Front 242 Controversy Between COMPLETE VERSION Best video ending ever EBM 

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This is shockingly perfect.

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 !!

THIS is why the internet and mostly RU-vid 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.

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 🖤

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

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

Have a lovely EBM day everyone

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

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

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

Fantástic band. This is what modern music is all about

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

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

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

Best guitar solo.

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

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

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

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

Musical masterpiece,super good.

FRONT242 are my BEATLES .....

Keep coming back to this vid such good times

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Respect from Brazil. 2019

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.

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

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

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

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

👍Weltkulturerbe.👍Eine der innovativsten Bands.

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

I love Industrial Music

Very Super Cool 😎 😎👍😱

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

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

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

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

EBM a whole new genre was created by Front242

Me flipa mucho, cada vez que la escucho ❤gracias

...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

Excellent groupe Belge...

Great digital track

Love this song

Just perfect music...

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:-))

Very JOY DIVISION.. Good sound

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

The best of the best in my opinion!

Yaaaaaas!! ❤❤❤❤❤

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

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

Brilliant.

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

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.

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

Another great band, from Belgium 🇧🇪. Along with A Split Second.

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

Best, 👍👍👍

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

Esses caras são muito foda, amo demais !

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

Front242 war einer meiner Wegbegleiter in die Techno Szene. Einer der Schlüssel zu meiner Frankfurter Wohnung, vom Dorf aus;-)

Simply perfect😁

Genial¡¡¡¡¡

me encanta este temaaa!!gracias!

Total geil richtig absolut hammer

The Song is awesome!!!!!

A timeless classic.

This style of music is the bomb.

Meine lieblieng's song von front 242 und loveli day/kampfbereit ..... ....in love

LOVE LOVE FRONT 242, I HAVE MI T-SHIRT AND WEAR IT WITH PROUD, LOVE LOVE THIS GUYS !!

WONDERFUL WORDS AND TOUCHING SOUND

Awesome!!!!

ebm forever

Amazing

Зачем он отпиздил барабанщика? Вероятно чтобы я этот коммент написал. Песня супер! Front 242 красавчики! 100500 likes! ___ Why did he beat the drummer? I probably should have written this comment. The song is great! Front 242 handsome guys! 100500 likes!

fantastic

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

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

Heros of EBM since 1991

außergewöhnlich gut!

Love love love!

Brilliant