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  • NIN Fucking rocks and so does Cabaret Voltaire so If you don't like it get a fucking tree on your ass ..

  • This song holds up very well. The mid 80s is not their best era thou.

  • The only reason people hate on NIN is because they wear mainstream like 7 years ago. Do you guys honestly hat NIN that much? If NIN started playing on the radio, would it just seem like ear rape to you? I think if your honest with yourselves, you would admit that NIN sound pretty good.

  • The guy with the hat looks like the swedish guy in Hell on Wheels.

  • video bought by the Museum of Modern Art--

  • spitze, gebe 5 Sterne

  • The "preacher" character looks a lot like Bruce Spence...

  • on a real note, the screamers were doing this shit back in 77 LIVE at punk shows in L.A.

  • Tears for fears was more industrial techno and cooler than nine inch anal beads.

  • @TheNewMusicNetwork

    Tears for Fears were never cool. Reznor may have wished to be like them in the mid 80s thou.

  • @Nobodyreallyatall tff were pretty cool and rather popular back in 83-86. They made some sick synth tracks.

  • trent stole everything from billy idol. case closed

  • I hate nine inch nails and would personally like to punch that little midget turd reznor and his gook wife in his/her jewish beaks.

    I just shit on eMpTy-V's hero

  • blah blah nine inch nails blah coil blah blah blah pretty hate machine blah Throbbing gristle blah skinny puppy NIN blah blah Kraftwerk blah pioneers blah blah blah.

  • @skatetolive34 shut your pie hole and get in the kitchen.

  • @skatetolive34 blah blah blah killing joke blah blah blah ministry blah blah wax trax

  • Sometimes I really miss the 80s - not the times but the music being made!

  • @MsWetTowel Yes totally, Ever since Analog keyboards started using Digital sampling the Music Lost its creativity. Its evident from 93 onwards. I have Analaog gear and nothing I have heard from today comes close to the depth and Subtle emotion from those glorious instruments.

  • @zark212 Analogue Rulez OK!

  • Had this on Gasoline In Your Eye video years ago and I used to wonder how they managed the overhead curved shots until I spotted the answer in a reflection in the pickup trucks windscreen at 7:08.

  • unbeschreiblich spitze!!!!! 5 Sterne

  • Cabaret Voltaire at their best .

  • @YouTwit: I just made a big mistake & added this video as one of my favorites (pressed the wrong button)! Now, why should I do that when I can't SEE the damn vid, thanks to YOU once again???!!!! I have complained & complained on your ''help page'' (which is of no help!), alongside hundreds of other users, cos this is far from being my first problem I have since YOU decided to change everything....but then you don't care!

    Sorry guys, love this song + vid, but had to get that out of my system!

  • look..we were talking about NINE INCH NAILS! NOT ANY OTHER BANDS HE WAS IN. if u actually read my post u would see that i said NIN STARTED AS SUPPORT TO skinny puppy- THEY WHERE NEVER A SYNTHPOP BAND! trent WAS IN a synthyboy band BEFORE nin! fuck me some of you just get on here to argue and show your lack of education DONT YOU. by the way, your comment about ditching one style for another was absolute rubbish. never heard of ministry then i suppose?! go bother someone else.

  • then we arent talking about n.i.n then are we?? saying that he was in some other band doesnt change the fact that his first tour as n.i.n. was in support of skinny puppy as i said. i never said he wasnt in any shit band i never heard of, like the one you mentioned, and really who gives a toss anyway. are you trying to say that trent has a stronger synthpop lineage than e.g. Ministry? and anyway, again who cares its trent fuckin reznor were talkin about- he's a frickin NOBODY! sound familiar?

  • way ahead of their time

  • 446000 people led to believe that this is " Classic song from the pioners of the industrial rock." fuck me the disinformation is taging hard. how the hell is this industrial rock? Fuck it don't even answer I give up

  • @emile235 i was thinkin exactly that when i saw yr post. not industrial, not rock, not even near eh! next theyl tell us depeche mode are a disco band!!

  • Great upload! Thanks for posting this! 

  • Max Headroom

  • Audio visual perfection. God bless industrial music.

