008 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
I was into Mussolini Headkick for about a month in 1990. Everyone I've mentioned them to thinks I've made them up for a laugh. Few bands have been so firmly consigned to history's dustbin as second/third-tier EBM groups.
― Dorianlynskey, Friday, 4 July 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
np. "commando mix" http://fc17.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/317/3/7/Headbang_Emoticon_by_d3monthesicko.gif
― rio (r1o natsume), Wednesday, 18 February 2009 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://fc17.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/317/3/7/Headbang_Emoticon_by_d3monthesicko.gif"masterhit part i & ii"http://fc17.deviantart.com/fs38/f/2008/317/3/7/Headbang_Emoticon_by_d3monthesicko.gif
― rio (r1o natsume), Tuesday, 31 March 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago) link
OMG! Guys, sit down... It's 2:48 and I've just discovered that the guy who distributes the internal mail for the last few years is... Richard 23!!!!!!!!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
*head explodes*
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
What!? Where do you work?
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
You caught the man!
― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The ramifications of this are fucking with my brain... For the last four years, I've been regularly having Monday morning coffees with RICHARD 23! OMGWTF!!!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I must see if I can find a WDYLL with your colleagues (who happen to be be members of FRONT 242)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Omg it's 9:30 am and you're drinking coffee with Front 242!
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
looooool
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
hahahaha! weird!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
How did you find out, by the way? Did you get pushed out of the way by a roadie? :-)
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I was walking in the street with a colleague and we passed by a F242 poster and he was like "oh look that's mailman Richard's band. Have you heard of them?"
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Lol
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I just told your story to our gardener Bono and he didn't think it was funny at all, surprisingly.
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Baaderonixx that's amazing!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
on a Belgian side note, it seems he's also an 'ecolo' rep in BHV: http://www.majoros.net/?p=169 (in French)
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
baaderonixx, that is amazing
― HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:03 (fifteen years ago) link
now I regret not going to that anniversary show last year - I would have been like "wait a minute, what are you doing up there?!"
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
the other night i was at this queer industrial/goth party and "Quite Unusual" came on really loud and i started freaking the fuck out. only if they had played "Masterhit I & II" would i have freaked out more.
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
"Official Version" has been in constant rotation recently, in other words.
― tbf explicitly gay albums aren't quite as cultural (the table is the table), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 09:26 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a second live DVD, came out last year apparently. I had no idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPInPCw4h-o
― StanM, Saturday, 9 April 2011 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG! It's 1:23 PM and I'm listening to Front Line Assembly!
― chillin' on an "awesome pretzel" hoagie (DJP), Monday, 28 April 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
its 18:40, i have had a couple of glasses of "it's the weekend" treats, and i am listening to my newly re-ripped @ 256 front 242 UP EVIL album.
it is, quite frankly, sounding f*cking brilliant.
― mark e, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
it's 19:57 and i am listening to front 242.
i often forget just how brilliant this band were ..
― mark e, Saturday, 13 June 2015 18:58 (nine years ago) link
reasons i love ilm part 463
― mark e, Saturday, 13 June 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
Geography, y'all
― welltris (crüt), Monday, 17 August 2015 13:08 (eight years ago) link
They celebrated their 35th birthday last year by releasing loads different versions of these three remasters, including these super deluxe box sets:
http://alfa-matrix-store.com/Front-242/front-242-filtered-pulse-anniversary-box (including live show from 1989)
http://alfa-matrix-store.com/Front-242/front-242-geography-deluxe-box-vinyl-7inch
http://alfa-matrix-store.com/Front-242/front-242-no-comment-politics-of-pressure-boxset (including live show from 1987) (and No Comment sounds fantastic)
― StanM, Friday, 10 February 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
Attention DJP...
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
They're on tour in the US right now! http://www.front242.com/live.html
(without Daniel B who is 66, he's not out of the band, just not touring anymore - the rest are 58-64) and they're even playing a couple of new songs! (first one is Funkhadafi/Generator (new) )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQuXmCdsVW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuNZieQdGLo
― StanM, Friday, 1 October 2021 16:22 (two years ago) link
I caught the Philly show a couple weeks ago and had a lot of fun though the specter of COVID seemed to take the wind out of really enjoying myself.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 October 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
Just need to stop in from vacation and say that “Pan Dhemihk” from Pulse (2003) is mind-blowing.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 3 October 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link