Art of Noise - Beatbox (Diversion One)

[warminator]

The entire album is a masterpiece. No wonder bits of it got resampled over & over again by various artists in their songs.

And yes... I think everyone agrees on the fabulous piano ending.

[HandsomeSoulbrother1]

Simply get your groove on!

[aimeemacdn]

Strange room

[aimeemacdn]

I don't like the other stuff, sorry



[12161euclid]

love AON. this is a great album from start to finish. lyrics? sometimes they aren't necessary.

[FunkyCarbohydrate]

This I wanna hear in my funeral.

[Minan3]

I always wondered what it was like in the 80's since I've always heard it from my father, he still has this CD.

[texasvanity]

My FAVORITE part of this song is the bit from 1:40 to 1:50

[mexicandy72]

oooooh! GOD, MY WONDER YEARS!

[mixrj]

beatbox is a excelent beat!

art have yours own particularity and personality.

AON is my mdma Thanks.

[dacramps11]

Best song ever thanks :)

[matbeth06]

remember buying the album who's afraid in november 1984 don't get stuff like this now more the pity

[JoeyBang16]

tech n9ne- bout ta bubble

[buttdisease]

piano at end is beautiful!

[PlatinumPassionsEnt]

@buttdisease Love it!

[Billkwando]

A week later, I'm still listening to it at least once a day.

[Billkwando]

This is the version I grew up with, here in America. I love it so much!!!!

[MrQbanD]

Dammm that kick and snare ...DAMMMM

[AttackMyFriends]

This really does remind me of Bout ta Bubble by Tech N9ne

[08241440]

@AttackMyFriends duh, cuz he used this beat 2 make Bout Ta Bubble.

[AttackMyFriends]

@08241440 damn, why does every body have to use old songs to make new shit, be original. Tech also used Rock me Amadeus by Falco to make I'm a Playa.

[hakimgreen7]

One of my favorites, of any genre of music.

[Slicknificent]

Tech N9ne sampled this.

[richardo930]

esta cancion me recuerda cuando jugaba en gta vice city stories

[autodafeh242]

Love the Art of Noise....next to Kraftwerk and Yello..one off the most perculiar bands...

[rafyraf100]

love those cuts!!!!

[kakianyx]

Thanks for posting this awsum song!

[ZrOvSbLtY]

I agree with you guys about Kraftwerk and the Art of noise and I'll raise you a Manparish!

[Minan3]

I like how they closed with the piano...that was fitting!

[303shaunl]

@Minan3

Loved that ann dudley piano at the end, good stuff

[Minan3]

@303shaunl Every instrument has their voice, but to me, the piano has THAT unknown voice. I loved the ending to this music...

[sub333]

@303shaunl Think it was Jools Holland who played it, bizarrely...

[XMAN4708]

I agree not only was this song underrated the group was too!!! i love the Art of Noise!!!

[TonyOllin]

Like if you knew Timbaland sampled the sound at 0:06 for Nicole Wray's "Make It Hot"!

[cavaleer]

I remember this. haha It was cute, still is.

[rj13king]

Vice City Stories

[kubicajakub]

7 minutes intro to great ending....

[wolfgangdwolfmeister]

Hello peeps! Check out the piano version of this song on my page!

[SuperMrstriker]

vice city stories!

[Jurgenmeoff]

Bopping my head like Im having a seizure! Just did a back spin.....ON CARPET...OUCH!

[thebrickmaster]

THIS SONG IS A GOOD STRIDE SKATING SONG LOVE IT...

[RastaProductionsDe]

@UltraPropofol you´re right dude!

[2003DSGMach1]

NICE! brings me way back ... remembering when i use to sit up late late night listening to 98.7 kiss (ny radio station with DJ RED ALERT !!!! (goes bizirk)

CLASSIC!

[JazzyDoede]

The time signature of the transition is roughly at 7:19.depending on when you begin to fade the main score into the background.

If anyone knows how to play the piano by ear (or want to learn) you should try this one. You can REALLY FEEL how good this song is. I was a novice at the time but by the time I learned how to play this one, I felt like a MASTER!!

[antblue363]

Classic !!!

[xenomagnus]

•is crying• this is Beatbox's son...

[PBL187]

love the xylophone parts to this lol and of course the drumbeat. and this spawned the best tv theme ever imo

[Wiseupproductions]

What I mean by “underrated” is that they did not get their due props. Lot’s of other groups sampled or stole their material and received the credit instead of “Kraftwerk” A perfect example would be Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock” a complete rip off of “Trans Euro Express”

[Truckteacher]

@UltraPropofol Ear sex?? If there was such a thing, this would be it!!!

