I saw Suicide with the Clash and the Specials in Bristol 1978. Met Alan and Martin backstage and was put on the guest list for their own headline show at the Marquee in London (18.7.78).. Strummer, Mick Jones etc on same guest list.... fuck me!
@MainsofDREAN Saw them in Blackburn - don't know if it was the same tour because the Specials didn't play. Think the tour was called Out On Parole. The audience gave the poor sod a really hard time - he stuck to his set though right to the end, covered in gob and beer.
@RE8978RETURN ha, ok i just had 5 ppl come by and listen to it. they said "no" they cant listen to something tht has nothing to it but yelling. but they did say for ppl who r into death metal could b into it. i personally would say you have filled in the blank, we have found our jokohomo, you have offically dared to be stupid.
@phantasydragon696 5 of your friends: death metal!? You dont like the music, fine. But these "guys" were trail blazers. Now, this is 77-78, think about that for a second. This was before rappers an DJs became 2 idiots standing on a stage, its now the norm. Suicides one of the biggest influences on OTHER musicians, a lot like the VU. People saw it an went for it. You've officially dared to put down one of the most ground breaking/influential acts ever. You can even ask f'n Bruce Springsteen!
just two amateur's who started playing together, the guy is yelling into the mic and the keyboard guy is just playing what sound good with the prerecorded beat. to be really ppl its just two guys trying to make a living and should quit there night job so they can focus on there 9-5 day job
@phantasydragon696 lol both of them are over 70 and still touring cause people still want to see them perform, we wouldn't have most the music of today if it wasn't for these gods
DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DO NOT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READING THIS SO DUNT STOP. THIS IS SO SCARY. PUT THIS ON AT LEAST 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR LOVERS NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS
this is groovy gravy baby, but groovier than gravy, it's as if the gravy has Burdalls Gravy Salt in it and it's been mixed in wi some richt fine stovies, and there's oatcakes AND beetroot, och AYE, fit fine
M.I.A new song Born Free.. she heard this old masters to get that song out, also in the 80s SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK, they were a computer version of this. To me this sounds like a post nuclear war rock concert. Vega and Rev are the finest
Think again " back then" Joy Division, The Fall, Iggy Pop , Velvet underground ,The Saints, Dead Kennedys........ this list goes on, take a look at "back then" and listen to a few bands......you might be surprised, There is so much commercial crap around now....
@desmonica1 Dont worry some of the good today's "commercial crap" sound like Joy Division, The Fall, Iggy Pop , Velvet underground ,The Saints, Dead Kennedys.
Punker than you'll ever be...just love to imagine these guys opening for the New York Dolls. Saw Alan Vega solo back in early 80's, great but not this raw...thanks for posting this clip. Still have the vinyl I bought when I was 15, loved 'em on Midnight Special w/Cars, Iggy...this song, along with Nag, Nag, Nag by Cabaret Voltaire, is the Alpha and the Omega of synthpunk
Another from Paul Tschinkel and his Cable TV show "Paul Tschinkel's Inner-Tube". Taped at Max's Kansas City in 1979 . Give credit or take it off. I mean really!!
@DownMoses357 I see what you mean, but I don't really agree (and I acknowledge that you're not the one who mentioned Pink Floyd first). Early Floyd was great, so much better than post-DSotM Floyd (Pink Floyd is one of few bands that are able to be overrated and underrated at the same time), but they were very different from Suicide. Suicide were masters of minimalism, but what makes their music so scary isn't primarily Alan Vega's singing, but the intense, repetitive rhythm of the synth.
@TroutMaskReplicaa No, they were firmley rooted in the 70's. Before they
(Tommy Gear and Tomata DuPlenty) moved to L.A. from Seattle in the MID-SEVENTIES, they were known as Ze Whiz Kids c. 1972 or 3 Then the Tupperwares. The Screamers were most certainly around in the 70's. They NEVER released any records, it was later when their old live recordings surfaced...
@TheRecyclist I still have my 45" of United b/w Zyklon B Zombie. Bought it at Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley when it came out. I also saw them April '09. I missed the '81 show @ Kezar due to a little bout with cancer...
