SPK - Metal Dance live

[lesleyblooddotcom]

haha - and slipnot do this as if its a new thing…..

[HeathenSaxon]

@lesleyblooddotcom slipnot, the band for fuck suckers

[vhonda800fr]

i have this on their vinyl album-MACHINE AGE VOODOO(1984),saw SPK live in Sydney several times with karina hayes on vocals:). I also have SYSTEM PLANNING KORPORATION LP from 1979/80. First heard of SPK from a school friend-they've definitely haven't stayed with the same sound,i guess they just evolved,tried to reach a wider audience but like so many bands never made it to the mainstream popular music.

[fstop77]

I like this transitional phase of SPK. Sure it's a softer dance sound but their still some industria lnoise banging around in it. The early releases like Information Overload Unit and Lleichenschrei are my favs. I read somewhere in an interview that they had to change their sound because they just ran out of money. They were totally broke and the band was going nowhere. Well at least they gave us two great albums.

[TheTerrorcouple]

Ah I remember being in the audience at this show - The Tube Channel 4 1984, Great Days.

[Reptile1969]

Oh my god - this is soooooooo not the SPK I was looking for.....what did they do to themselves??????

[KOTundZerstoerung]

What BBC-show is this taken from?

[Amathusukx]

@KOTundZerstoerung Channels 4's The Tube if i recall

[filanth]

you are all nerds!!!!!this song is so trippy!!

[alleygh0st]

People are stuck up elitist pricks. They want to tell you about stuff like creativity, art... but they are just angry nerds.

[sciprio1]

I can't believe that the same group that created the magnificent leichenschrei produced this crap.

[Hematemesis]

@sciprio1 I cant believe you think anybody gives a fuck about your opinion asshole

[ohioisgood]

when spk started to suck....so bad

[Robinis]

Makes you mental :D  not...

[jesusfuckingchrist4u]

industrial pop, channel 4 not the bbc

[jzewizz]

TOO BAD GRAYEM REVELL IZ DOING SOUNDTRAX FOR DISNEY NOW!!!  JOHN ZEWIZZ

[psyberyeti]

Those were the days of the start of Industrial Metal

[gombie]

@psyberyeti

Well this is pretty far from industrial metal.. Even though some people call metal percussion industrial; metal industrial.

The older SpK is probably the ''1st industrial rock band''... But i'd call the factory/slogun/mekano/contact songs Industrial Noise Punk Rock or something.

But i prefer call it just industrial.

[musicalkaratekid]

amazing. people wouldnt expect me to listen to this but i think differently. I am grasped by this song(and video).

[alleygh0st]

@musicalkaratekid haha! same here...

[Shoreth]

100% industrial

[holidaysinsweden]

Underbara 80-tal!

Och så härligt att ha trum-track/sequencer och ändå lyckas vara så påfallande orytmiska!

[veverzay]

this was originally a hole song

[001tape]

you saw spk in 79 :) glaubst du doch selber nicht du vogel talk such lies in shit . hey please be quiet . i will be too . 

[SuperQuines]

omg what a shit

[gmillerd]

The mc for this is just hilarious.

[golgo10000]

ＳＩＮＡＮ ＩＳ ＣＯＯＬ...

[lizrdgolfer]

I saw SPK a few times circa '79 and they were JUST like this(sans Sinan)...recordings were different , yes.

Regardless Graeme Revell pioneered the soung along with Throbbing Gristle. :-)

[lizrdgolfer]

I saw SPK a few times circa '79 and they were JUST like this(sans Sinan)...recordings were different , yes.

Regardless Graeme Revell pioneered the soung along with Throbbing Gristle. :-)

[streetwithoutjoy]

The early recordings os SPK circa 1979 are raw and incredible- TRUE INDUSTRIAL. This dancy electronic stuff- sure the band CALLS itself SPK but the results are pure shit in my opinion. Anybody who likes it is free to but count me out.

[TheTramsen]

this is bullshit

im going back to Test Dept - Total State Machine

[ThorstenPagalies]

I have See SPK live in Hamburg Markthalle a fantastic Show with Fire Metal and Meet.

[kotovski]

this is so fucking cool!

[ZiddanSleaze]

so lovely Trashy. True industrial... I can understand why people hate and laugh at this group and other Industrial Groups... they are more use to shiny bands and groups in the Industrial-metal (e.g. Rammsten & Oomph!).

[j0k3er008]

lol, these people suck

[statenisland777]

oh it seems rough, but it's a real poofy period piece

[TheGreatEcstasy]

@clumpft Hear hear! Fucked and burned eternal!