[pkprzemo11]

agree with UltraPropofol ;)

[absdilsey]

Maaaaaa ...Have you seen my Pumas and cardboard...?

[zuk737]

in Hawaii, Schofield Barracks, in my MGB, on the way to the (Keys), Waikiki....

[racecrasher]

3 think the song is by Justin Bieber

[Truckteacher]

@racecrasher Who??

[PBL187]

@racecrasher I doubt that. not veryone is into alternative music. this does sound good on vice city stories tho lol esp with the swearing DJ

[2kes1]

Kraftwerk was the sh...............! AWE man. Anybody remember doing the prep to this song? Anyone remeber the song CLOWNs I think that was the name of it?

[2kes1]

Kraftwerk was the sh...............! AWE man. Anybody remember doing the prep to this song?

[demo4eva]

good song use to lisson to this years ago and got them to play this is me school play when i was a kid

[Johnathan650b]

when i was a lil kid from when i was a lil toddler to 4th grade i use to have this album and all the songs i mean ALL of em i'd use to pretend that the furnitures tables or wat ever i can find was my drums! and then pretend im karate dancing lol fun memories :*)

[GodsAwesumChild]

The Art of Noise is the shit man people dont make music no more

[Jurgenmeoff]

Who else is sitting at the PC bopping their heads furiously, with the occasional pop and lock move busting out??

[betom62]

@Jurgenmeoff  me !!!!

[PlatinumPassionsEnt]

@Jurgenmeoff I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love it!

[leatherneck1944]

penis

[Sunchaser13127]

7:19 The lil' touch of genius from MADAME Dudley

[lashay89ful]

love it this is my favorite version i promise u. Just dancing with that special someone and then go home to make love off the slow version u feel me do i need to say more.......

Kina B.

[Wiseupproductions]

Kraftwerk and The art of noise are probably two of the most underated groups ever. Thank's for posting.

[Eightball69]

@Wiseupproductions How can Kraftwerk be underrated FFS? Did you perhaps mean massively successful and hugely influential? Nothing f**king underrated about them at all!

[Minan3]

@Eightball69 I had the kraftwork CD, but then my younger sister said she used it to scratch herself. The CD was ruined... :(

[suereed]

@Wiseupproductions I would hardly call Kraftwerk underrated. I would imagine that most electro musicians from 1980 to 2011 would cite Kraftwerk as the moat influential band they have ever heard.

[fuhgetabouddit]

@suereed I completely agree in reference to some electronic artist citing "Kraftwerk" as their inspiration, but I still don't think "Kraftwerk" got the recognition they truly deserve. I think the groups that sampled or copied their work received more credit and were more popular then "Kraftwerk" especially in the Hip-Hop relm. Which makes "Kraftwerk" sadley, underated.

[DanielL5583]

@Wiseupproductions Actually, those are my two favourite groups.

Why can't we have this sort of music again?

[DontQuoteMeBut]

@Wiseupproductions Add Yello to that :)

[ryckak]

@Wiseupproductions I wouldn't say so. Both bands are very well known, but they have a very specific audience, that's all

[southpaw2k1]

@Wiseupproductions Roger that.

[throbgrist]

The original raw piece is much better in my opinion as well. I remember listening to that version during a chilly February weeknight after school in 1984. Went to the mall straight from school just to grab a vinyl copy and excitedly put it on the turntable and listened unbelievingly to some of the best music ever recorded.

I like this version as well but it didn't get me as much as the original.

[throbgrist]

Three people just don't get it.

[jonnyf1970]

Ear sex ? I love it ! I used to listen this serruptitiously on my walkman when I was supposed to be asleep.

[sub333]

Yeah? Oh no, OH NO I DON'T BELIEVE IT-- BU-BU-BUM

[PBL187]

@sub333 I have heard that intro on Daft, u can hear a male voice on a fone but not wat he is sayin, just before she says "oh no oh no I don't believe it"

[MegaMaryThomas]

THIS is the ONLY VERSION TO HAVE!

YES!!!!!!!!!

[KilobyteBrain]

Holy crap this is good. The version on their (relatively) new Influence album cuts out so much.

[MegaMaryThomas]

@MDkid1 the end with the piano playing is so sick!

Love it!

[getoutandgetfit]

I like the synth flute solo at 3:10. It very floaty in a digital way and then the toy trumpet that answers the call. NICE

[JazzyDoede]

My Favorite version of this song!! Thanks for posting!!

The piano solo that starts at 7:19 is a classic transition from hip-hop to jazz. It moved me so much I learned to play it by ear and developed a greater appreciation for jazz ever since...