@nicademus666 Niiiiice! Back in the day it was much easier to switch price tags, the Sound Warehouse was manned by a bunch of rocker dudes, yet they somehow had an import copy (Dutch maybe?) of "20 Jazz Funk Greats",..peeled a supersaver budget sticker off of some cut-out for 99 cents, plopped it down on the counter and the guys started snickering, "Throbbing Gristle?" We convinced them it was a gag gift for a friend' b-day...best 99 cents I ever spent! Saw Psychic TV twice, but not T.G.
@TheRecyclist Never did see PTV. Gotta give props to Gen though...
I found a copy of The Offs first 45. Johnny Too Bad/Zero Degrees at Recycled Records on Haight in about 1995. Someone had placed a 50 cent sticker on it. BUT, the best find ever was a mint copy of Trouble At The Cup by Black Randy Dangerhouse Records. It was in a FREE pile of crap on Noe St. I almost shit myself when I found it. It was a rainy day, but the single was in a plastic sleeve.
What the hell. This video was shot by Paul Tschinkel in 1979 for his show Paul Tschinkel's InnerTube. Give credit or get it off. Let's be proper and fair here.
Why hasn't shitty ytube's administration / engineers installed a repeat or loop button on it's interface? I'd have this looping 24/7, if ytube could get their sh*t together.
@LustForHate Yeah, but there was an english band called white noise who were using loops and samples and electronics thats much similar to suicide than silver apples, check em out.
@thenos4rat2 The reason i named Silver Apple is that someone asked "name me another synth and singer duo before suicide". I sure know and love Whitehouse but they are not as early as Suicide or Silver Apples. And i truely believe the Suicide sound is closer to Silver Apples than Whitehouse. Whitehouse is much more harsh and experimental than Suicide and Silver Apples. But don't get me wrong, i love all those bands.
Okay, I trolled the comments of this video about a year or two ago. I finally thought of it again and thought I'd listen to it again to see if I can make some sense of this song. I realize that there are more abstract and freeform styles of music out there, but one question still remains...
@regicide83 Considering literally thousands of musical artists are doing this style right now on the radio and at concerts, I'd say it's pretty influential shit regardless of if you can make sense of it or not.
@regicide83 Suicide is a protopunk band, meaning they were one of the bands that "invented" the punk genre before it was a genre. They were the first band to refer to themselves as punk.
this is amazing. i hope the new MIA gets them some good press as well. it's hard to believe how singular suicide was back then. others were making some disturbing and/or minimal music, but these guys managed to strip it down even farther, to the barest, essential genetic code of both rock and techno: pulse and attitude.
forgot about Alan Vega/Suicide. think his name was Alan Suicide before he changed it - ? no kidding, '77-'78? crazy, I was a senior in high school about then, and everyone was into Abba, Elton, the Stones (of course the Stones are great), but I was never a pop culture music person, and I was looking around and listening to this kind of stuff. thanks for the trip down memory lane
and silver apples was inspired by morton subnotnick from the fifties he too used electro sounds his first album was called Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer i think it came out in 67 either way people inspire folks to do things like how you inspired me to reply to your comment
its strange because he dont sing the song as the original one, maybe just to destabilized people in audience..they loved to act as the stooges on their shows ! . but Suicide are definitly the creators of electro music (with kraftwerk of course) their music is totally trippy
Me, too. I was too young for the punk movement & even "new wave"- caught what I could on EARLY-80s KROQ, but I tried "tasting" different music styles throughout high school and university as a DJ (during both HS & college)- but never heard of Suicide. I've never been much of a fan of the sound of live performances, so I'll have to track down some of their studio stuff- but I enjoy the visual (I was very picky of concerts I'd attend but I did go for the "show" value).
First: This is NOT music, whatever it is. It's just an endless loop of a badly played organ with some random wacky-doodle screaming on a microphone.
Second: If you are stupid enough to fight defending this complete garbage, you should be looking for a shrink on yellow pages.
Third: Punk is not about fashion, is about attitude, and listen to garbage just because it's bad and nobody(intelligent) like it, only to be the minority, it's NOT being punk.
If you think this is garbage you have no idea of what's music & what's not, or R&R, or Punk, or art, or great songs, performance, or anything else my friend
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REAL punk like sid viscious and the rich heritage he's passed down leading to todays casualties and warped tour is the ultimate minimalism. whats more minimum than playing 3 chord songs repeating simple beats, rhythms, and melodies??
Sid Vicious couldn't play bass. He didn't play on the album and his amp was turned off when they played live. He was the ultimate, punk poser. So much for "real punk".
