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  • 1 word WTF

  • Thnx for the post ....been a long time ...lol

  • OK, I'm old enough to know about this band (and getting my tail handed to me trying to 'pop' to this back in the day). Songs like these were absorbed into the culture.

    Is Art of Noise a hip hop band? Of course not!

    But did they influence Hip Hop? Of course they did.

    Their influences were felt across the music scene. That's what they did - cross boundaries and pushed limits. Every decade had its innovators - Art of Noise was definitely one of them.

  • Hip Hop used many older records at first for beats n breaks. To rap over.

    Yes we all know Kraftwerk was used a lot, then James Brown samples.

    The Art Of Noise is NOT hip hop or rap.

  • @Lashid4u DOES know his history. Not sure what the other guy is trying to say. Sure a bunch of people used the same drum machines back then but so did Depeche Mode and OMD lol. But they weren't funky. Beat Box & Close To The Edge are early hip hop classics like Planet Rock or Trans Europe Express. All those tracks have more in common with LL Cool J then OMD. B-boys would break to these songs! People who fail to realize this don't know hip hop (or their music history). Google it haha!!!

  • The style of this music kind of reminds me of Aphex Twin or Autechre.

  • Quite possibly the best video ever made!

  • quite possibly the stupidest video ever made... I remember seeing this shit when I was a preteen and thinking how stupid the 80s were, never did I think it would only get stupider in the coming years.

  • @trevinboy so youve always been the same bore. congrats

  • Shaped my high school years. Art of Noise.

  • I remember that jam it has a little electro funk influence.

  • There is another song, like this from them. Same girl, and guys doing almost the same thing, but song is much faster, and the girl says " hey, hey, hey" in it. Almost an industrial, techno-ish song. I need help on this. It's driving me crazy! lol

  • is that a midget?

  • People don't realize this, but their music was very much hip-hop - in fact, alot of these European groups did early hip-hop music - people think that hip-hop is just rap, but, actually, songs like "Beat Box" by Art of Noise, "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock, and songs by Man Parrish, Kraftwerk, Afrika Baambata & Hasim were the earlier songs of the 80s that B-boys would "break" dance to - BEFORE rap dominated the hip-hop culture.

  • @Lashid4u

    You forgot to mention "Buffalo Gals" by Malcolm McLaren.

  • @Fakename70 Another classic!

  • @Lashid4u No no no silly fool. The same drums machines were used. It was all new technology that people were using in different ways. Yes, LL Cool J had the same drum machine as the Art Of Noise. but they were making different music.

    Please, know your music history.

  • @TriGGletyRidesAgain First of all, you used LL Cool J as an example - not good, in making this comparison ...WHY? Because LL was part of Def Jam, and in my opinion, Def Jam changed the sound of hip-hop music, or, rather, rap music ...Def Jam tried so hard to separate rap from any form of R&B, or disco, which is what made the change - no more electro-funk, synthesized sounds ...just "beats", pre-recorded guitar riffs & samples, like in Run DMCs songs...

  • @TriGGletyRidesAgain Perhaps you need to learn some music history - or, at least the history of music that derived, primarily, from black culture (i.e. rap, hip-hop, house, electro-funk)

  • @Lashid4u Totally WRONG. Hip hop has NOTHING to do with The Art Of Noise.

    How old are you? You best be born in the 60s or 70s to know about this music.

    Rap artists ( I wont use LL Cool J) are fringe bands/acts like TAOFN were all using the same technology, electronic instruments, but TAOFN was making totally different music.

  • that car REALLY needs a tune up

  • I was traumatised by this video, as a kid. the make-up on the little girl, and the way she was moving....many slepless night...(and same for herbi hancock video)

  • @LysBlanco Damn, me too, came here for the exact same reason... only knew the group had the word 'noise' in their name. Looking back, not sure I understand why it scared the shit out of me... guess you're right, it's the girl and the way they all move.

  • Although it is the technology which was the newest those days, I think that the starting point is the highest even if it hears it now.

  • Cocaine is a hell of a drug!

  • Dope song

  • Can I like this 9000 times? By the way, Max Headroom and Tom Jones suck. Thanks for selling out, Anne.

  • Reminds me of Beat Box.

  • WTF! is this Shirley Manson & Garbage? their first video?

  • If you listen to close to the song and then Yes 90125 most of the songs are mixed in this...Trever Horn being one of the producers

  • Need someone who can make 80's music like this for an upcoming game. Please contact us.