[getoutandgetfit]

@JazzyDoede The piano is so classy at the end. Showing the complexity in a acoustic styling.

[MDkid1]

@JazzyDoede show us! don't be shy! :)

[MegaMaryThomas]

@JazzyDoede Yes indeed!

[southpaw2k1]

@JazzyDoede I remember breakdancing to this and I used to imagine a pianist in the middle of the auditorium playing while my friends and I are breakdancing in slow motion...Then the pianist disappears and the other breakers wave bye to me and just walk away in the sunset...if I ever directed the video for it. It kinda chokes me up a little bit sometimes when I hear that part.

[sonicdeath10]

This is their best album but I have to admit I like them all quite a lot except for Claude Debussy. I think my favorite song is "Backbeat" frankly.

[Jurgenmeoff]

I had my whole family dancing to this. Then I drove it home with a robot into a back spin.

[brian70881]

hell yes it's ear sex-for the soul.

[FrankieCutlassShow]

CLASSIC ART OF NOISE!

[SuperNascar67]

where is music like this today !!!!!! kids dont respect music anymore



[syikom]

quiet please

[Sabrewave]

very influential record for me. taught me art could be music and vice versa. oh oh no!

[sonicdeath10]

Ba ba ba ba bo. ba ba ba ba bo,

[Thejbirdy]

I always thought they dubbed the brass sound from Yes: "Owner of a lonely heart" sounds like it...

Used to break dance to it......LOL.

[TheJediCharles]

@Thejbirdy

I remember making the same I.D. back in the day. It was likely sampled from there.

[Thejbirdy]

@TheJediCharles Awesome.

[shdoug]

@Thejbirdy At 6:02 that would be Toto's Rosanna, also on the chart in '83.

[Thejbirdy]

@shdoug Yes! Thank you very much there shdoug.

Awesome.

[gordonlisa]

brilliant ! cant make my mind up which version is best - this one or the one with ice t rapping to it which apeared on the film breakdance , i can listen to them both as much as each other , if you havent heard the ice t version check it out

[Minan3]

Im sure everyone listening to this waited for the end to come just to hear the piano. Such a great closing to joyous music.

[Minan3]

@UltraPropofol an eargasm if you will

[KONGZILLAGOD1]

THIS WAS SO THE SHIT AND STILL IS YEAHHHHHHH

[kraken06]

I only saw videos from Art of Noise on NBC on "Friday Night Videos". If I missed it, there was no telling when the video would show again

[JacuzziBooty]

Awesome song !

[djinnov8]

That piano section puts the whole song into perspective - musical foreplay

[kirstycarmen]

The piano at the end is gorgeous.

[nervoust]

@kirstycarmen

THIS!!!! When i was in the service, would sneak and play the whole album on watch.......Get Off My Lawn...etc

[monluv1214]

luv dancin to this!!!!!!!!!!

[Dymez187]

this shit is so tuff ...love dancing too it!!

[MrFatmakk]

...great recording but it's not as tight as the original raw version..thanks anyway. It was a good listen.

[MrSKINFLICK]

Great load-up.....errh......upload among all the shit-sound postings of this classic.

Some "load-uppers" never learn it.

You did - thank you !

[yamahaeuro]

LOVE IT..

[PhuckHue2]

this is some freaky shit

[JayTelepathixSSXp007]

This takes me back to the days when we would be snowed in in the winter and would watch Friday night videos

[meechamaka411]

I had both singles ("Beat Box" 'n this version) back in '84...the album was sick, too, wit' "Battle"

[hairyreddick]

nope, the roving piano leading to the guitar is wrong. totally wrong. guitar wrong.

likin the raw version. the bells that reinforce the melody wrong as well.

enjoid the raw version back in the day. this is a commercial rework.

enjoid the raw when it was.

art of noise once. and never again. as it is, meeting the great silence, as it should be. and never again. once only. to our dismay. enjoyd the noise.

forever.

[Sabrewave]

still gives me goosebumps and a fever even after all this time.

[itotophe]

I discovered this Art of noise song from a megamix (watch?v=DjbHIdJ3BFI at 02:44). Then bought all AON albums. I even played the piano end myself. Art of noise worth to be known.

[mikeflbiker]

See if you can catch the horn break from Toto's "Rosanna" just past 6:01. Don't ask me why it's in there.. It took me many listenings to place where I had heard that horn break sample.

[Bjorklover2]

I love this track, it reminds me of being a kid running loose around the house while my crazy new-wave hippy parents played the hell out of this album stoned out of their minds

[fraz72]

@cartermcpyro. for some reason the piano at the wells me up i gues because the blend is so smooth that they only could have done it themselves.

