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The only KMFDM album you really need is _Don't Blow Your Top_. "Disgust" is essential.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

This has a nice article on the band, but you have to speak Dutch. You can also listen to some of the tracks. Best Belgian band evah, right after dEUS. ;-)

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife just happens to be a Dutch translator. So, noooooo problem.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

And Maria loooooooves Deus to death.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, did anyone bother to check out the Front's come-back album, that came out last year?

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't even know they had one!

Dan correct about KMFDM though I have all the albums through Money (after that, nothing changes...ever). A good singles comp would work, though.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

AMG has me intrigued...
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE47E1FDE49AF7320C2933D42DCBA78D20ADF51FB831F29461BDFBA3C549E3A5CD66AE1A29FFDF36AB67EB0FD2EA45E43D2C8E456F8D6623D2DED93&sql=10:fbb1z88a4yvo~T1

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

scott, you are not alone. i even go the shows, well covenant & apoptygma bzrk at least

― kephm, Monday, 27 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

hey Ned, do you want this tape i just found. I'm slowly making you a care-package and i can include it. It's kinda dumb though. And you might have all the songs:

Track Listing:

Cadillacs - Hey Bob E Re Bob
Ron Moody & The Centaurs - The New Breed
Googie Rene - Look At Your Girl
Karen Kelly - Susie's Toys
The Sherrys - Pop Pop Pop-Pie
The Pipe Dream - Mrs.Brown's Limousine
Phil McLean - Small Sad Sam
The Electric Junkyard - L.David Sloane
Dave Clark Five - All Night Long
The Hollies - All The World Is Love
Cook E. Jarr - Red Balloon
Dolphin - Let's Get Together
Dyke & The Blazers - Shotgun Slim
Leslie Gore - Off & Running
Ben Peters - Downtown U.S.A.
Willie White - 99 Beef Steaks
The Continental Cousins - Dang Dang
Bill Dana - Teenage Problems
The Caravelli Orchestra - Wig Wam
Barrabas - Mr.Money
Flash & The Pan - Hey St.Peter
The Enoch Light Singers - Hello, I Love You
Ramos - Housebroken
Junior Mance - Maria
Mantronix - Scream
Buffy St.Marie - Cod'ine
Monie Love - I'll Drive You Crazy
Etoile De Dakar - Jalo

I don't know what possessed me to put Mantronix & Ramos on the tape. I musta been drunk. I don't even think I made this tape for maria even though there is one of those obligatory name-check songs on it. And Cod'ine is such a dusty warhorse. And you probably don't even have a tape-deck anymore. Anyway, lemme know.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the one Apoptygma album I have, kephm. It's Harmonizer. I haven't heard anything else though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

OKAY, here is my REAL question of the day: I just found a sealed cassette copy of Deelite's Dewdrops In The Garden. Should I open it and play it? I've never heard it before. I loved the debut. But something has obviously kept me from opening it. Maybe it would be bad luck for me to finally hear it. Is it the lost psychedelic dance music gem that I have been waiting my whole life to hear? Or, um, not.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

In what strange bizarro world is _05:22:09:12 Off_ a difficult record??? It's probably the most pop thing they've put out barring _Front To Front_!!!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

And you probably don't even have a tape-deck anymore.

Actually, I do. Send it along if you like! Thanks!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 September 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

their album from last year wasn't that great. the headhunter remix album makes me cringe thinking about it.

i went on a 242 downloading spree on the *gulp* gothic.industrial.mp3 newsgroup. someone posted more-or-less everything.

tho - seriously get the Geography 2xcd release. has allsorts of goodies on it - pre 242 tracks, odd versions and unreleased early tracks. it's fantastic.

they were fantastic live in 89. and can i get any takers for signed front by front and back catalogue cd's ? can i heck. best not mention the nitzer ebb...

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, that geography thing sounds cool. i will look for it. thanks, FB.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG have we found the worst album cover of all time???!
http://images.google.com/images?q=06%3A21%3A03%3A11%20Up%20Evil&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
someone please post it to thread so we can witness the hideosity!

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan - re: KMFDM - what about "Liebeslied" ?

― Paul (scifisoul), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I always forget "Liebeslied" exists. This is reminding me that I REALLY need to copy _Naive_ from someone.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't listened to Front 242 since Fuck Up Evil and Evil Off came out, which I both liked. This thread is really making me want to hear them again, but I don't know if I want to go through all the trouble of digging the tapes up.

