Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic live at MTV studio

[5stringofFernandoSor]

I love this song, but this is God awful.  No stamina whatsoever.

[hugginsrob2]

Really this is one of my favorite versions

[poum1976]

Fucking great!!

[jadehavok666]

<3



[radted411]

Sounds like a ghost.

[jus1taj]

I wish my skin was Black Metallic!

[jus1taj]

Yes yes yes!

[whymenogood]

I miss the egoless clothing and look of these 90s bands

[Yutakina]

3 people have black metallic skin

[TheNabokovsgirl]

I had completely forgotten about this band and just heard them on Sirrius radio--yeehaw! they are amazing. Such a beautiful, perfect song!

[dakavanagh]

@TheNabokovsgirl Do checkout their song "Satellite" as well. One of their best, IMHO

[bklyndude77]

3 people hit the dislike button by accident

[cjt58]

just amazing, incredible band lucky enough to see them at rock city a looooooooooong time ago one of my best gigs ever even now

[Santurro99]

Ahhh, the days when MTV was cool!

[MrJeronimofo]

I would agree that Robs vocals got better. I can say the same thing for Adam Franklin of Swervedriver. We all know that vocals weren't the focal point of the shoegaze bands in the first place

No matter how much you like a band you have to be truthful when it sounds like shit. I love Catherine Wheel but this video and a few others I've watched sound like shit. Don't fool yourselves. And I'm not trying to start a fight either.

[dmicheal1]

@MrJeronimofo u donno the r the best

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[MrLeagueOJustice]

Waaaay better recorded than live version

[Astroman505]

Thank You. Another one of the greatest bands on earth that should have ruled the world but didn't. 

[gialgu]

shoegazing!!!

[timali4man]

Oops, I meant I agree with zeecezzzy. I appreciate that this video was posted because it's another example of how TV shows, especially late night TV shows get the mix completely wrong for bands. The "engineers" should put forth a little more effort. CWs live performances were highly praised. Personally, I think they sounded better live than on the studio albums. Yes, they were that good, and underrated.

[timali4man]

I agree with MrJeronimofo, the mix is terrible. CW is "shoegaze" i.e. "wall of sound" with subdued vocals, not forward vocals and subdued guitars. Too bad as CWs live performances were among the best I've ever heard.

[MrJeronimofo]

Fine, I'll give you that. Live recordings of Rob's new solo work sounds spot on though.

[laxshmi77]

I think this was on 120 Minutes when they were promoting 95's Happy Days album.

[MrJeronimofo]

So many singers of the 90"s are flat live. Thank you studio albums!!!!

Great song,shit vocals.

[zeecezzzy]

@MrJeronimofo the vocals arent bad. the mix is shit. they have the guitars way to low and the vocals and drums up to high. the cw sound on the albums usually was a layered sound and they buried the vocals pretty deep in the mix with lots of reverb. here they didnt do any of that. part of the reason a lot of the vocals seem crappy in these 90's vids is because the audio tech didnt do the live mix right. shows the importance of audio guys really.

[ConfusingClarity]

@MrJeronimofo

Yes.Rob does sound pretty 'flat' and overtly restrained here, but the band was still fairly new at that point. His vocal delivery got stronger and more confident with the subsequent albums, and live. For example, just find his 2007 'Black Metallic' solo performance here from Tractor in Seattle, and you'll see what I am talking about. He's absolutely nailed the vocal there, so much so that is sounds better than on the album!

[jamo387]

Catherine Wheel ! What a great band... Check out Crank, nuther classic. You can't go wrong with any of their CD's. You have to listen a few times before it clicks. Interesting factoid is that Rob is younger cousin of Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden Fame.

[rg2027x]

@jamo387 yep...on all..lol. tho for me just 1 listen I was hooked!

[SuperMario16bit]

Shoegaze is so awesome, can't believe greatness like this was popular way back when. What happened :(

[rg2027x]

@SuperMario16bit fluoride in the water maybe? I wonder myself..

[lowfirepierce]

@ckobesko Ignore this doofuses comment, he just came here to troll this video because I angered him by pointing out his ignorance in the field of something completely unrelated (electronics). He listens to country music and has videos documenting track lighting in his basement. Enough said.

Catherine Wheel are epic.

[ckobesko]

um sure..

[mjsocrates]

Absolutely glorious.

[kylenavyguy]

So underrated this lads, they should've been a LOT bigger!

[madaikings]

Thanks

[h20transmission]

holy fuck, since when was mtv this cool ?

[antman0719]

@h20transmission In the 90s, MTV was awesome! It's so from it now :(

[135scale]

best track ever

[hugginsrob2]

Fukin eh:)!

[candycane15]

Sweet! When was this? Thanks for posting!!

[PainkillerThePigeon]

@candycane15

It aired on 120 Minutes September 12, 1993, so it was probably filmed earlier that week :)