[srot77]

Wow!!! angry. You must have known this band when they were good then? WHICH WAS FUCKIN NEEEEEVER

[NarcoticAngelo]

even at the time... there should exist limits to innovation

[Hamishtarah]

Einfach Hammer SPK rules!!

Das waren echte und geile Zeiten !!!

[Killnine90]

that chick singer fucking sucks but otherwise SPK kicks ass!

[ColaberMilk]

@BuchenwaldOvenAshes where did you get two autopsies Post Mortem?

[Roddors]

Bass sounds great.

[losbrons]

en este video todo es perfecto

[noivil7]

ma chi so sti coglioni xDxDxD

[rererorererorero]

my band (((Furthest Krueger))) Please retrieve it with youtube.

[dopyJr]

the crowed doesn't know what to do. lol

[KellyDeathSquad]

If you like this check out Wolf 359 - Live At Midgard!

[FatmanTatertot]

Remember when I played the scary SPK song and we couldn't sleep!

[spookygothu]

This is really ahead of it's time damn i feel like a baby watching this o.O!!!

[bravoncho]

I cant agreed more with you, damn, 1984!!! thats my born year, a cant believe lol

[PliSsK]

This reminds me of new order in some respects.

[jmetalkittie]

SPK was around the same time Joy Division was around, before New Order. They were really ahead of thier time. Too bad half the band killed themselves. Very Sad.

[doloroseo]

Definitively genious¡¡, they were 30 years forward on mind over actual bands. Born of the industrial sound like Cabaret Voltaire in its moment, and then Front 242 or Nitzer Ebb. New Romantic was present on minute 1:45 to 1:54 and the New Wave look in all the song, with some Punk agressive kind of movement.

[jumbofrets24]

Holy crapXD

[mrnoiz23]

Right, this is the shites.

[claudissima71]

meravigliosissimi!

[Crijevo]

From "Science" to "Ritual". From "Ritual" to "Entertainment". That's how it works unfortunately... "Metal Dance" is no IOU or Leichenschrei, still it's aggressive pop - a respective hit although a packed in and utterly calculated experience, cashed in on group's earlier audio-visual outrage.

And yes, Sinan sings really dreadful here, I agree :)

[gombie]

Haha... Dreadful... Well, i assume you haven't heard Graeme singing in Oceania (he sings the songs that sinan's suppose to).

Also, Dokument's version of Metal field... sounded really weird (but great).

[deadvolvo1]

@Crijevo. I don't think she can actually hear herself over the backing track or all that ruckus in the background.

Anyways I must be in the minority as I find a certain charm to this performance that is lacking in the Peel Session or other versions.

[macintosser]

I agree. Dilettantism was rife and often really quite charming. I have seen New Order, Human League, and many others who 'couldn't hack it' live, but, that was not what it was about: it was more abut ideas and getting up and doing it. Going flat on your face was all part of the process, something artist don;' set them selves up for anymore. It's either slick nothing at all anymore. Artist nowadays even get injections so they don't sweat on stage and so no nasty pics appear in the press. Tragic.

[renr17]

Hahah, nope, no! Please no Metal Dance, Revell. Why didn't you just change the name of the band, if you're going to give us this shit?

[gombie]

They kinda went from acronyms to just simple SPK

[clumpft]

This is fucking puerile shit, and a totally different band as far I'm concerned, oh except for a few people banging bits of metal. The singer's just awful! They sound like fucking New Order! Arrrrgghhhhh

[Merzbowxnoise]

That cant be SPK.

SPK sounds normaly more aggressive.

[DALLASTAPES]

do you know teh Nine Inch Nails or depeche mode. what do you think they get their inspiration from?

and now listen to ya christina and britney songs and let us enjoy purely industrial pioneers! *tz tz tz

[jamschnitter]

It beats the crap out of the performance by PIL, plus it's awesome to see the band perform since they haven't been around for over 20 years it seems.

[merdailloux]

gay ass?

poor turd

[neuromantik1981]

the live bass makes this version so much better than any of the recorded versions

[jamschnitter]

I wonder what the audience reaction would be if they played Slogun.

[SPKoldrecordings]

Try some 1979 SPK , click to visit SPKoldrecordings

[FeralBeast666]

I love how, at this era, they were poppy and completely off the wall at the same time. It's a great paradox.

[ZLUGGO]

Superb!

[Ulmeyda08]

Didn't a member of SPK go on to make a whole album about Car Crashes.

[gombie]

tone generator? was it 2 spk-members who made a suicide... probably not one of them..

[Ulmeyda08]

it's called "Crash Injury Truma" and it was made by a guy called Lustmord who joined SPK in 1982.

[nouveauxdecadence]

OH YEAH!

