Cabaret Voltaire - Sleepwalking

[emile235]

@TOILETISOLATION well I have been into them since 1985 and read a lot of interviews by them. what I said was common knowledge anyway so you're being a bit over the top

[simonlevitate]

I was 12 years old when I was listenin to this.. My best mates older brother And sister worked for NME in london and we used to tape all the white labels......././ I WISH I could have gone to to the gigs and got wasted.......had to do wiv cider and a sony walkman inthe park ( were sum funny mushrooms going ion somerset at the time!!

[ForARide]

I always used to go dance crazy on this one.

It was a tough 8 1/2 min, I can tell you that for sure!

[ZLUGGO]

Excellent!

[blueaeroplane10]

All the Gasoline 12" tracks are magic.

46 and still dancing to CV , who'd have thought :-)

[Iamlebwol]

25 years on and this song still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.Timeless classic...

[stephenp1968]

LOL

[NunzOnDrugs]

Cabaret Voltaire: Everybody's favorite sunshine feel-good band!  C,V, gave the Beachboys a run for their money for the cheerful optimistic pop department. For C.V. the summer was endless and the surf was always up!

[ruffian1868]

Dennis Wilson would have loved the Cabs !

[NunzOnDrugs]

Dennis would have been pushing Terry Melcher to sign CV, like he did with Charlie Manson.

[ruffian1868]

I agree, but Al would be bailed up in the corner by Richard H Kirk, Mike would be scrutinizing Mal over his choice of lyrical content, Brian would be sh*tting himself under the piano, and Carl would be smoking a ciggie in the staff car park. Would have loved to hear the BB and the Cabs collaborate on an album together. Perhaps tentatively titled " The Pet's sound like they're screaming from within ". But seriously....I Love both these bands for their originality. Dennis was a genius !

[InterestingSpecimen]

That would be the equivalent if in some strange alternative history: had Simon & Garfunkel collaborated with Suicide, or Jefferson Airplane finding themselves in the studio with Chrome.

[emile235]

@ruffian1868 nope Dennis hated black music hence his friendship with nazi Manson

[ruffian1868]

@emile235 . Well I doubt that as two of his closest friends in the middle BB era were Ricky Fataar and Blondie Chaplin.

[emile235]

@ruffian1868 yes because they were co-workers ;part of the BB entourage. Everyone knew that Dennis did not like black soul music and that's one of the first things that Manson said to him when he met him. If you don't believe me check out the bio HEROES AND VILLAINS

[ruffian1868]

@emile235 I've read it, and it is just one of the many older perpections of the band and Dennis. I much prefer Jon Stebbins book " The Real Beach Boy ". His use of the Baptist Choir on " River Song " is yet another example of Dennis's open mind to all forms of music.

[emile235]

@ruffian1868 I am ashamed of myself for taking some author's viewpoint as word. Yes Dennis used the choir on River Song and the BB's covered Stevie Wonder's "i was made to love her" and besides "soul" music belongs to all people no matter what their skin colour anyway : )

[phrumpster0]

@ruffian1868

Good Point. Ricky Fataar was kinda brown. Luv both the BBs & The Cabs.

[emile235]

@NunzOnDrugs the Beach Boys were real proficient composers/muscians whereas CV were art college types who probbaly knew nothing about music so the comaprison imo is not valid, 

[Leitmotivation]

Great old stuff!

[DrRocky666]

industrial is romantic and romantic is rhythm and rhythm is cabaret voltaire and cabaret voltaire is industrial...

[MagnitudePerson]

No, Industiral is many tpyeso ff epxerimentation that Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Carbarat Voltaire, and others did. But its a unique gemnre.

just cause' it has "signal sounds" and other Inustrial samples and elemewnts dsnt mean IT IS. Industrial is known for its Dark Science-fictien thriller atmosphere, the unusual beats and samples major sample layers and other experimentally.

EBM = Synthetic style evolution off EDM just moar larger and epxerimental forms.

Electro = typically "signal music"

[DrRocky666]

EBM = electronic body music or not? what is EDM and which industrial bands do yo know?

[MagnitudePerson]

1: EDM = Electornic Dance Music (its a cateogrie in the beats type off music, like electronica, EBM, IDM, Synthbeat, Braindance, ETC.)

2: ALOT.

[MagnitudePerson]

AWESOME!

[syr1811]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . . . Nice sort of Funky Dance Industrial feel. Well, maybe not Funk with a capital F. lol Thanks, neckro.

[juankenon]

yeah I can't picture Geroge Clinton doing a cover version any time soon

[Sensoria1]

the Cab´s is the best and oldest industrial band !

greetings from Peru

[mrrotweiler2]

can YOU spell Forerunner then ffs? Cabs and Human League are the reasons im a Wednesday fan :p

[synthetikhuman]

i wonder where that old house was. who are the children in the photo ?

[TheMercyBeat]

I guess it was the one where their old Western Works studio rooms used to be. But could be wrong. I wonder who the children in the photo are very often as well.

[semitelfeletem]

hey "Presto!" instant gratification, just what I like. MWAK when you upload it. ~D-na

[semitelfeletem]

who's got "Code"?

[TheMercyBeat]

I have it! On vinyl AND rare CD with two extra tracks {"Hey Hey" and "Here To Go (Little Dub)"} as well! :-D

[11134thst]

One of the best songs by one of the best bands of that time. I Want You and Do Right are also great.

[duerdenn]

I am of the view that the Cabs peaked around this time-perfect balance of commerciality,originality&grea­t vids too-also the slightly hard edged sound of Covnenant,Sword&TheArmOfTheLor­d definitely influenced TheProdigy,NitzerEbb amongst others...

[das81]

You betcha!

[polaroidfiend]

This is better than early Depeche Mode. And I love Depeche Mode. But this band kicks ass. How come I've never heard of this band until today?

[halkvideos]

because your young..one of the best industrial bands ever..check out early killing joke

[das81]

happens the same with me, and Killing Joke sounds great too!, a band who teach a few lessons to fussion rock/metal bands like Ministry, KMFDM, Rammstein, NIN, Godflesh, etc.

[polaroidfiend]

I'm not that lame. I know about Killing Joke! and Nine Inch Nails is one of my favs. Ministry rocks, Rammstein sucks, and so does godfelsh. I am up on my tunes!

[MagnitudePerson]

I prefer regular Industrial over Electro-industrial over Industrial Metal over Industrial rock...

[TheMercyBeat]

Featured on:

"Drinking Gasoline" EP (1985)

and

"The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord" album's CD version (1985)

[TheMercyBeat]

Video directors trivia:

This video is made by Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder together.

[ncaso]

best time of CV...

[TheMercyBeat]

Grandiosity at its best! ;-) :-)

I get frozen everytime I listen to it!

Marvellous track!

[TheMercyBeat]

There's a superb live-in-studio version of this song on the as superb "Radiation: BBC Recordings 84-86" album as well. It bloody KILLS!

[industrialvideos]

Video added to playlist.

[das81]

Its me or this sounds like Skinny Puppy's Smothered Hope?

[nirvanaispus]

Reverse - Cabaret Voltiare were first and lets face it, just about all industrail bands owe everything to the Cab's

[TheMercyBeat]

A BIG thanx for this (and "Kino" and "Big Funk" AND "Crackdown" as well), neckro23!

salutes

TheMercyBeat xxx