  • every time I lessen to music like this I feel way ahead of time dont know why people look at me like a weird person but I feel so free. free of the system around me. and todays awful pop music.......... sensoriaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

  • @xadiko69 You've got good taste, thats why. Tip of the iceberg, great isn't it.

  • @xadiko69 keep the faith grasshopper, you are on the path to enlightenment.

  • oh I had forgotten all about this old brilliant song!!!

  • O.o

  • You can see why they never made much money back then? Distinctly uncommercial. Some of their stuff is weird with a capital W. This was one of the more 'accessable' songs from their portfolio.

  • What is with all the NIN hating? I fail to see whats wrong with Nin. Coil, Cabs, Nin, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Neu!, Throbbing Gristle, etc.. is all awesome fuckin' music. Whats the problem? If you think NIN sucks i suggest you'd check out 'Closer (Precursor)' a NIN song but a mix from Coil. (Used in the movie Se7en)

  • @texasB666 Certainly today, NIN hating seems silly because from a modern perspective most of the 80s or very early 90s industrial bands seem of a vintage and mold. And I don't myself have anything against NIN. But *at the time*, NIN felt like a latecomer 'sell out' band to a lot of people, and took what was still a pretty small movement and brought it to arenas and mass teenaged popularity. So I think for a lot of people it's historically based and sort of a "you had to be there" thing.

  • @Epiphyte people are cynical about NIN because they started out as a synthy smiley boy band. You can check out the video evidence on youtube

  • @emile235 actually to correct your ignorance- the first set of gigs nin did was in support of skinny puppy! synthy and smiley? u must be high- u want your illusions smashed? go check out super-industrialists 'ministry' and 'with sympathy' if u want synthy homo-ness thats far removed from their present existence. im not into trent anymore, but at least he's kept the faith (not sure which)..can u say that about bigfat al jourgensen! no u cant.

  • @z1rakz1gal you are so wrong. Reznor was in a smiley synth pop boy band called THE EXOTIC BIRDS

  • @emile235 can u read? my post said..'the first gigs NIN did..' not "the exotic birds did..!" comprende? put brain in gear before putting mouth in overdrive perhaps in future.anyway, trent reznor..oh purleaeese, when was the last decade he did anything at all worth hearing by the way?

  • @z1rakz1gal I don't give a flying fuck about early NIN i am telling you that Reznor WAS IN A FUCKING SMILEY SYNTH POP BAND WHEN STARTED OUT AS A MUSICAN FOR FUCK'S SAKE. Can you fuckin grasp that? Fake ass synthy boy band DECIDE to suddenly go all industrial because pop career is failing

  • @z1rakz1gal search for "early trent reznor" on youtube and see what i mean

  • @texasB666 (Also, to be fair, recommending the Coil mix as an entry point to NIN is a little disingenuous in that that track sound 100% like a Coil song rather than a NIN song, much like the Aphex Twin mixes on Further Down the Spiral just sound like Aphex Twin songs.)

  • @Epiphyte Ouch! Actually you had me :) I'm not trying to be condescending btw. The Coil mix actually sounds very much like Coil, yes you're right about that. But you know how people can be, if you know what i mean. I'm 25 and it took years to appreciate all sorts of music. I actually think NIN's GHost album (for a not so old one) is also very good. I grew up with metalheads and even today the fanbase of the genre hasn't changed. They sometimes sound like winey bitches.

  • @Epiphyte Metalheads still live in the past which is very sad. And i guess its the same for some people who dig industrial. Right now, theres a big fuss about the new Morbid Angel album. They call it Morbid Angels's St-Anger. Its not a very good album, but its actually not THAT bad. People should boycot modern pop music which i think is ridiculous and is worth bashing. Not Nine Inch Nails or Morbid Angel.

  • @texasB666

    I hear so much Cabaret Voltaire in Pretty Hate Machine.

  • @texasB666 shut up loser, nin are as lame as you.

  • @texasB666 Because they're depressing and boring.

  • yeah bring back max!

  • Woohoo!

  • industrial rock? They are pioneers of industrial yes but I've never heard anything "rock" in them ... a lot of electro though ;-p PS- love this track.

  • @EYEmusique nag nag nag.

