The video and the album version sound about the same to me. The video version has a slightly different beginning and sounds a little muddier but otherwise they seem the same. I am assuming the muddiness is just due to a lower fidelity copy of the song.
Front By Front contains too many tacked on remixes for my liking.
They are coming to Miami soon…I’m debating on whether to go or not…
They are coming to Miami soon…I’m debating on whether to go or not…
IMO, if you have never seen them live before, go.
Would have killed to have seen these guys in the 80s. I’m always spinnin’ some 242.
[reply]They are coming to Miami soon…I’m debating on whether to go or not…
IMO, if you have never seen them live before, go.[/reply]
I saw them on Lollapalooza 93 I believe it was…saw them one other time in the 90s also…I will prob go and check them out…
Yeah, they played the 93 Lolla line up.
That was around the time when I actually gave a crap about them too. They weren’t awful, but they kind of got the stick in terms of billing (understandably so, since they were definitely one of the smaller potatoes on the lineup).
242 (and any such electro-industrial type act) should be playing at 1am in a dark smokey crowded club with lazers and fog and slutty gothic go-go dancers . . . . not at 12 noon in 100 degree heat to a sparse crowd of frat boys pounding beers and bouncing around a beachball.
I got bored and went to find soft pretzels and frozen lemonade.
They recently released a remix kit for Take One. I’m working on the most retarded remix ever. I did similar abysmal remixes for Leaether Strip and Hate Dept. I’m very stupid and can entertain myself easily.
It’s been like seven years since I started this thread. Pulse is still my favorite 242 disc, but Up Evil is damn close.
I saw them in the late '90s with Project Pitchfork.
Prodigy was big at the time, and Jean-Luc DeMeyer was transparently copying the Firestarter guy. It was kinda sad.
Where is this remix kit available?
I saw them in the late '90s with Project Pitchfork.
Prodigy was big at the time, and Jean-Luc DeMeyer was transparently copying the Firestarter guy. It was kinda sad.
Yes I think that was 1998 - saw the Chicago show and was fatigued a few songs into the set from all the ‘bonus’ bells and whistles that were added to the classic tracks, and from the pointless “come on! Let me see you” exhortations after every sung line. They were trying so hard to go for a then-trendy ‘big beat’ sound, loaded with sweeping Roland JP8000 arpeggios and ‘Amen’ drum breaks, and the recordings of that tour now sound more dated than material they released in the 80s!
Project Pitchfork, who I dont even actively listen to, pretty much stole that show - they were more enthusiastic, crowd was very appreciative that they had ‘come all the way from germany’, and the singer was I guess a kind of gothic heartthrob at the time, so many dark enchantresses could be found in the audience before mysteriously vanishing for the 242 set.
Lolla '93 was my first 242 gig. That day would be remarkable for me as it would also be the only time i’d see Alice in Chains. In my books, it also marked the last of the interesting Lollapaloozas. I chatted with Patrick Codenys years later about that tour and he mentioned that they regularly tried to get venue management to open up the reserved areas so that people could get up close during their sets. Thankfully, the Columbus OH gig was held on a campground so I got as close as I could.
I’d later see them in '98 and was completely enthralled by how energetic they were. And I couldn’t care less about Project Pitchfork as everything just seemed so paint-by-numbers with their work. I did get a good laugh out of watching Patrick and JL De Meyer hanging outside of the venue next to a bunch of goth kids who had no idea who they were.