  • Anyone remember how much The Prodigy shelled out for the "Hey!" sample for their single, Firestarter?

  • Reminds me of when this was on Beavis and Butthead.

  • This video gave me the heebeegeebies when I was 9 years old.

  • This song would really be a great track for a bmx quarter pipe rider or a Flatland bmx'er video while they doing there tricks. Because this sounds like the perfect thing to play while there're in trick session. It has the eerie inner-city street connection to it that's why. I could see the guys just grinding,ice picking, flaring up on beat with this song

  • How could they have hired my sister for this? And did they sedate her?

  • I remember driving around L.A., late at night and listining to this in the 80's on the radio.

  • It's hard to explain how much this blew my mind at aged 13.

  • who is that girl? i wonder what happened to her?

  • My all time FAVORITE music video, one of my all time favorite albums... they just don't make them like this anymore.

  • prologidy brung me here

  • hear the hey prolodgy fire starting did it to

  • Got the album on vinyl with the cut out mask. Fortunately resisted the temptation to cut it out!! My husband reckons I can criticize any music because listening to AON qualifies me because I will literally listen to anything!!! I love them!

  • Holy crap! I've owned this CD since 1987 (when I was 15) and never seen the video to this song! Dog bless Youtube user zttrecords and youtube!

  • Why is it called "close to the edit" when the clearly say "close to the edge"? If you like this try "Why is the Run Gone? - Remix" you might like it too.

  • scary

  • May I recommend the book 'A Concise Guide To Eighties Music' by Karl Vorderman. The author is a big fan of this fine instrumental.

  • To be in England in the Summertime with my Love,

    Close to the Edge, HEY!

    WOW! brings back great memories!

  • @marcusAmaximus

    when i hear that line,to me it seems like she is saying (to be in england ,in the summertime,with the man i love)but it might b because it kinda sounds similar. gosh, can u believe this song is about 26 or 27 yrs old!

  • Remember fondly Art of Noise and Big Electric Cat!

    Pushing boundries not like the CRAP they feed us now!

    To be in London in the Summertime with my love!

    HEY!

  • Ahead of it time

  • Lets look at this music video in a symoblic way.

    The young girls represents modern pop singers.

    The instruments represent modern music, or currently popular types of music

    And the men with tools are the music coroprations.

    The young girl wants to make music, but needs the corporations to make it big and get noitced. But the coproprations take her music and turn it into todays modern crap, using tools (Like Autotone) to transform the music into their idea of "Good"

    Or i'm reading to far into it

  • at 0:41 the floor is taking a real beating!

  • I remember I was trying to get this music at a music store in Washington. They didn't know what type of music this was under. This style of music was so unconventional, but soo cool.

  • I wonder whatever happened to the weird kid. OMG- could it be Nick Clegg?

  • Lil girl is too cute. This is too kicks. I remember this vid on Beavis and Butthead! Awe shit, memories!

  • This song is back from when Electronic music had a future.

  • Singlehandedly, changed my world view of music and what it could entail. And created the electronic monster that is I, today.

  • the hey! at 00:20 The Prodigy - Firestarter sampoled it

  • May I recommend the book 'A Concise Guide To Eighties Music' by Karl Vorderman. The author is a big fan of this fine instrumental.

  • i know its symbolizim but being a piano player kills me when i see the destroying the piano scene :P

  • There was a tall negro in my neighborhood who used to put a refrigerator box down on the ground and spin around to this song. He wore black puma sweats with 2 red stripes down the side of the arms and the pant legs. He smoked Kool menthols. He wore a shower cap all day long. He was my father.

  • @PullMyPeeper Too funny!!!

  • @PullMyPeeper Cool memory. Were you mortified to death?

  • HA HA HA HA HA I FRAQ'N LOVE THIS VIDEO !!!!!!

  • I was watching an episode of The Venture Bros. and they had a bunch of weirdly dressed people living in an underground bomb shelter. There was a guy dressed like the guy in The Prodigy's "Firestarter" video and four other people. After some searching I realize they were referencing this video. I'm too young to get the reference initially, but I'm glad I looked it up!

  • In the time when videos were already becoming cliche, THIS is what a video should have been and should be! Visual expression of the music!

  • Anyone know if the "Hey!" - sample is Betty Chung from her song "Bang Bang" ? - it sounds like it.

  • - 01:22 seconds into the Bang Bang song. (see video on Youtube)

  • @JLogic72 no it is not Betty Chung. It is Camilla Pilkington-Smyth.