This is THE shit!

FABULOUS +

[gombie]

can you believe that the latest work from SpK is from 2007? it's a Jackson 5 remix... even tough i think it's only by graeme revell.

[Ravenixrising]

Haha, the BBC must have been shitting bricks at this stuff.

[alastair415]

@Ravenixrising This wasn't on BBC. It was on Chanel 4's The Tube, The best music show of its day, and since. I remember seeing this when it first aired.

[Ravenixrising]

@alastair415 Ahhh sorry, my bad, I thought it was TOTP or something. :P

[srot77]

Why??? because they think they're cool but aren't or because she sounds like a strangled cat with oral thrush.

[Arathnis]

@srot77 You're trying too hard to hate them. You defeat the entire purpose of music. Just hush up.

[lagowski]

@Ravenixrising It was Channel 4 - the BBC would never allow portable fire on any show :-)

[vadimfv]

ah, Graeme Revell in his youth before he made his fortune in movie soundtracks

[kenotram]

Great to hear again , I ve got the 12" version in the attic

[gombie]

I like this version way more than the studio-version..

[jamschnitter]

same, though the studio version is good too, be better if they included this version at the end of Machine Age Voodoo as a bonus track

[rivalviral]

I think that's the strangest music performance I'm ever going to see...

[gombie]

If i remember right, spk used to have dead animals on stage... Even Kmfdm did that (they threw dead mouses to the audience).

[thereofone]

you live a sheltered life

[rivalviral]

can you think of any stranger ones offhand?

[242w242]

i 've just red to many ''clever'' comments hier SPK rules!this song too!

[mrnoiz23]

Yea, WTF? Such BS

[semlacka]

urrrrh, so intensive!!! makes me wanna thrash my room into pieces!

[GasmaskAvenger]

Although Synthpop SPK is still better than a thousand gangsta rap groups, Controlled Bleeding pulled off the whole "Stepping Beyond the Boundaries of Industrial Music & trying different styles of music" more successfully

I prefer real pre-Metal Dance SPK over this goofy stuff

[MagnitudePerson]

Dance Metal And Techno Metal excistss alot, and is getitng mistaked whith REAL Industrial music.

[kombikrajsta]

Great Song.I like much more first two albums and ep's,but this Industrial Synth Pop is quite good.

[SPKoldrecordings]

fuck this lame shit, come and enjoy the real SPK

[jacobgoldbergsongs]

fuck yeah

[musicaldogspetco]

SPK was so much better when they were just an industrial band.  This singer is terrible and this disco shit stinks!

[kalibhakta]

Yeah, I'm just not digging the singer at all.

[rutger67]

I fully agree. The 12" Metal Dance is definitely one of the best songs from the 80's. This clip is from The Tube broadcast on swedish television

[VIMaggotVIBrainzVI]

Damn man, that's what I call true industrial, bangin' on sheets of metal with crowbars. Now I know how they achieved that distinctive percussion sound on Leichenschrei.

[legalize000]

sick shit, i'm feeling it

[swearbear]

Surgical Penis Klinic! (or something...)

[vyqxendenny]

Had them on vinyl. Those were the days.

[Kartofflesalad]

Reminds me of Xmal Deutchland....

Was the lead singer in that band???!

[ekul4997]

She was called Sinan. I had a crush on her!

[longinusmaximus]

ming ho yao yishi kogao mi hung. CHO YISHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE­EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!.............­....... NANA TEH, FAO HOOSHI!

[Jormunbong]

Are you dancing right now? Caus i fucking doooo

!!

[angry77no]

12" maxi version of Metal Dance rules!

[juicedrinker6969]

I agree, the 12" version is a fantastic mix and one of the best 80's songs.

[MAGUS1947]

Saw SPK in a tiny club in Birmingham where some blokes hair went up in flames cos he was dancing in the grinder sparks - laugh, i nearly pissed my pants. Happy days

[massmouth]

Ha ha oh yes happy days indeed. You must have seen them just before me as I went along to the ICA in London and they only performed two tracks as the fire brigade had banned the use of angle grinders and other fire generating devices! Didn't stop them though and they provided plenty of sparks before the gig was stopped someway through the 2nd track. Was being recorded for John Peel and I still have the tape some where.

[fstop77]

This is very interesting SPK performance. It's nice to see them trying to mesh some of the the grit of the early days with their new dance direction. Unfortunately, the album MACHINE AGE VOODOO contained none of this.

You must understand that one of the two founding members committed suicide and his girlfriend died two days later. When that happened the sonic turmoil of the early days died with him.

[ResidentMich]

I remember this night on The Tube. Loved it then as I do now. Reminiscent of Tom Ellery. Same region.