What's more minimal than playing three chords? Playing one.
dude how can you bring up sid vicious? the guy didn't even record with the sex pistols, because he sucked so bad. the guitar player had to record all his bass parts for him. the bass player who came before sid was actually pretty good, but they kicked him out. bad move on their part.
That was punk. Ramones, Devo, Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, and, yes, Suicide were all considered punk. Clash playing reggae? Punk. Anything goes. The poser idea floated by DikkiSteini came about when journalists and fashion police and tastemakers invaded the scene. Posers created the idea of a poser.
All you on this page are right except for DikkSteini. I am 53 years old and I was around a geek going to NYU but loving and playing rock and jazz. What I loved about punk was that back then it meant "anything goes." And that meant clothes and MOSTLY MUSICALLY. Nobody debated what was punk because punk was not a style or fashion. There were no rules. That was the point. I saw Blondie, with The Mumps, and the opening act was some band with two synths two electric violins and Vega-like singer.
Seen em with the Clash.1978...They blew people away.....
togderi 1 month ago
I saw Suicide with the Clash and the Specials in Bristol 1978. Met Alan and Martin backstage and was put on the guest list for their own headline show at the Marquee in London (18.7.78).. Strummer, Mick Jones etc on same guest list.... fuck me!
MainsofDREAN 2 months ago 2
@MainsofDREAN Saw them in Blackburn - don't know if it was the same tour because the Specials didn't play. Think the tour was called Out On Parole. The audience gave the poor sod a really hard time - he stuck to his set though right to the end, covered in gob and beer.
calligh 1 month ago
this sucks.
1wayward9 2 months ago
@1wayward9
And you are watching it. You suck even more :D
Einvestigator96 2 months ago
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1wayward9 3 weeks ago
@1wayward9 what an absolute penis!
kevphonic 3 weeks ago
@RE8978RETURN ha, ok i just had 5 ppl come by and listen to it. they said "no" they cant listen to something tht has nothing to it but yelling. but they did say for ppl who r into death metal could b into it. i personally would say you have filled in the blank, we have found our jokohomo, you have offically dared to be stupid.
phantasydragon696 3 months ago
@phantasydragon696 5 of your friends: death metal!? You dont like the music, fine. But these "guys" were trail blazers. Now, this is 77-78, think about that for a second. This was before rappers an DJs became 2 idiots standing on a stage, its now the norm. Suicides one of the biggest influences on OTHER musicians, a lot like the VU. People saw it an went for it. You've officially dared to put down one of the most ground breaking/influential acts ever. You can even ask f'n Bruce Springsteen!
taylorhippie 3 months ago
just two amateur's who started playing together, the guy is yelling into the mic and the keyboard guy is just playing what sound good with the prerecorded beat. to be really ppl its just two guys trying to make a living and should quit there night job so they can focus on there 9-5 day job
phantasydragon696 3 months ago
@phantasydragon696 haha that's coming from a kid who thinks "Gorrilaz" is music.
What the fuck are you doing here anyway, go play wit your pokemon cards or something you brat...
RE8978RETURN 3 months ago 2
@phantasydragon696 lol both of them are over 70 and still touring cause people still want to see them perform, we wouldn't have most the music of today if it wasn't for these gods
torason 3 months ago
hypnotic performance. true spirit of rock n roll.
bandini38 3 months ago 2
What the fuck exactly are you supposed to do at a show like this? Other than cocaine.
snowblind309 4 months ago 2
@snowblind309
More cocaine than The Cars
sider420 3 months ago
@snowblind309 lol vega grabs ppl by their hairs and throws them to the ground
torason 3 months ago
a quien chingados no le gusta esto
chelsua 4 months ago
I see a S H A M AN
josefhinojosa 4 months ago
Goddammit!
Alans SO FUCKING COOL!
MrEvanbooker 4 months ago
79? That's fantastic! Brilliant!: )
winterstellar 5 months ago
... real artists are unique.
ThePnutNo2 6 months ago
So leftfield. Coked to the bone. That ridiculously mesmeric synth line. Yelping. Starting something.
Everything sounds like Suicide now.
ssstammering 7 months ago 10
AWESOME!!!!!