Scott I haven't listened to Dewdrops In The Garden for ages, but I remember really liking it, especially after their disapointing 2nd album. I say open it!

― Seb (Seb), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

_Evil Off_ is such a great album.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I always forget "Liebeslied" exists. This is reminding me that I REALLY need to copy _Naive_ from someone.

Yes you do. Especially someone who has the original pressing with all the samples that were later removed. I wonder who that person could be.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 September 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

not listened to naive for years. crikey.

oh, and stirmonster to thread

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 27 September 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! It's 4:30 PM And I'm Listening To The Cranes!

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay! New album's great.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

really. a new album? i'm listening to my dusty tape of the first album. which i guess i gotta say i like more than the other Cranes I have had and heard. But i do like some of the other ones too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Switched off after the dire "Population 4" but have to admit that Ned's AMG review got me interested in "Future Songs"

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! It's 5:03 pm and I'm Listening to the Geto Boys!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha! how often does that happen?

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! It's 11:08 and I'm listening to Current 93/ HÖH's "Island"!!!

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG it's 511 and i am listening to a cranes bootleg.
does she play any guitar on the new one?

― kephm, Monday, 27 September 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hahaha! how often does that happen?

the words "blue" and "moon" spring to mind.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

that current 93 tape i was listening to today was sounding good. i like that one song where someone is singing "na na na na na na na na hey hey goodbye" in the background.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! It's 5:10 and I'm listening to Mahler 8!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I was listening to mahler the other day! I don't remember what time it was though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd forgotten how demented 'The Fall of Christopher Robbins' was..

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG it's 5:26 and I'm listening to "Metal Box"! For the first time ever!

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

omg it's 22.47 and i'm listening to the Mohabbatein soundtrack with Lata Mangeshkar & Udit Narayan.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Monday, 27 September 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG I wish I wasn't at work.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! There's no beer in the fridge! CRISIS!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 September 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That 242 comeback record was WANK. So awful.

― Xii (Xii), Wednesday, 29 September 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

More Front 242 talk here since... sadly the thread title is the non-obviously-searchable "Tragedy (For You)"

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG! It's 2:47 PM and I'm listening to... Margueritas? Actually I have no fucking clue who this is but it's groovy.

(xpost Title search + judicious use of quotes R UR friend, DB)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG more Front 242 talk!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Never stop.

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

It's 9:45 PM (Eastern Time)

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently in an internet cafe being subjected to Richard Marx. It's 9:47 am.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

OMG! It's 9:38 AM and I'm listening to GusGus!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm currently at work yearning to go back home and listen to R. Kelly's new album. It is 3:49 pm

― Die Emanzipation von Baaderonixx (redukt) (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

your clock is slow, Dan. Ugh, now I'm hearing Los Lonely Boys. Who buys this fucking shit?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

My clock isn't slow, I just can't type. 3, 4, what's the diff?

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

Skipping 90 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

keep watching until the end of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSwGj45gxM

― StanM, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:31 (three years ago)

last time i saw them was on the 'front by front' tour in 1988 - i went to see them at the ancienne belgique in brussels. i thought that could never be beaten but have watched this recent AB gig and it is up there. such a great show! such a great set list! i'm still getting over the fact i had to give away my ticket as i had to work the night they played glasgow a few weeks ago. hopefully they will be back sooner than last time as i don't think i'm going to make waiting another 34 years.

― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 August 2022 04:23 (three years ago)

i think it ain't just!

― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 August 2022 04:24 (three years ago)

xxpost: that was a live version of Controversy Between where they start fighting at the end. was online for years and the second I link to it it gets set to private. Thanks.

― StanM, Sunday, 21 August 2022 06:41 (three years ago)

it's a classic. i can never get over how young Jean-Luc De Meyer is there.

this should work -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxvgCc91J_I

― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:45 (three years ago)

this thread led me down the Bandcamp rabbit hole, those remasters sound sweet

― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:51 (three years ago)

thanks! xpost

― StanM, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:59 (three years ago)

all four of these are very recommended: (had the first two for a while in box sets but now available digitally too)

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/hamburg-87-official-version
https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/ancienne-belgique-89-front-by-front
https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/91-live-in-eu
https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/usa-91-live-in-the-usa

― StanM, Monday, 22 August 2022 15:18 (three years ago)

https://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/ancienne-belgique-89-front-by-front

woah! this is the one i was at. so it was '89, not 88! i can still vividly remember losing my shit to lots of this and then to the nth degree when they played "WYHIWYG / U-men".

