in fact big black were way ahead of the game with making statements thru their 'music'. their treatment of themes like testosterone idiocy, child abuse and nepotism was more razor sharp than.. fugazi and more harrowing than a foetus record. as a barometer of the reagan-era attitudes exemplified by nature of u.s. punk/industrial/anti-pop and the like.. they have few peers. (albini, biafra, jourgensen, mckaye- they dont make em like that anymore).
If there was a documentary about what Testosterone does to men that makes them different from women, this clip would have to be in it. Pure urban angst.
@bassman31793 i dont mean to be rude but you've got your head up your ass if you think hardcore punk from 78-84 was all just 3 chordes. you have a LOT to learn my friend. i think you should start with my page and then scroll down to all of the weird hardcore shit i have listed. you might even find some beachboys meets hardcore, meets electro stuff too.
@SuperBspb Slamming a metal pick on metal strings is how Steve got his noise-drenched sound. After a while, that shreds your hands up. That Die Kruezen shirt starts the show white and ends up a blood-drenched mess.
These guys are one of the few creative punk bands out their all these other bands sound the same just abunch of power chords and shouting about how you hate the government even though you cant name a reason why other than your punk.
@ABMayweather Ru sure you know what u r talking about? there are lots of creative punk bands from the late eighties through the mid to late 90's, and most of dont sing about how much they hate the gov't.
great band, which I have seen at several times in the us and here in europe. that's crossover or industrialmix de luxe..Thank you steve albini (which produce the last nirvana record). I drink a carrot on the rocks
Can someone please explain to me what's so great about that whole late 70's and 80's punk rock scene. I find the music just to be inexplicably boring. I've been trying so hard for the longest time to understand it and get into it but I just think its boring. Big Black, Minutemen, Black Flag, etc. etc. I just find it all dreadfully boring and just a whole lot of noise and yelling. If someone could explain it to me I'd appreciate it. I dont mean to offend, I'm just ignorant.
@bassman31793 Why force yourself to like something you don't?
Just listen to whatever you want, man. It's as easy as that. lol. There's no use trying to understand how or why certain people like certain things, that's just the way it is.
@ChaostheClown If I may respectfully disagree. There's absolutely a point in trying to understand why people dig different music. People's motives in liking different are like a cultural road map through out history. Seeing how people expressed their life situations in different time periods through different music allows us to understand life during that time and can influence how we do things now. Its so incredibly important.
@bassman31793 While I would agree entirely, my point was more along the lines of this: why bother yourself with trying to understand or like something just because somebody else has?
My main point is that, if this guy can't find it in him to like this music, he shouldn't try to force himself into it for the sake of seeming cool or hip amongst his friends or a certain crowd of people, he should just simply enjoy the music he enjoys regardless of what anyone thinks. even if it's not this. =]
@bassman31793 wow, I kinda feel like a douche. I just got in from a long, long night and didn't realize you were the same person who commented. Anyway, replace the "he's" and "this guy's" with yourself and the point still pretty much remains.
I mostly mean that, many different people are going to like many different things. Sometimes these people simply have no explanation for liking the things they like, they just do. If you can't find a reason to enjoy the music than why try so hard?
@bassman31793 Other than, of course, to discover the meanings behind things such as these. But even then, I think people look too deep into music, and this is coming from a musician [not your self-taught youtube guitarist, I mean classically trained in several instruments.] Sometimes there is no message, or no reason, or no logical explanation as to why a certain person may like a certain style of music. They just like it. I try not to bother worrying myself about it because of diversity.
@bassman31793 It was during the decline of western civilization. The birth of a new wave of punk, the Reagan generation. The music seems dark and boring, because that's how a lot of people viewed the world. The state of the counterculture in youth. Rock was becoming safe, heavy metal sold out, theres nothing to do but cope with the insanity of getting a job, going to school, making money, by either getting hammered or creating art.I wasn't born then but I feel that way and I'm 15.
@skulldrix dark, perhaps..boring- now way! at the time the options, other than dead kennedys, black flag and the like, where almost entirely post-newwave/new romantic swill from europe or (thankfully) a couple of amphetamine guzzling goths, ie. the sisters of mercy, or the cure. feel lucky u werent born then, good music was thin on the ground- but at the same time, there actually existed 'an alternative' -thus 'alternative music' and you certainly cant say there is one today. i blame nirvana!
@bassman31793 hey man, if you don't get it you don't get it. i will say that i don't get your putting minutemen with the other two guys - listen to ''viet nam'' - that's boring? damn... i dunno. maybe try the self titled bad brains album? those guys blew it out of the water. i've never been a black flag fan myself, always thought rollins kinda made it into a parody. but their stuff before him was a lot better. adolescents are another cool band - try ''kids of the black hole'' maybe? good luck. f
Some guys in my small town spent the past Summer dropping electric motors off the interstate overpass onto cars for something to do.This song sums it up in all of its frustrated, tense, ignobility.
In the late 80 my friend and drummer of my band was friends with Dave Riley and he would come over to the apartment, he was drunk almost everytime I saw him and if you asked him about Big Black he would get pissed or not even acknowledge the question, so I used to ask him everytime he came over to annoy him.
@Jojos25 Also, it's more shocking when someone who's dressed very casually starts to scream and shout than if someone with extraordinary looks does. Shows that this person is angry, not that this person just is like this. Or something like that.
This band is one of the most awesome bands from the usa punk scene i know we british nail it every time but these the swans and the mighty dead kennedys did a good job !!