KEVEDGAR 7 months ago 2
This is IT, Ive been singing with him 2 times in concert ON stage in Stockholm :)
masen811 8 months ago
@masen811 Me too! In Denmark though! And only one time! But on stage aswell! :)
xAsgerCobainx 4 months ago
after hearing this song i want to ghost ride my car off a cliff and commit suicide
mackles 8 months ago
dude--it's not techno. i guess get what you're trying to say tho...it's 'modern' music at its most primeval..
ergottwins 10 months ago
MIA killed this
OSWNOSWNOSWN 10 months ago
This is SOO awesome!!
Alma889900 10 months ago
i always wonder who gives a video like this the 'thumbs down'...MIA fans ?
90038jhon 11 months ago
TOP!...beautiful song!....
MrRadiomarco 11 months ago
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DONT READ THIS CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS. YOU WILL GET KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. HOWEVER IF YOU DO NOT POST THIS COMMENT TO AT LEAST 3 VIDEOS YOU WILL DIE WITHIN 2 DAYS. NOW UV STARTED READING THIS SO DUNT STOP. THIS IS SO SCARY. PUT THIS ON AT LEAST 5 VIDEOS IN 143 MINUTES WHEN UR DONE PRESS F6 AND UR LOVERS NAME WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO SCARY CAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORKS
Drebin101 11 months ago
This is like a broadcast from outer space, from the future AND the past. Perfect.
blooberpuss 11 months ago 2
R E S P E C T !
theonlyennix 11 months ago
this is groovy gravy baby, but groovier than gravy, it's as if the gravy has Burdalls Gravy Salt in it and it's been mixed in wi some richt fine stovies, and there's oatcakes AND beetroot, och AYE, fit fine
bizdrums 11 months ago 11
@bizdrums holy FUCK that's a trippy comment
CJman327 10 months ago
@bizdrums ach, ah wis jist munchin oan a butterie an ah seen yir comment, cannae really get better than yon suicide an fatty scottish snacks can ye?
muthalovah 9 months ago
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3 words : What the hell?
harleyman1200c 1 year ago
M.I.A new song Born Free.. she heard this old masters to get that song out, also in the 80s SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK, they were a computer version of this. To me this sounds like a post nuclear war rock concert. Vega and Rev are the finest
trasexxxy 1 year ago
I'm so glad I stumbled upon this, you won't believe it.
royorbitol 1 year ago
this song makes me wana put holes in my head
TheOllieO23 1 year ago
what a faggggg
TheOllieO23 1 year ago
Think again " back then" Joy Division, The Fall, Iggy Pop , Velvet underground ,The Saints, Dead Kennedys........ this list goes on, take a look at "back then" and listen to a few bands......you might be surprised, There is so much commercial crap around now....
desmonica1 1 year ago
@desmonica1 its kinda hard to find anything about suicide or the fall online for some reason.
comedyliker12 1 year ago
@comedyliker12 your right about that ! lucky I have some old albums. One of my favorite bands from "back then"
desmonica1 1 year ago
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@desmonica1 Dont worry some of the good today's "commercial crap" sound like Joy Division, The Fall, Iggy Pop , Velvet underground ,The Saints, Dead Kennedys.
J5MARLON 6 months ago
Vega = Ultra
MikeIXWilliams 1 year ago
Its time like these I kick myself for being born in the wrong decade.
Erectoralporicy 1 year ago
alan vega is the boss's boss *tear*
weaselidiotu 1 year ago
This guy is Possessed
natmingmcf 1 year ago
SUICIDE > GOD (SUICIDE IS GREATER THEN GOD)
JimiLaMort 1 year ago
The Doors - Suicide - Soft Cell - Nine Inch Nails.
harwicke 1 year ago
I have had this lp since 85 and i've never been able to pin it down. it stil freaks me out. Makes nine Inch nails look like butterflies.