  • @das81 ;-) lol

  • @EYEmusique lofl agreed. rock? that might be killing jokes realm

  • tune

  • neato

  • First time i saw this video was on the Max Headroom show :D They didn't half play some good music on that show!

    This is a great song :D

  • trent reznor will have ripped off mal, don't put the cart before the horse; mal had no confidence in voice (hence his mumbling, being low in the mix, use of tapes), and hated being the cab's front man even more. i've loved them since first seeing them supporting tg at the crypt in paddington, i can't remember how many times i've seen them, and i worked at some bizzare for a few years so i got to know mal as a mate (mutual interest in football and reggae/dub); top bloke.....

  • geil...lange nicht mehr gehört,das waren noch zeiten!!!

  • Like NIN? Meet one of Trent's grandpappys ;)

  • un temazo de Cabaret que me pone como las cabras!!!!

    ñaaaaam ñaaaaamm

  • wot about Fad Gadget and Soft Cell Aircrash about the same time if i remember. Good times !!

  • The iconic Tinsley Towers have been taken down after 70 years of service.

    Classic Sheffield electrowave. Classic video.

  • i like that they mixed the song sensoria with the "do right" sample

  • the cabs were way ahead cause their music is made for NOW

  • Oh the creepy preacher...

  • the song is good but when he says sensoria over and over again. it sounds funny :p

  • mesmeric

  • NIN's "Pretty Hate Machine" is clearly influenced by this.

  • @Laudanum000 its been messing with my head since i read somones top comment of "who is trent reznor" the guys voice is quite spookily similar even

  • Allso they are signed to "Industrial records" right after Throbbing Gristle...

  • God, those eyes of his make me shiver and that pointy toothed smile makes me tingle. But that preacher dude is creepier than the old guy in the Poltergeist movie!

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  • godlike

  • i dont care industrial was way 80's so so if any1 is ripping,,, hit some 80's and ull find the industrial originators

  • 2:42 = EARGASM.

  • @JohnBalance89 pure aural candy.  Richard H. Kirk is a total sound architect, like Boris Blank from Yello.

  • @JohnBalance89 Yep. And in the video accompanied by some Thunderbirds dancing :P

  • Perhaps NiN ripped off this sound, but every genius is so because they stand on the shoulders of giants; the genius that has passed before them.

  • @zee339 Look, NIN didn't rip off ANYONE'S sound (except for maybe when they ripped off Dig It by Skinny Puppy when they recorded Down In It), okay? Cabaret Voltaire were pioneers of industrial, along with Throbbing Gristle and about a thousand other industrial acts. You might as well say Ministry ripped them off, or early Fear Factory, or RevCo. Of COURSE bands who are in the same genre will sound similar. And anyway, I can't name one NIN track that sounds like a single CV track. Snoogans.

  • @DarthTwitch Well put. Fully agree.

  • @TooKoolKris Why thankew very much ;)

  • @DarthTwitch Sin and Slammer.

  • @DarthTwitch ....did you finish reading what i wrote?

  • @zee339 Yes. You still make little sense.

  • @DarthTwitch Also CV weren't industrial anyway they were experimental. If you listen to the really early stuff like Red Mecca and the 1974-1976 compilation you will see just how forward thinking and experimental this band were. Not part of any genre at all, true experimentalists.

  • @DarthTwitch Precisely, but the idiots here have their heads too far up there "experimental" ass. What the fuck is experimental music even? industrial IS experimental music!

  • Can't get enough of this.

  • Wow, fantastic sound!

  • incredibel vid for it's time

  • I never noticed the strobe dance sequence @3:21 before. Some shorter edits dropped that. D'd'd'd'doright ! Max Headroom took that stutter.

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  • 1984, great year/ track, just before "Drinking Gasoline" EP!!

  • Out of time... Perfect.

  • Check out Sluggin Fer Jesus - that IS Cabaret Voltaire right there.........

  • To all CABARET VOLTAIRE FANS ( like me )

    i Highly recommed CABARET VOLTAIRE REWORKS . .

    look for it . . specially the " I WANT YOU " version . . .

    YOU WILL LOVE IT . . . . !!!

  • 3:11 SEIZURIA!!!

