BRAINIAC - Wild, Inventive Synth Punk That Needs To Be Remembered 

Bonus video: Here's my cover of 'I Am a Cracked Machine' ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jvid2Xi6Bqg.html And here's a playlist of my fave Brainiac songs, because you should be listening to them RIGHT NOW: open.spotify.com/playlist/0mgW3oIQ5WntkTQJGslrlM?si=jJRz8vsFR6Kw561QSFWegg

Saw them 12 times, they were the best live band I ever saw, period.

I once lost 5 pounds shakin' my booty at a Brainiac show. I miss speaking with Timmy after shows, he was such a great dude. Thanks for sharing.

My dad knew Tim Taylor! That's always been so cool to me! I wish he were still around today.. The music lives on for sure and thank you for helping that to stay true! :)

I grew up in Dayton,OH and was lucky enough to see them reunite. Top 5 forever.

The internet didn't really ramp up until after they were popular, hence why Pitchfork and RU-vid reviews aren't really existent for Brainiac.

Thank you for covering Brainiac. I'm surprised anyone since the 1990s has noticed them. I was lucky, I got to hear them on the radio back in 1994 in Cincinnati. RIP Timmy.

I love that you're keeping the memory of Brainiac alive. One of my favorite bands of all time.

Great Review! I am a bit late I suppose but I find it cool to see a video on Brainiac other than the live recordings, song recordings, and sparse interview recordings. I have been getting back into the band recently with my friend and I just always forget how much I love them! I saw the documentary during the 1st Dayton showing on April 19th at the Neon and it really moved me as a younger teen. Since my dad was the drummer, I feel especially affected in an odd way, cause in the early years of my life I saw the long term effects that losing Tim and subsequently Brainiac had on him. Throughout literally my whole lifetime its been really nice to see him make a sort of recovery from the lifestyle he had unfortunately found himself in. The documentary puts more light on the lives of the members after and its on Amazon video if you haven't seen it yet. The more and more I listen to Brainiac and talk to my dad about it, the more I just really wish Tim was still alive so I could just talk to him at all really. Anyways my favorite has got to be Hissing Prigs, with Bonsai Superstar as a close second. Thanks for making a video on this legendary band!

Just gonna leave this here, even though this is from four years ago lol. I heard about Brainiac from Chalk (Cincinnati band that formed the year TT died, and heavily influenced by them), and now I'm on the mother ship lol. The world is quietly disappointing without bands like this in it. Thanks for this, and the heads-up about the doc.

I spread the gospel of Brainiac LITERALLY everywhere I go.

It has likely been mentioned here already, but just in case it hasn't. There was a local man named "Johnny Metal" that had a local TV show on PBS, and a small local music shop on Brown Street in Dayton near UD. The man Johnny Metal's real name was Vincent. He would come into the record store that Timmy worked at, Trader Vic's Music Emporium, Johnny Metal would come in and go down to the basement of the shop and talk with the owner of Trader Vic's in the basement. So, "Vincent" was a local personality that many of us came to know in and around the "Down on Brown" area.

Thank you for making this video!!!!

Great video, I myself discovered Brainiac a month ago and was also blown away. I did hear Bonsai Superstar first, then was really amazed by Smack Bunny Baby and loved it. Everything they made is great in it's own way and I wish we could've got to enjoy more music from them.

I had just heard of these guys recently, however, after listening to these guys for a bit this year, I can definitely say that Brainiac is definitely one of my favorite 90's bands now. Thanks Mark Hamill and Trent Reznor!

this rules. just watched the doc today

Seeing Trent, the drummer, now and at that time is like night & day. The guy really changed a lot between Taylor’s death & now, though I’m just happy that the guy was able to rebound from such a tragedy. From what I understand, it really affected him hard before he managed to build himself back up, but great review, nonetheless :).

In a trunk of a plymoth in memphis!

i watched this video right after i listened to Hissing Prigs for the first time and it was such a good introduction to their music, now they're in my top 10 all time fave bands, thanks!

Grew up in Dayton. Was a total groupie. Thanks for these memories

Great vid. I just wanted to add that Indian Poker pt 2 and 3 do indeed have a connection, which is they lyrics. Tim sings them in pt 3, and an automated computer voice recites then in pt 2

this is gold, keep doing this dude

Thanks for documenting this bands existence. I saw Guided by Voices and The Breeders in 1997 at Gilly's in Dayton, Oh. It was a benefit show for Tim Taylor's family. I had never heard of them before that show. Bob Pollard asked me if I had ever heard of Brainiac, and I said no. I was 21 yeas old and I swear it seemed like Bob was disappointed or thought I was an idiot for not knowing about the band. Lol. But yeah, great band. Great to see a comprehensive video about them. 👍

Nobody knows that I talk to my fingers. They tell me what I should not do.

Thanks for making this video, this band is legendary.

Dayton folk went to Lollapalooza 95 just to see Brainiac. The rest was just surviving heat strokes.

Wow this actually seems like the coolest fucking band ever

I saw them doing warmup for The Amps back in 94. Had no idea the treat I was in for. Been revisiting them ever since. Btw, did you check ENON, Schmersals band from 99 to early 2000s? The have done some pretty great tracks!

Thank you for this. My #1 crushes. I have a tattoo of T1MMY to prove it.