Beelzubub13 1 year ago
Visionaries
shocktk 1 year ago 2
Punker than you'll ever be...just love to imagine these guys opening for the New York Dolls. Saw Alan Vega solo back in early 80's, great but not this raw...thanks for posting this clip. Still have the vinyl I bought when I was 15, loved 'em on Midnight Special w/Cars, Iggy...this song, along with Nag, Nag, Nag by Cabaret Voltaire, is the Alpha and the Omega of synthpunk
TheRecyclist 1 year ago
brilliant !! what a duo !! hostile crowds...but then a few years later,,electronic duo"s everywhere...this is glorious !!!!
drstevie 1 year ago
FUCKED OVER.
darthmaul33 1 year ago
Another from Paul Tschinkel and his Cable TV show "Paul Tschinkel's Inner-Tube". Taped at Max's Kansas City in 1979 . Give credit or take it off. I mean really!!
innertubevideo 1 year ago
he is bloody hot.x
MrRudefag 1 year ago
Saw them support The Stooges in London. Quite probably the most intense live band I have seen, I was almost scared to witness it.
gregorisgod 1 year ago
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Megajosh2 1 year ago
HOLY SHIT
Megajosh2 1 year ago
Boooorn Free!
Here is the loop on that song
ReinaDido 1 year ago
This is way more confrontational and scary than the Sex Pistols.
timothydean74 1 year ago
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does anyone know what he says in the beginning?
16NostalgicdreamS 1 year ago
does anyone know what he says in the beginning?
16NostalgicdreamS 1 year ago
Punk as fuck and dont you forget it ! Priceless , thanks for posting .
skullzero77 1 year ago
Pink Floyd did this earlier, and better.
Theneongray2 1 year ago
@Theneongray2 What song?
UberBeaver 1 year ago
@UberBeaver
Be careful with that axe, Eugene for example. Syd Barrett era Floyd
personally, i'd take suicide over floyd every day of the week and twice on the weekends
DownMoses357 1 year ago
@DownMoses357 I see what you mean, but I don't really agree (and I acknowledge that you're not the one who mentioned Pink Floyd first). Early Floyd was great, so much better than post-DSotM Floyd (Pink Floyd is one of few bands that are able to be overrated and underrated at the same time), but they were very different from Suicide. Suicide were masters of minimalism, but what makes their music so scary isn't primarily Alan Vega's singing, but the intense, repetitive rhythm of the synth.
UberBeaver 1 year ago
@UberBeaver check out The Screamers, an LA synth band from those days.
nicademus666 1 year ago
@nicademus666 Actually the screamers were in the 80s.
TroutMaskReplicaa 1 year ago
@TroutMaskReplicaa No, they were firmley rooted in the 70's. Before they
(Tommy Gear and Tomata DuPlenty) moved to L.A. from Seattle in the MID-SEVENTIES, they were known as Ze Whiz Kids c. 1972 or 3 Then the Tupperwares. The Screamers were most certainly around in the 70's. They NEVER released any records, it was later when their old live recordings surfaced...
nicademus666 1 year ago
@nicademus666 Good call, also check out The Units from same time period
TheRecyclist 1 year ago
@TheRecyclist oh, I know the Units... what is it with kids these days? They think there was nothing before the internet...
nicademus666 1 year ago
@nicademus666 Too funny! I remember when we would get excited just seeing a Throbbing Gristle record at the local shop!
TheRecyclist 1 year ago
@TheRecyclist I still have my 45" of United b/w Zyklon B Zombie. Bought it at Rather Ripped Records in Berkeley when it came out. I also saw them April '09. I missed the '81 show @ Kezar due to a little bout with cancer...
nicademus666 1 year ago
@nicademus666 Niiiiice! Back in the day it was much easier to switch price tags, the Sound Warehouse was manned by a bunch of rocker dudes, yet they somehow had an import copy (Dutch maybe?) of "20 Jazz Funk Greats",..peeled a supersaver budget sticker off of some cut-out for 99 cents, plopped it down on the counter and the guys started snickering, "Throbbing Gristle?" We convinced them it was a gag gift for a friend' b-day...best 99 cents I ever spent! Saw Psychic TV twice, but not T.G.
TheRecyclist 1 year ago
@TheRecyclist Never did see PTV. Gotta give props to Gen though...
I found a copy of The Offs first 45. Johnny Too Bad/Zero Degrees at Recycled Records on Haight in about 1995. Someone had placed a 50 cent sticker on it. BUT, the best find ever was a mint copy of Trouble At The Cup by Black Randy Dangerhouse Records. It was in a FREE pile of crap on Noe St. I almost shit myself when I found it. It was a rainy day, but the single was in a plastic sleeve.
nicademus666 1 year ago
Oh my God, he's even more scary than Lord Voldemort ö
IAmMyNephew 1 year ago
This is so fuckin' good that it's not even describable, it fills you with some weird kinda energy.