  • this video and song is a work of art.

  • @hundhun17 - you're a dumb ass and don't know your music history - all of those bands were out during the late 70s and early 80s, skinny puppy followed later with test department and kmfdm but Chris & Cosey, Chrome, Nurse with a Wound, Psychic TV, Kraftwerk, and Gary Numan among others were all out at roughly the same time -

  • Thanks...i love ...very good rythm...

  • Yes one of the great pioneering dark -electronic bands. But others were earlier: Suicide, Nurse with Wound, Kraftwerk, and Tangerine Dream. Some great late 70's contemporaries were Skinny Puppy and Psychic TV. Early 70's Krautrock scene bands probably originated dark electronica itself.

  • @missjenniferdevi Nice post! Saw Tangerine Dream a LONG time ago. Three dudes sitting in front of big banks of computers! They'd probably have macbooks in front of them now! Yeah, these guys came from somewhere too. All the greats "borrowed" from someone.

  • The Cabs were active since 1973 and were indeed partly influenced by krautrock like Faust, Kraftwerk and Neu!, but NWW, SP and PTV were 80's bands. I'd say The Cabs were one the earliest.

  • This is one of the best songs and best videos of all time.

  • ..so much in love with this band - big influence on who I am now..

  • Nine Inch Nails is fantastic and so was Cabaret Voltaire. Done.

  • do right go to church do right al;lways go rto church n kil your self

  • always the best cabvol. the scene withe the atom power plant is the best :D

  • SKINNY PUPPY WERE THE PIONEERS OF INDUSTRIAL!!!

  • I don't know much about Cabaret Voltaire but I do remembering listening to this track many years ago and lovin' it then and now in 2011 it still sounds great ..its timeless.

  • LOL. You industrial purists are pretty much hipsters who wear a lot more black. Shut the fuck up about who-influenced-who, and whether Reznor is a "poseur" or not and just FUCKING ENJOY THIS FUNKY-ASS TUNE.

    Cabaret Voltaire ftw! <3

  • @faktualerror Industrial purists are pretty much hipsters who wear a lot more black? <None of this matters just generic generalizations. Your a bit late to defend him too. He has not been bashed for at least a month. So everyone had stopped.

  • @Jiveturkey68 WHOA PEOPLE STILL POST HERE?

  • Absolutely awesome, listen to Six Sed Red, they were produced by Cabaret Voltaire and the singer also sang in Soft Cell's Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret.

  • my 2nd favorite CV song.

    I love this

  • I have conducted this experiment in triplicate to confirm...

    This awesome song is even better if you down a double shot of Wild Turkey Rare Breed at the beginning. By 5:35 it is the best song ever.

  • @somedudeinva Lol, someone who knows the power of wild turkey..

  • Seeing caberet voltaire live at hammersmith palais is one of my fondest memories of youth, I went with a mate from work, he has had a big influence on my life. Luigi if you by fluke read this get in touch ! Justin...

  • I definitely don't feel old enough to like Cabaret Voltaire. born in '95, a year after they broke up. I'll just tell myself that I have better than average taste. ;)

  • I purchased MicroPhonies at the Virgin ship in Portsmouth having never heard their music, in either 84 or 85 I think.

    A truly classic album

  • that "do right .. go to church" sample was taken from a speech by a KKK member

  • 2:25 to 2:38 PERFECT ACTING

  • Shit 90's bands like ---- ---- ----- & ---- just ripped off the ideas that had already been laid out as art, in order to fool gullible children and ca$h in on the megabucks. ---- ---- ----- & ---- are totally unacceptable emo acts that are actually celebrated by sick children because of their palpable emotional content, suggesting the artists themselves are sickly with a misguided will.

  • @texasB666 What up Belgium? Drink some of that killer begium beer for me man! Great name for someone from Belgium! Well, i really love this song, so i would probably say Micro - Phonies from '84. That's when i first found out about them. Love that album!!

  • hard to belive these guys were kiking ass back in the dying days of disco.

  • Everyone, you can hate on Trent all you want...But...He did the sound for the original Quake. That is a redeeming quality.

  • @TBFVideoFeed Fuck T.R.

