You caught the man!
― no-nonsense, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:35 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Omg it's 9:30 am and you're drinking coffee with Front 242!
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
looooool
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha! weird!
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:44 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol
― StanM, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:49 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
Baaderonixx that's amazing!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13:58 (fourteen 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 (fourteen years ago) link
baaderonixx, that is amazing
― HIS VAGINA IS MAKING HIM CRAVE SALAD. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 17 June 2009 14:03 (fourteen 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 (fourteen 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
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!!!!!!!!
― 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
What’s a good place to start with these guys if I love the funkiness?
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
Just listen to their big three albums: Official Version, Front By Front and Tyranny For You, plus the Backcatalogue compilation. That's all you need.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:04 (two years ago) link
Every once in a while I remember that Front 242 had an album named "06:21:03:11 Up Evil", and I think what an innocent time it still was in 1993.When "Closer" by NIN started getting major radio play a few months later, they must have realized their album might have done better if they'd just spelled it out.
― enochroot, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
Utilising a simple alphanumeric conversion from numbers to letters, i.e. 1=A, 2=B, 3=C, ..., 26=Z, the title can be interpreted as:06 = F21 = U03 = C11 = KWhich gives a full album title of Fuck Up Evil.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
i think "No Comment" and "Geography" are the ones with the most funk, "Politics Of Pressure" EP too. For me, by the time it got to "Tyranny For You" they had programmed all the funk out of the music.
I had tickets to see them in March 2020 which has been rescheduled and rescheduled. Now looking like being Feb 2022.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 3 October 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
If not for Covid and a vacation I would probably catch this tour.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2021 00:09 (two years ago) link
https://www.front242.com/store/p90/USA_91_DIGIPAK_CD.html Live in the USA 1991, released last year
― StanM, Sunday, 27 March 2022 15:06 (two years ago) link
oh, and there was a live in Europe 2LP too - sold out by now
https://www.front242.com/store/p91/91_DOUBLE_LP_BOX.html
― StanM, Sunday, 27 March 2022 15:10 (two years ago) link
both are great btw
― StanM, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
They really know how to put on a show
― paolo, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 07:32 (two years ago) link
40th anniversary show in July - they got the whole crew out this time, even Daniel B back on stage, how long ago was that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAt4Czl6bsI
― StanM, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
keep watching until the end of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPSwGj45gxM
― StanM, Saturday, 20 August 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
i think it ain't just!
― stirmonster, Sunday, 21 August 2022 04:24 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
this thread led me down the Bandcamp rabbit hole, those remasters sound sweet
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Sunday, 21 August 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
thanks! xpost
― StanM, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
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-versionhttps://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/ancienne-belgique-89-front-by-fronthttps://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/91-live-in-euhttps://alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/usa-91-live-in-the-usa
― StanM, Monday, 22 August 2022 15:18 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link
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 (one year ago) link