― stirmonster, Monday, 22 August 2022 22:15 (three years ago)

I listened to 06:21:03:11 UP EVIL, one of their two albums from 1993, this morning. I don't think I'd heard it since it was new. It was pretty good! They were trying a little too hard to write "real songs," and the guitars seemed unnecessary (as they always did when anybody but Ministry used them), but overall pretty solid stuff.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 26 August 2022 12:47 (three years ago)

I listened to 06:21:03:11 UP EVIL, one of their two albums from 1993, this morning. I don't think I'd heard it since it was new. It was pretty good! They were trying a little too hard to write "real songs," and the guitars seemed unnecessary (as they always did when anybody but Ministry used them), but overall pretty solid stuff.

agreed. of the 2 albums, these days i listen to OFF a lot more than EVIL.
seemed to remember that OFF was billed as a more ambient album, which i guess is true.

― mark e, Friday, 26 August 2022 14:13 (three years ago)

I couldn’t find any posts on ILM about graphic novels about particular scenes or music subcultures, and this one goes across way too many bands, but this post has seen some recent action, so here we go!: my old pen pal Tomas has just published the English edition of the best graphic novel ever written about being a synth-obsessed teen in Sweden in the 80s/ 90s!

Richard 23 even contributed a jacket blurb!

https://synth-kids.com/images/ministry.jpg

More info here: https://synth-kids.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFzT1L0Faos

― christopher.ivan, Saturday, 27 August 2022 15:20 (three years ago)

three weeks pass...

due to this thread revive, i am currently loving the M✧✧@g✧.M✧✧@ge release.
possibly the first time i have heard this to the end in well over a decade, and yeah, it's not really a F242 release at all, but an excellent mixtape of underworld/orb/prodigy enhanced 90s ambient techno.

other than Pulse (which i seem to recall not being well received by fans at the time), and the never ending live albums,
have the band actually recorded any new material since the era of UP EVIL/OFF + eps/remixes excess ?

― mark e, Thursday, 22 September 2022 16:55 (three years ago)

guess the use of the 'at' symbol caused trouble.
of course i meant 'mutage.mixage'.

― mark e, Thursday, 22 September 2022 16:58 (three years ago)

one year passes...

it's 2:41 pm and i'm listening to front 242!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwMdpDsaqW4

― scott seward, Thursday, 28 September 2023 18:41 (two years ago)

i can't believe i started this thread before there was a youtube!

― scott seward, Thursday, 28 September 2023 18:44 (two years ago)

four months pass...

Front 242 have just announced that they'll stop touring after this year. Final dates here...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3w0JeJNjBZ/?igsh=cWh5MGFpeW14dWd4

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Sunday, 25 February 2024 13:54 (two years ago)

rest in peace, brave warriors. your work is done. we salute you.

― scott seward, Sunday, 25 February 2024 15:12 (two years ago)

there should be an old industrial musician home that people can go to.

― scott seward, Sunday, 25 February 2024 15:12 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

So... this is it - Today, Tomorrow and Saturday are their final 3 shows, at Brussels' Ancienne Belgique. (Wasn't able to get a ticket, they were sold out ridiculously fast)

― StanM, Thursday, 23 January 2025 15:31 (one year ago)

I was still hopeful I'd get a last minute ticket but alas, it seems impossible. Heartbroken. Still, I'll always have my memnories of seeing them at Ancienne Belgique twice in 1989.

― stirmonster, Thursday, 23 January 2025 16:09 (one year ago)

live stream was incredible!

― stirmonster, Saturday, 25 January 2025 21:42 (one year ago)

oh no i forgot that was on!

― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 25 January 2025 22:00 (one year ago)

it's still online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbwSXVRwKUo

― StanM, Saturday, 25 January 2025 23:57 (one year ago)

setlist https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/front-242/2025/ancienne-belgique-brussels-belgium-33aa4045.html

― StanM, Sunday, 26 January 2025 00:03 (one year ago)

Gutted I didn’t manage to get tickets but the live stream is hitting the spot tonight. I’m still hopeful they’ll play the odd gig around Brussels now and then

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Sunday, 26 January 2025 21:37 (one year ago)

I have the stream on now, what a treat.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 28 January 2025 22:13 (one year ago)

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