  • Spotted sheffields infamous cooling towers behind where their standing (which is now meadowhall shopping centre) god i miss those towers...

  • Who is Trent Reznor? ;-)

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  • @AustinLuck78 Reznor doesn't even sound like this very much. particularly his post PHM work.

  • @AustinLuck78 He is THE GOD , SEXY GOD, do not know ? ;)

  • @AustinLuck78 One of the greatest pop music producers in the world :)

    But the cabs did it first :D!

  • @AustinLuck78 lol!

  • Kitsch and genius at the same time ... There were very different from "Mix Up" and "Red Mecca", but still good

  • Is there no longer version?

  • Bill Leeb/Rhys Fulber > Trent Reznor

    Real Talk

  • IM TRIPPIN OUT

  • There should be a plaque in M'hell to acknowledge this video/band, even tho' it'd be mostly lost on the sheep now roaming there.

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  • Vaguest memories of this; now re-discovered I can't stop playing it

    Total true GENIUS Timeless

    Love the music + the video - The scary Preacher & the dancing in front of Tinsley Towers, the innovative camera work, Mall's prescence; all of it's perfect .

    - Thanks 4 posting this

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  • what i think is the most powerful about this band is, besides the music, their energy. the energy is something pure and authentic, conveys actually simplicity - which is also obvious in their visual language. Creativity is longing for simplicity. I`m an artist myself and sometimes the most basic idea is the most powerful!!!

  • wow these guys were amazing, I can see some early NIN in them, so influential.

  • unique(somethinge to remember) FOREVER!!!!!!

    Yea,h.

  • this is sensoria(slight difference) fuck the rest.Good uploade!!!!!!THANKS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Hallucinational Stuff. I like .

  • Still have "Nag Nag Nag" on vinyl from '79

  • phenomenal

  • This version of Sensoria is like a mixture of the album versions of Sensoria and Do Right. I think.

  • Omg what a tune; had this 12", danced like a lunatic back in the day..sigh....happy memories..was it really getting on for 30 years ago??????

  • Genius. Radically good track and video! Saw this on TV, on Beatbox, in '85 and it seriously affected and influenced me!

  • Brilliant !

  • fucking bueno

  • I like NIN, but I love the Cabs. If you ever got the chance to see one of their shows, it was disturbing. Nothing outright, just on a base level. NIN was industrial with pop sensibilities. I also have a bit of a gripe with Trent. He got the lyrics to his chorus of "Closer" from me, and I didn't get any credit. How many other fans did he steal from? He also killed my best pickup line, as everybody now thought he created it.

  • Pretty Hate Machine by NIN RIPPED this sound off completely. Check Down in it by NIN total rip off this. love NIN, but Cabaret Voltaire were years ahead of their time.

    CABARET VOLTAIRE were great. be great for them to play a few gigs.

  • @hundhun17 And everyone tells me he ripped off Skinny Puppy with that song. Sounds like to me he ripped off this band and song for Down In It.

  • @hundhun17 Well, let's be fair here, damn near every electronic/industrial band out there that came out in the 2nd half of the 80's ripped off CV, Throbbing Gristle (and offshoot projects: Chris & Cosey, Psychic TV, etc), Gary Numan, Kraftwerk or the Sparks. That's just how it goes. How many Skinny Puppy, Ministry, and KMFDM clones came out in the 90's?

  • @hundhun17 Dude, I have been saying that for years.

  • @hundhun17 NIN were a cheap imitation of Cubanate.. Nin could never get the Industrial sound right.

  • @gsdeli Are you daft? When do you think Cubanate was founded?

  • @gsdeli Cubanate formed just after the release of NIN's Broken album. For all you know, Cubanate must have have listened to "Gave Up" and said "Hey! Let's make similar music!". Thus the 1993 single "Body Burn" was born.

  • @hundhun17

    "Down In It" ripped the hell off of Skinny Puppy's "Dig It" while we're at it.

  • @hundhun17 Even the video is quite similar!!!

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  • holy shit i cant believe KMFDM made this song, its such a funky song for what their used too!

  • @Crucades When the hell did KMFDM do this??

  • 2:30 Mallinder does his Clark Gable impression.