    

  • Sometimes we all need a little freeky shit. 

  • Bring it Down!! Bring it all downn!!! D:<

  • im having alot of video stopping in play on my moble phone for the week now need service some how i im useing it too much

  • Give the dog the sausage stop teasing the dog lol great song

  • Why arent Bevis and Buthead making comments over this video?

  • great vid fit with the music brilant :)

  • ...who´s afraid of??? Not me!!

  • Simply Awesome!

  • MASTERPIECE 

  • So this is where are those Amiga modules got their samples from...

  • pure fairlight, this track is entirely made out of samples.. that was very rare in the 80s..

  • Little girl beating the crap outta the piano with a pipe wrench, Classic!

  • This is Golden and will stand out for years to come! -jzebraa 2011

  • I never got into At of Noise, but I remember this video well from the golden days of MTV. I watch it now and think, "Man, these guys were boldy going where no man had gone before."

  • A pipe wrench is not the right tool for destroying a piano

  • My favourite part was always the dachshund and the adorable little girl running around the piano. Poor hungry dog!

  • They wear goggles while the little girl's eyes are exposed to the sparks. But, it was the 80's. Who gave a crap.

  • @SuperFromatoz Since when do sparks fly from powertools against wood. Relax.

  • @oceanic16 What holds the wood together? Nails/screws. Last I checked, nails and screws were made of metal.

  • sill got the 7 inch version close to edit wow

  • I nearly cried when the keys on the piano were sliced up, but ~ nontheless, great vid! :)

  • For some reason, the dog in this video always creeped me out.

  • The 80's really were a lot of fun, weren't they? A shame I didn't realize how much fun I was having then, but that's always the way, I guess. I had forgotten about that nucleared-out little girl, her crew of destruction and,of course, the dachsund. Thanks for this one ...

  • I still rock this - some 26 years later. AON was very musically progressive.

  • Holly crap l remember this!

  • Little girl looks like a little angry Cyndi Lauper.

  • love those sounds, was excellent back then. really original........

  • Hands down!! This must the weirdest, craziest and creppiest video from the 1980's

  • Sounds like new love.

  • I feel like smashing stuff and capturing it all in the studio so it can be shared again and again by all :)

  • When that little chick tells you to break shit, dammit you better break it NOW !

  • @zkxv LOL

  • Gotta love the Fairlight sound! And the Prodigy sampled the "Hey"

  • I of the (first) MTV generation. This video creeps me out the same today as it did back then! Brilliantly disturbing.

  • Bizarre and Brilliant!!!!!!!!

    

  • This was back in an era when musical artists were expanding the notion of what music was. They were thinking out of the box and actually being creative and taking risks. Now we just have a bunch of derivative, boring crap that's too scared to take risks or be creative.

  • @psych0s15 Today's artists aren't artists at all. The same way today's reporters aren't reporters - they are just news readers. Today's artists are just tools to shape pop culture and the kids.

  • @psych0s15 You really have to listen to Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion and Bibio, and Jackson and his computer band...

  • @melitosse Jackson and his computer band is the shit!

  • @psych0s15 yeah if you only listen to radio 1

  • @psych0s15 As much as I'd like to agree with you, using a bunch of pre-defined hits, pads, and synths is not even remotely innovative; not even when compared with artists 10 years before or in the present.

    Also: huh huh that little girl farted.

  • @psych0s15 So true! Wish we could back to this.

  • @psych0s15 Hi. I would just like to ask you a question. What level of mental retardation are you at? Seriously? This is art? If you like this, then I just have one more question? How much coke were you doing back in the 80's? So by bashing the music of the past and paving the way for the almighty SYNTHESIZER, this video represents what music should be? I think I may be just as retarded as you for replying to your comment.

    Thank you

  • @psych0s15 you say that in complete ignorance of the 10 years of krautrock that basically inspired this... which is essentially the commercial theft of all those sensibilities and actual creations... i'm not knocking it as most art is theft, especially when it comes from a place of proper creativity then into massive mainstream success... at the time there was far darker and more cutting edge music underground of this stuff... this was sheer fashion pop...

  • Respond to this video... also... whilst i agree that most modern music is utter shit... i've seen far more original stuff in the last 20 years than the art of noise... they weren't original whatsoever... there are a ton of creative techno artists right now... you just dont listen to them, and take one look at stereolab or portishead etc...

  • i love that they all have eye protection on except the 6 year old

  • @MikeA0110 She's the project manger. ...no real work just direction:)

  • omg i have heard this song 1 million times but the video is totally badass!!!! how fucking cool!