Thank u for keeping these legends alive💙💙3RA1N1AC the king of pop

just recently listened to brainiac. Insane how much ATDI took from them. I saw Cedric is part of the documentary. He never kept it a secret his love for Brainiac, but I just was in awe of how much it sounded like ATDI but 10 years before. I also love how good Bonsai Superstar *sounds* in terms of the guitar tone and the mixing. It's one of the best recorded albums I've ever heard I think. Because it's chaotic but very clear and crisp and pleasant to listen to.

I saw Brainiac at the Garage in London in 1997. It was a one-off headlining show while they were supporting Beck in the UK. Is there any footage of that gig or of the gigs with Beck?

You did not lie when you said Timmy takes every vocal approach imaginable. I found your channel from your Failure videos because I fucking love Failure and decided to check out your other videos and this was the first one I watched and I cannot thank you enough for making a video on Brainiac. I can't believe I'd never heard of them before watching this, they are indescribably incredible. Thank you.

Saw them at canal street tavern in Dayton. They blew my fucking head off.

Thabks for this. Brainiac was my shit in the 90s......and somehow I missed this and the documentary. I just heard about the Attic Tapes last Friday.

These guys were light years ahead of their time I mean the locust, future of the left and now snapped ankles are all clearly influenced by Brainiac, They sounded like a updated version of This heat/camberwell now genius stuff, them and the VSS were doing a similar thing both awesome! I went to uni in Cardiff during the early 00s and it seemed a lot of the local bands such as the Martini henry rifles were trying to be Brainiac.

Such a good band. Man or Astro Man? came through Burlington,VT when I was 15 and a couple members guest DJ'd on the college station, WRUV. They played some Brainiac and Six Finger Satellite. Huge influence on my taste for the rest of my life. Great Video!

Great doc. Love this band. Saw them play twice. Way ahead of their time.

good video. just saw them in Cincinatti

Yo this video is dope

Their sound remind me to Sonic Youth and Fugazi

I think you just turned me into a Brainiac fan. Great video.

I just swa them live supporting Mogwai at Birmingham Institute. They were absolutley amazing! I wanna do it all over again because they were so good!!

I found them through Enon. Love them to death. Going to see them this February for their southern concert. I have never been so excited for a concert in my life

Smack bunny baby is a great album! But this band was criminally underrated...

I saw them at stashes here in Columbus on OSU campus back in the day. I remember it being one hell of a show and the place was so small that if you got on top of the crowd you were kicking pipes on the ceiling.... It was a great place till it burned down.... Thanks for the video! #loveisthenewtrend

Brainiac just featured in two singles by The Dough Boys in 2021 - their legacy is living on.

Saw them at Tramps in nyc in 1997. The greatest band to ever pick up instruments. Absolutely genius band. So tragic what happened to Tim.

brainiac are so unique, such a bummer they were cut short.

I found this video and was amazed at how good the quality was for such an underrated channel, before realising wait, it's THAT Shonky! takes me back to the weezer shitpost days

i found these guys through john schmersal's later involvement the band enon (which has quickly become one of my favorite bands) and im surprised with how crazy good they are. its funny though, i found smack bunny baby to be my favorite album of theirs, and didnt quite vibe with all of bonsai superstar. interesting, since BS is when schmersal became involved in brainiac

I really want those old albums reissued...thankfully they got the last 3 releases on bandcamp. This band is wonderful.

These guys fing rule. Need to check out schmersal's band Enon.

what a great video, thanks for the effort

I am just starting to get into them and I didn't know they were from Ohio!! I found them from a help she can't swim instagram story, and listened to Vincent come on down first, and I have to agree, its great and it's probably one of my favorite songs!

I played bass in high school next to Tim in orchestra. Pretty funny the guy in the delinquent end of bass section ended up being an alt rock star. Tim was a real mensch too, you’ll never meet a nicer guy.

I saw Enon before hearing of Brainiac. I heard Nothing Ever Changes, and found out later John was in this band.

B Superstar is funk music. Surprise!

you should do more videos like this!

Dayton doesn't have much but it did spawn Brainiac and GBV

Shonky please make more video reviews they so good

wtf dude, you stole my video???? nah, im kidding. this was a really great video you made, perhaps even better than mine. tbh, i was a bit disappointed when electro-shock came out because i felt it wasn't as aggressive or weird as electric prigs or bonzai, but it's still a great album nonetheless. but yeah, brainiac is criminally overrated, but im hoping with this documentary, that will slighty change update: took me a couple of seconds to realize that this shonky dude is the same shonkywonkydonkey dude that did all those gorillaz owl city and smash mouth mashups. so, yay i got noticed by a big youtuber

Aw yeah! Brainiac!

SHIT IS DONE FUCTUP!! DUDE, I LOVE YOU. KEEP IT COMING.

Thanks for this! DVD / VOD out Feb. 21. Pre order the DVD here: mvdshop.com/products/brainiac-brainiac-transmissions-after-zero-dvd?fbclid=IwAR0JJ2hPgVvYNtXB2rKt4Yf53wvBoYkKUQyNHCbn-jj1-s1YHEiv5wnpS9s

No idea you had such kino music taste, shonky

God killed him because he was about to blow up the galaxy

DVD / VOD out Feb. 21 - Pre order here: brainiacfilm.com/

Regrettable the comment about the King.

Perun?

Bonsai Superstar is funk music. Just better.

you should really make more videos in this retrospective/review format! id be interested in watching something Dismemberment Plan related from you, the frontman was heavily inspired by brainiac