StonedSwede 1 year ago
You are the original Electro Punks!!!
Wherewereyouin1977 1 year ago
Sly Stone meets Elvis on mars! I love you guys!!!
Wherewereyouin1977 1 year ago
real punk or good raw rock n roll
honeyflymusic 1 year ago
HOW COULD BANDS LIKE GREEN DAY SAY THEir PUnk
executiveE 1 year ago 4
What the hell. This video was shot by Paul Tschinkel in 1979 for his show Paul Tschinkel's InnerTube. Give credit or get it off. Let's be proper and fair here.
Paul T.
innertubevideo 1 year ago 54
@innertubevideo stfu and listen, downy.
clancy2k 8 months ago
@innertubevideo
OOOooh, get it off - sounds hot.
BobSeger1981 8 months ago
I like how he's so fucked up he falls down. he's seeing things too.
shrapnel762 1 year ago
@shrapnel762 . Hey! That's Alan Vega! He's performing! It is his intensity.
bullkid4 1 year ago
Why hasn't shitty ytube's administration / engineers installed a repeat or loop button on it's interface? I'd have this looping 24/7, if ytube could get their sh*t together.
drewlsy 1 year ago 3
Is this Alan Vega?
Radagaisus 1 year ago
@Radagaisus yes. Pretty badass I know.
Zerrith 1 year ago
what the fuck is this shit?
#1: extremely influential (name me another synth and singer duo before suicide)
#2: amazingly badass (the lyric "america america is killing it's youth", is fucking cool)
#3: punk as fuck
#4: SUICIDE
this is fucking cool, i would however totally recommend listening to the studio version like
kraigphrenia 1 year ago 6
@kraigphrenia I absolutely adore Suicide, but Silver Apple was doing something similar (Altough not as minimal and subversive) years before them.
LustForHate 1 year ago
@LustForHate Yeah, but there was an english band called white noise who were using loops and samples and electronics thats much similar to suicide than silver apples, check em out.
thenos4rat2 1 year ago
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@thenos4rat2 The reason i named Silver Apple is that someone asked "name me another synth and singer duo before suicide". I sure know and love Whitehouse but they are not as early as Suicide or Silver Apples. And i truely believe the Suicide sound is closer to Silver Apples than Whitehouse. Whitehouse is much more harsh and experimental than Suicide and Silver Apples. But don't get me wrong, i love all those bands.
LustForHate 1 year ago
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Iightmachine 1 year ago
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Iightmachine 1 year ago
Okay, I trolled the comments of this video about a year or two ago. I finally thought of it again and thought I'd listen to it again to see if I can make some sense of this song. I realize that there are more abstract and freeform styles of music out there, but one question still remains...
What the fuck is this shit?
regicide83 1 year ago
@regicide83 Considering literally thousands of musical artists are doing this style right now on the radio and at concerts, I'd say it's pretty influential shit regardless of if you can make sense of it or not.
analogdharma 1 year ago 2
@regicide83 Suicide is a protopunk band, meaning they were one of the bands that "invented" the punk genre before it was a genre. They were the first band to refer to themselves as punk.
surethang27 1 year ago
legendary band right here
Catch22ish 1 year ago
PORCO DIO!
254lele 1 year ago
Youtube Documentary - They Sold Their Souls For Rock And Roll
FedorCHESS3000 1 year ago
best band eva
oatslope 1 year ago
d'une autre planete carrement et totalement monstrueusement habité
le punk ultime c'est vega
jimbomania001 1 year ago
this is amazing. i hope the new MIA gets them some good press as well. it's hard to believe how singular suicide was back then. others were making some disturbing and/or minimal music, but these guys managed to strip it down even farther, to the barest, essential genetic code of both rock and techno: pulse and attitude.
elunaaa 1 year ago 31
@elunaaa THANK YOU! I knew I heard this sound somewhere before.
Nisp4 1 year ago
@elunaaa
the new MIA? What do you mean? Are they putting out a new album or something?