[cam6389]

interesting.

i've never listened or heard SPK even existed. i just stumbled across them while i was looking up stuff on Lustmord lol.

this isn't exactly wat i was expecting..

i like the use of the axel grinder. but i dont know if that is part of hte song or jsut for show.

[CaseofGlass]

if you are looking for good SPK, then check out Information Overload Unit and Leichenschrei

[beowulven]

SPK did some incredible stuff, and... this. I'd have more respect for them if I thought they were in on the joke. Unfortunately...

[Sebhelyesfarku]

What a bunch of metal bangin disco fags

[presleyfannumber1]

I don't think Information Overload Unit or Leichenschrei sound anything like TG. When they began they were trying to emulate Metal Urbaine, for chrissake! Saw their first concert, saw the Brickworks gig, lived with Tone Generator. Btw, the flamethrower story IS true, but it was winter, the guy was wearing a warm, heavy woolen overcoat and it was no harm done. And yes, I regret the demise of the "industrial" SPK, as many ex-members do...

[eternalabyssfall]

Perhaps you're right about Leichenschrei but there are definately similarities between the music on IOU and the music of TG. I'm sorry but TG MUST have had an influence on their sound,whether you care to admit it or not. The song 'Beruftbervot' on IOU has a percussive beat that is almost identical to one used by TG. SPK did have their own aesthitics though,that is more important.

[beowulven]

I respectfully disagree, it appears from interviews that SPK took little or nothing from TG.

[taoist77]

It appears that SPK thrived on misinformation in their interviews. And SPK had an image and aesthetics that were original, but musically on those first 2 LP's (which were Great!)I think TG's influence was undeniable, but if they were to admit to that,then they would obviously lose credibility, they didn't want to be lumbered in with the Industrial 'scene'.

[L2SparkSharingan]

OMG SPK IS MY TAG

[languagerecovery]

disgusting

[necrosifilis]

you left put SPK as tag

[industrialvideos]

Video added to playlist.

[Leitmotivation]

shes the biggest mistake of it...

[ffggssll]

SPK were an incredibly influential and understated band.

They were politically active,and published manifestos of situationist-type ideals. Graeme Revell stated in the early 80s that the group's aim was to "Shock people out of complacency."

I got into SPK and EN in high school,I even built my own drum kit from scrap metal,and me and a group of friends recorded an 'album' in a junk yard, smashing up cart bodies. It's really great to find other appreciators of this innovative breed of music.

[worshipper777]

Hey man, still got those recordings of your music? Encode them in mp3, we want to listen!

[Leitmotivation]

which one ist graeme revell?

[JcYADDA]

in the cap with flamethrower

[Asrakorn]

i need this song in instrumental

sorry for my bad english :(

[taoist77]

Checkout the Polish experimental band 'Tacuara nod' elsewhere on youtube.

[machine1313]

FABULOUS..THANK YOU

[err0r]

They look like retards. GR got what he deserved for selling Tone Gen out.

[eumani]

:D esto esta cojonudo

[bofflunz]

wow, i even couldn't think when listening to this track. just dancing. SPK worked for me. even in their industrial times.

unforgotten track.

[taoist77]

These guys(minus the female singer) were awesome back in 1980-82,when they were throbbing gristle copycats. Then look what happened when they became depeche mode/test dept wannabe's.Horrible!

[AnthonySpeed]

shut up and do your own shit!

spk was never cpiing tg, and by the way look what gpo is up to nowadays.

so lets like or dislike it but spitt not around like that.

songs of bazantinic flowers are still great

wishes @p

[taoist77]

re;AnthonySpeed. ?????? Listen to 'Infomation overload unit' from 1981. (SPK first full album-and excellent!). And try tell me it does'nt sound like TG! SPK took TG's sound one step further and pioneered the 'industrial' sound. But when they did this shit they were not very good,when caberet voltaire started making 'accessible' music they were pretty good,but not these. Sorry! Thats my opinion.

[swampman]

Completely agree!!

[worshipper777]

Ridicolous... SPK were around much before Test Dept., when they released IOU and Leichenschrei there were no Test Dept. around! And they weren't TG copycat, full different story.

[taoist77]

Why are you telling me that spk were around before test dept,like I don't already know? Of course they were!! But by 1983 Test Dept and Einsturzende Neubauten were becomming known. I think it's rather obvious that they were jumping on some kind of commercial band wagon with machine age voodoo, but but unlike fellow industrial artists caberet voltaire and DAF who became successfully quite popular by 83 SPK, flopped big time. Are you aware that graeme revell signed huge contract with elektra??