[BougNeg1]

Ditto...on the piano

[whitbygothic]

Do not be afraid of the Art of Noise.......just stick your headphones or surround sound on and freak out! ;-)

[deahvo]

Hey glad someone out there still has that cut, Love playin this song on the drums.

[seanandtracey1]

takes me back to high school-our marching band playing this on the field for the halftime show...Harvey Red Raiders!!! Painesville, Ohio

[alvindlee1]

@seanandtracey1 that means ur ass is as old as me....1986 alumni

[seanandtracey1]

@alvindlee1 yup!

[yamahaeuro]

I LOVE IT !!!!!

[whatanightmare1]

I have loved this since it came out in 1984.

[rek867]

education, for your ears. still tastes great after all these years.

[marc08110]

TIMELESS CLASSIC

[houseofjrk]

when you listen to this in headphones its awesome the mixing and the panning from one side to the other and Anne Dudley on the Piano just killss it at the end she is sick on the 88 keys i used to rewind it just so i could learn it play that part by ear

[red03mitsu]

@houseofjrk i'm doing that right now. didnt think it was possible but this song sounds even better.

[sillygal25]

that's why i love this one, the piano!!!!!!!

[aftereight01]

OMG I never heard this version of Beatbox. It is the sh*t !!

[1devo6587]

i have this version on the whos afraid album! its awsome!

[tonyzackery]

if you can listen to this cut and not be movin' in your seat, you must be DEAD!

[illmech]

eeeellllll. this version is corn-ball

:-(

[RThompson313]

YEEEAAAH !!!! This was that joint back in the Day

[nathanzworld]

Anne Dudley is an amazing piano player. Full Stop.

[rage969]

This is truly an absolute classic. The Art of Noise was groundbreaking and truly one of the greatest groups and most influential of all time.

[rage969]

Premier Breakdancing Song, Beautiful Piano at the end Shit this song is near perfection. Big ups to all the people who can appreciate this and what it stands for.

[meloman3]

One of the "premier" break dance songs of the 80's.  Many memories of poppin and lockin' to this and carrying a BIG radio bumpin' this on cassette...

[tomgreene121]

OMG I have been looking for this song for years!!! Brings back memories of breakdancing in the 80's

[ausaurwest]

I was told a long time ago that this song was a dedication to The Human Beatbox of the Fat Boys. Anyway, groovy jam! These Brits have a lot of soul.

[ZeroCorpse]

These guys made me so jealous, as a young musician, that they had a Fairlight and I had a run-of-the-mill Akai AX-60 and Roland D-50.

I wish I'd had a Fairlight when I was still making music.

[MDkid1]

@tlnet37 done the demo yet? would love to have it

[shabazz120]

Still Fresh this very day!

[spotz62]

Der Pianopart am Ende ist das Beste, was ich jemals gehört habe......

[LeTae1996]

I remember when my two older sisters used to jam this song all the time! Such great memories...thanks for posting this!  =)

[darla1970]

Awesome....just like it was back then.

[eXravor75]

toujours une tuerie ce morceau ... avec un piano magnifique a la fin

[tonyzackery]

blew my mind the first time I heard this. had to replay it over and over...

[Minan3]

@tonyzackery i like how the music takes a rest and then you hear the piano at the end. to me this music just like a medley of emotions put into one set of musical instruments

[twopara68]

trevor horn, genius,nuff said

[fraz72]

@cartermcpyro yes it is

[romeroenrique]

Never realized who smooth the piano playing was at the end! epic tune! :)

[LeCutter]

Ahh yeah, one of my faves from the 80s.

[preciseroofer]

Respect nuff said right!!!

[xbox50000]

where can i get this in britain on cassette or cd?

[xbox50000]

@xbox50000 scew dat, got a recor player now!

[wizeallah]

HIP HOP 4EVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I TEARED UP AT THE END OF THIS SONG. KRS ONE SAID HIP HOP IZ PSYCHOLOGICAL. I BELEIVE HIM.............. THANK U ART OF NOISE. B-BOY SINCE 78' PEACE TO TUPLAG

[VyktorAbyss]

really badly dated, but still excellent composition/transitions.

[TSearcy]

I called this in as a request on the radio. I waited 2 hours until they finally played it. I wanted to be sure to get the whole song on cassette.

There was no instant gratification back then. You had to wait for a song and/or a video to play.

[valeo626]

@TSearcy i use the internet. and i still waited my whole life to hear this.

[Arthro92]

@TSearcy

You are so right. The many hrs. I would sit next to my radio with my finger on the pause button, ready to record my favorite songs.....LOL!!!!! Were those not the good days?!