Erectoralporicy 1 year ago
huhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
pakistano12 1 year ago
forgot about Alan Vega/Suicide. think his name was Alan Suicide before he changed it - ? no kidding, '77-'78? crazy, I was a senior in high school about then, and everyone was into Abba, Elton, the Stones (of course the Stones are great), but I was never a pop culture music person, and I was looking around and listening to this kind of stuff. thanks for the trip down memory lane
spanisheyes59 1 year ago
I'd Love To Get Punched In The Throat By That Guy
Ledzep69Man 1 year ago 3
@dohyou yeah look at him hes awesome and soo jim morrison he looks stoned this video is amazing also they got the organ bass its cool
Ledzep69Man 1 year ago
@dohyou yeah look at him hes awesome and soo jim morrison he looks stoned this video is amazing also they got the organ bass its cool
Ledzep69Man 1 year ago
@dohyou yeah look at him hes awesome and soo jim morrison he looks stoned this video is amazing
Ledzep69Man 1 year ago
I Love This Song Its sooo Retro and Punk frickin kickass
Ledzep69Man 1 year ago
looks like he's got tourettes. awesome sound.
iwelumo9 1 year ago
Anybody else thinks vega looks like a fatter lou reed?
madcapoperator 1 year ago 2
Zaken die moesten gebeuren.
PeterVerduyn 1 year ago
(((((spooky vibes))))))
i fuckin love it!!!
photojerk69 1 year ago
Reminds me of a podgy George Lazenby who's taken too much acid or something or nothing.
Don't forget the VVV & RCTJ stuff. 11:52pm, Selling My Monkeys, Protection Rat, Money Day & See Tha' Light. All good stuff. Alan Vega saves lives.
FruitayGoodness 1 year ago
ALAN VEGA IS SSSO TOUGH!
GhostriderRU 2 years ago
VIVA SUICIDE!!!!
willimoto 2 years ago
terminally chill
y3k23k 2 years ago
sommets répondant aux abysses...imperturbablement...génie à l'état pur...
jesusatgolgotha 2 years ago
This Is Real Punk.......
sunnyboy66 2 years ago 49
@sunnyboy66 no. it's bottom gay punk
HeartMind999 1 year ago
Overtheedgevideos...this would be considered Cold Wave.
phoneyiam123 2 years ago
No.
Nine Inch Nails would be considered 'cold wave'(atleast by Industrial purists.)
These cats were around before all of that stuff even had a name.
thirdshift47 2 years ago 3
still playing at 70 tears old !!!..go for it!
mrptvamp1 2 years ago
Alan Vega is Elvis Presley!
9Kzaar11 2 years ago
Vega's Presley,alright--after coming home from WW2 suffering PTSD--with no treatment--ready to go to war with an unsuspecting public.lol
thirdshift47 2 years ago 2
what kind of music is this???
Overtheedgevideos 2 years ago
Punk. Before punk became set as guitars and spiky hair.
mocata 2 years ago 3
The spirit is punk, but this is also one of the first band to do electro music !
papydaponk 2 years ago 4
Awesome...still they ask thirty years later!
h4723d 2 years ago
LOL
Indeed!!--Suicide,so brutaly simple,were their own genre.A hodgepodge of Rockabilly,Garage Rock,Minimalist avant garde,Erotica & Performance art.
They're one of the few bands outside the Velvet Underground whose stamp is on every major genre of Alternative Rock.
thirdshift47 2 years ago
Coldwave
phoneyiam123 2 years ago
and silver apples was inspired by morton subnotnick from the fifties he too used electro sounds his first album was called Silver Apples of the Moon for Electronic Music Synthesizer i think it came out in 67 either way people inspire folks to do things like how you inspired me to reply to your comment
ratsoserpico 2 years ago 2
Sweet, thanks for the pro tip, didn't know about him.
mobile513 2 years ago
yo
ive just listen some silver apples songs and its fuckin awesome; thanks for make me discover these electro pionneers !!!
Weirdsville13 2 years ago
addictive.
lordvespatron 2 years ago
proto-industrial
ClaimhSolais 2 years ago 2
its strange because he dont sing the song as the original one, maybe just to destabilized people in audience..they loved to act as the stooges on their shows ! . but Suicide are definitly the creators of electro music (with kraftwerk of course) their music is totally trippy
Weirdsville13 2 years ago
yeah but kraftwerk is much more poppy and fun, i just can't descride this music
natrat888 2 years ago
Proto-punk crossed with proto-Industrial
michealdark 2 years ago
@Weirdsville13 but before them there were Silver Apples
franeksztajn 2 years ago
alie
foolassfool 2 years ago
only just found them on you tube not heard them before but wow loving them will have to dig deeper
charliedogg74 2 years ago 4
@charliedogg74
Me, too. I was too young for the punk movement & even "new wave"- caught what I could on EARLY-80s KROQ, but I tried "tasting" different music styles throughout high school and university as a DJ (during both HS & college)- but never heard of Suicide. I've never been much of a fan of the sound of live performances, so I'll have to track down some of their studio stuff- but I enjoy the visual (I was very picky of concerts I'd attend but I did go for the "show" value).