[taoist77]

...........And IOU and Leichenshrei are magnifico albums. I know there was no Test dept and depeche mode around when IOU was released, but they had just come out when Leichenshrei was released. But I'm not talking about them albums sounding like them of course not!!!! I'm talking about this song and the machine age voodoo album in 1983!! - I'am a huge fan of SPK before they changed in 1983

[smkinnear]

The original version of this song which was brought out as a 7" single before they signed to Elektra I thought was excellent. The remake for Machine Age Voodoo (and in fact the whole album) was pretty weak. The later more ambient albums were hit and miss (but when they were good they were excellent). But Auto Da Fe is still the best.

[taoist77]

Auto Da Fe is indeed a splendid compilation!

[foodafokkarez]

I remember watchng this on TV.Shame CD reissue of MachineAgeVoodoo finally availble hasn't got this 12inch single mix version included as an extra track.(Album version of MetalDance sucks im my opinion).

[guitarfreak1985]

hahahahaha this is an embarrasment to music

[vilepete]

Why?

[josepho711]

omg this band sux balls

[Spectres]

You got that right...the band sucks and they suck each other.

[SpinixRafal]

Go listen to your fucking Shakira and shut the fuck up

[DerVampyrEngel]

and you would know all about sucking wouldn't you Spectres you fucking thick yankee pleb scumsucking dog

[Spectres]

Hey Campydick...this band is so gay...I guess that's why you favored it you faggot.

Oh...nice 2 month delay in posting this comment you dumbfuck.

[DerVampyrEngel]

Well I see you answered you fucking dumb and stupid assfucker that crawled from your mother's shit, better that the closet bendover bands you love you fucking ugly prick who needs to fuck dpogs because even the gays don't wish to diesase their bodies with you Spectres, ugly dogfucker

[Zeerohaka]

All i read was: "Fuck bullshit asshole fuckhead fuck fuck fuck!!"

I don't know how you get so angry of some sad little man/boy you never even seen before. :\

[davethecrow]

drivel

[NewWaver80014]

I was just thinking - would it be accurate to refer to Graeme and Sinan as the John and Yoko of Industrial music?

Yes, I am aware that they're both from different countries fram J & Y, and Graeme's beefier than John, and Sinan's a bit mellower than Yoko.

But I see some similarities too, in their personal/musical history, and the way they've worked together.

Is it just me?

[Justynka29]

I think it's funny....hehehehe :)

[NewWaver80014]

Surreal. I'm reminded of Sinan's comment about SPK's approach back in 1984.

I'm paraphrasing slightly here, but she basically said their goal was to put music on paper... then roll it up and blow into it, like a trumpet.

No wonder Graeme loves her. :)

[Malin242]

Brilliant!

[numberstation]

I ain't heard this for 23 years.I remember lying in summer fields with my teenage friends and this was playing on a ghetto blaster on a C60 cassette.Happy days!

[jecohm]

so many of you have been to the movies and been enchanted by Grame Revells sound tracks without knowing.. he is still on the productive path, he's the guy hiting metals in this, and doing the music....

[Thrillkisser]

Exactly! He also does the incidental music for the CSI TV show. Graeme has an incredible list of credits to his name.

The Peel Session version of this track is amazing. I actually remember seeing this particular episode of The Tube. It used to be shown on MTV every other Sunday night. Those were the days! ;-)

[DrMasopic]

Ohhhhhhh so that's why it's called junk funk....DUDE!

[sevhead]

I just think SPK are great, period. Not the best performance, but it's very audacious, and that in and of itself lends merit.

[teargarden]

....there are black holes in space that do not suck as much as this does.

[coso182]

piece of shit!

[Hematemesis]

Come on puritans, even Genesis P orridge had his pop moments, This song is OK, plus the bassist almost get a fucking hit in his head at the end

[EYEmusique]

It's hilarious when people say this is a "sell out" because if you listen to it, it's very discordant and most people would think "what's that awful noise?!?"

I GREATLY prefer early SPK as it's more organic... but have to say this live version, because it is a mess (!), is a lot better than the album it came off. Oh, the chorus is awful though - getting your g'friend to be vocalist when they can't sing is a very bad idea!

[donkey1888]

I saw them play live in Melbourne and they were fantastic , lots of grinding sparks into the audience .

[cybeavertoo]

i saw them do this pyromaniacs after them play-backing(!) all of zamia lehmanni on 'live'stage. the flames got into the wooden and paper embellishments, the public fled when the jumped into the crowd with their oildrums, they were hurled back on stage by the securitybully's. it was funny total anarchy and they came away with it ;-)-

[sysvrev0]

gee. sounds like fun. too bad i missed THAT!