  • Really cool and catchy song...weird video though!! who's delingquint little punker girl is that anyway??? i remember watching this video back then. i got it on cassette lol!

  • Really cool and catchy song...weird video though!! who's delingquint little punker girl is that anyway???

  • @coindude69  That little punk girl is probably 35 years old now! Time flies!

  • Absolutely brilliant!

  • why everybody insults the untalented people of tv instead of the fuckin channels that choose to air that shit?!?!

  • this is not earth music

  • I will admit...this video scared me as a kid!!! lol

  • Heroin

  • I wonder what the girl looks like 27 years later.....

  • @drnapls2 probably like chucky the doll

  • guys.. what part of this was in Firestarter by Prodigy???

  • @svendiamond

    Sample starts at 0:19

  • @svendiamond The "Hey!" sample in a womans voice

  • Search YOUTUBE for

    "Hell in Paradise" by Yoko Ono

    Similar, eh?

  • @Matrix29bear

    At first i thought it was a troll, but it's a massive rip off of this. Then again this was the base of acid house and rave (more so than kraftwork).

  • @SaigaPhoenix308 Your mom is some faggy shit. PROBLEM?

  • @MrTronbit oh sorry tough guy, this is still some faggy shit. take your homo ass europe.

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  • @SaigaPhoenix308 Plus, I apologize, that was just too funny to post. Sorry dude!

  • hahaha i remember this back in the day

  • Ah Trevor Horn. Personally responsible for the 'Orchestra Hit' sound on most electronic keyboards produced between 1984 to the present day.

  • Be afraid..be very afraid.

  • Destructo synth and a ginger mullet. LOVE is in the air..

  • Yes but WHO DID THE 'HEY'?

  • I just love it when they say "tralala"!!

  • GOD!!! Ive looked for years for this song. The video used to lay on USA's Night Flight video show every week on Fridays. man this is so AWESOME!!!!

  • @mikemontgomery1970 Yeah, this is one of my favorites and I didn't get it on tape until VH1 Classic came along about ten years back. I remember seeing this on MTV all the time back when it came out. MTV wouldn't be caught dead playing something like this nowadays.

  • @SirHatchporch MTV wouldn't be caught dead playing any music nowadays. Even VH1 Classic is getting away from playing videos. Wish there was a channel that would just play shit from the 80s.

  • Like 1423 Could take it or leave it back then. Now it's awesome!

  • @SlumberCloud because it's a silly video, not reality.

  • that dog is awesome.

  • what the hell did i just watch

  • killer ginger mullet !!!

  • I recognize the 'HEY'... it is used as a sample in another song. Anyone knows?

  • @noemichael Firestarter by The Prodigy =)

    

  • @noemichael Prodigy I m the fire starter

  • get the ipad Fairlight and you can play along ORCH#2 and SARAH :-)

  • this video changed my life and musical tastes forever!

  • Yes!

  • One of the strangest songs/ video's of the 80's. But i couldn't help it....i always watched it back then....of course i was addicted to MTV in the 80's.

  • information society were also pioneers of sampling in the early 80's along with kraftwerk :)

  • this is my dance songg

  • @GarrettYork LOL! youre so right yet its hilarious since I'd never noticed it before. "mulletgirl" OMG ROTFL

  • fucking classic!!!!

  • That little punk kid with too much 80's makeup is probably 35 years old now!! I'd like to see what that kid has done with their life since then...This video is very weird in a good way. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more views. Did people forget this video?

  • this video is soooo in need of a where are they now special

  • give that violin to me.do not break it!!!!!!!!!!

  • Gawd, I miss the eighties!

  • "Hey Beavis, that little girl just farted"

  • Thanks for the music!!!! LA/Honolulu

  • I'm here because of Beavis and Butthead. Da-na-nanana dana-nana-nanana dana-na!

  • This was when sampling was new and exciting, you could only sample around a second at decent quality into the Fairlight CMI's AON used so you had to be creative.

  • This is the video that made me realize "Okay, we're not in the 70s anymore...."

  • Gratuitous wiener dog!

  • @GarrettYork lol

  • According to Wiki New Zealand banned this video because it depicts violence towards children.

    Seriously?

    The only violence going on in here seems to be directed towards various musical instruments. And she seems to be directing the violence.

  • Was it a dream.., or was I really 18 years old in 1984..

  • @gerardhalsema It's not a dream! I was 16 and I feel the same way!

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