Kiddiss 5 months ago
SIMPLY AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
kamikazidive 2 years ago 2
he inhaled a lot of cocaine
12nenegino12 2 years ago 3
ahahahahaha yeah.
karikolada 2 years ago
Suicide is so badass.
KingOfStaples 2 years ago 26
+1 kidcalabria
this is pure energy
ModeONvalencia 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
First: This is NOT music, whatever it is. It's just an endless loop of a badly played organ with some random wacky-doodle screaming on a microphone.
Second: If you are stupid enough to fight defending this complete garbage, you should be looking for a shrink on yellow pages.
Third: Punk is not about fashion, is about attitude, and listen to garbage just because it's bad and nobody(intelligent) like it, only to be the minority, it's NOT being punk.
kerplunkboy 2 years ago
If you think this is garbage you have no idea of what's music & what's not, or R&R, or Punk, or art, or great songs, performance, or anything else my friend
kidcalabria 2 years ago 2
1) Suicide had the attitude...
2) Who are you to decide what's good and what's not
3) Go listen to Green Day and other lookout records pop rock
4) Thanks for hating Suicide, it just makes them even more avant-gardiste and great.
LustForHate 2 years ago 5
And you have no idea what punk is as 99% of the world. Ignorant and superficial pop rock boy.
LustForHate 2 years ago
Warped Tour? hahahaha
VacuumBoots81 2 years ago
do i smell a bjm reference within your display name
BloodTampon 2 years ago
Yes suh.
VacuumBoots81 2 years ago
rad i saw them back in april one of the best bands i saw live
BloodTampon 2 years ago
Guess what: they're still awesome.
street00preacher 2 years ago 7
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mac9641 2 years ago
I would recommend checking out the original vs the live version of this song. It sounds much different
mac9641 2 years ago
this is really something else.... love it
undernative 2 years ago 3
Yeah, one chord or even one note/ one tone is really enough.
Raw pure energy and realness is all that counts!
clone67 2 years ago
All you kids out there calling yourself punk and listening to fast-3-chord-rock being played by sid-clones with spikey hair...
this is the real shit!!!
clone67 2 years ago 7
This comment has received too many negative votes show
REAL punk like sid viscious and the rich heritage he's passed down leading to todays casualties and warped tour is the ultimate minimalism. whats more minimum than playing 3 chord songs repeating simple beats, rhythms, and melodies??
adamndirtyshame 2 years ago
Sid Vicious couldn't play bass. He didn't play on the album and his amp was turned off when they played live. He was the ultimate, punk poser. So much for "real punk".
What's more minimal than playing three chords? Playing one.
strangeparty 2 years ago 5
no ....playing .none
mugwamp4 2 years ago
That's called silence. :)
strangeparty 2 years ago 3
dude how can you bring up sid vicious? the guy didn't even record with the sex pistols, because he sucked so bad. the guitar player had to record all his bass parts for him. the bass player who came before sid was actually pretty good, but they kicked him out. bad move on their part.
glitchesandglitter 2 years ago
That was punk. Ramones, Devo, Talking Heads, Pere Ubu, and, yes, Suicide were all considered punk. Clash playing reggae? Punk. Anything goes. The poser idea floated by DikkiSteini came about when journalists and fashion police and tastemakers invaded the scene. Posers created the idea of a poser.
jedwing 2 years ago 4
All you on this page are right except for DikkSteini. I am 53 years old and I was around a geek going to NYU but loving and playing rock and jazz. What I loved about punk was that back then it meant "anything goes." And that meant clothes and MOSTLY MUSICALLY. Nobody debated what was punk because punk was not a style or fashion. There were no rules. That was the point. I saw Blondie, with The Mumps, and the opening act was some band with two synths two electric violins and Vega-like singer.
jedwing 2 years ago 3
That's certainly true of the New York scene. All of the bands had their own sound. It was incredibly diverse. The English scene was quite different.