@demonedge666 -- You forgot the brass guitar pick and the hernia belt... and the fact that most of today's 'alternative indie' wanna be's need to grow a pair of pavement dragging balls before they can touch Albini in their own wet dreams.
when i get into those musical lapses, I always reach for these guys and nomeansno, wipers, necros, flipper, minutemen and all that--because they have lots to say...
saw these guys in mid 80's in Adelaide South Australia / was mesmerized by that killer Rickenbacker sound / first time i ever heard a drum machine kick ass / we had a local band at the time called the Mark of Cain who were heavily influenced by this industrial sound
was checking stuff from swans when i saw this gem in related vids. this brings back memories, ran to shop to buy that LP when i heard this on radio back then. I'm 42, and heavy Neurosis fan nowadays. So once you are into this kinda great heavy music, there is no way back. It sticks forever, but keep openminded to other kinds of music too. Some great blues, classical music, ... out there, heavy in its own way. As long as it is made from the heart, and not as commercial product, music is great!!!
@neurotic4ever I was just checking some ''the jesus lizard'' stuff and ran into the genre argument again .There are only 2 kinds of music that which you like and that which you dont.Or music made as a form of self expression ,or music made to make money the latter are rarely in the same place at the same time.
But obviously you know nothing with your narrow minded inward facing attitude
@malmswax Big Black played their last show in August of `87, so you didn't see them from "`85 to `90" because they weren't around in `88, `89 or `90. Fail.
@BadComrade Yeah- Steve Albini played in various incarnations over time, sorry if I cannot recall exact years or if it was Rapeman, or whatever...You sound like one of those finicky assholes who used hog the bar at those shows, blocking my way to beer, because the bartender couldn't find your choice of god-damned micro-brews...enjoy the song or troll elsewhere...fail-man.
@malmswax I've seen Shellac a bunch of times, but Big Black must have been something else...
Always makes me laugh when I hear people talk about Albini being this monsterous asshole, when actually he just this skinny, nerdy guy. A very angry, skinny, nerdy guy maybe.
@thecrikster Good call...he was no asshole, seemed to me to carry on the tradition of Frank Zappa...his stance on independent music, and artistic freedom is sorely missed in the world now...angry is OK, depends what you are angry about!
I want to have Steve Albini's baby. Two decades ago. And I guess I'd have to be a woman. Or at least gay. Doesn't seem likely. But a straight 40 year-old guy can dream...
yep shallac are good and rapeman were mighty for a very shortwhile but big black- atomizer, songs about and racer x ep are the shit. if anyone who plays like this music anymore let me know. doubt it becoz there is no proper punk/angry/weird/angular shit going on these days. i am old but at least i have a bit of rage about how this fucked planet is going unlike gen y who just need an ipod and fancy shoes and glasses. f... the lovely. go big black!!
@craigmac303 I'm part of gen y and I'm currently recording an EP. When It's done I'll send it to you somehow. Show you that not ALL of gen y are money hungry fuck-ups.
Steve Albini for President
Jaimetron1 2 weeks ago
Can I like it twice?? :) I miss Big Black days.
dddux 2 weeks ago
uh...isnt this on video? on dvd? on VHS?
MichaelHansenFUN 2 weeks ago
"This is a song Jerry Lee Lewis wrote before he killed one of his wives."
Best line of all time.
TheWildshadow 3 weeks ago 2
I spent 6 minutes and 44 seconds reading comments and all I want to do is smack motherfuckers.
JTea808 1 month ago
@JTea808 That's funny - I spent 6 minutes and 44 seconds in a three-man mosh pit and all I want to do is smack motherfuckers.
CthuhluRising 4 weeks ago
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reginaco 1 month ago
absolutely great band...they took Iggy Pop shouts or Suicides visions to another level in 80's
ColdOasisU2 1 month ago
that big flash right at the end? ..thats me igniting a great big trouser flapper ;)
fakelegache 2 months ago
in fact big black were way ahead of the game with making statements thru their 'music'. their treatment of themes like testosterone idiocy, child abuse and nepotism was more razor sharp than.. fugazi and more harrowing than a foetus record. as a barometer of the reagan-era attitudes exemplified by nature of u.s. punk/industrial/anti-pop and the like.. they have few peers. (albini, biafra, jourgensen, mckaye- they dont make em like that anymore).
z1rakz1gal 2 months ago
If there was a documentary about what Testosterone does to men that makes them different from women, this clip would have to be in it. Pure urban angst.
Polyfusia 2 months ago
glorious NOISE!!!! Thank you for posting.
KronosTheDeejay 2 months ago
@unlvrebelx impossible as they started in 82 or so and hardcore was around since 78 in southern california.
buy some more neurons, goon.
TheNewMusicNetwork 3 months ago
@bassman31793 i dont mean to be rude but you've got your head up your ass if you think hardcore punk from 78-84 was all just 3 chordes. you have a LOT to learn my friend. i think you should start with my page and then scroll down to all of the weird hardcore shit i have listed. you might even find some beachboys meets hardcore, meets electro stuff too.
TheNewMusicNetwork 3 months ago
makes me proud to be nerdy, white, and from a piece of SHIT small town
kareeji 3 months ago
blowing my muthafucken speakers up
darkr3ign347 3 months ago
50% Nerdy tie dye shirt
50% Nerdy glasses
100% Badass
SuperBspb 3 months ago 3
@SuperBspb That's not tie dye, that's blood from Steve's hand.
Gr8Sc0ttrout 2 months ago
@Gr8Sc0ttrout Are you serious why the fuck is he bleeding all over the place.
SuperBspb 2 months ago
@SuperBspb Slamming a metal pick on metal strings is how Steve got his noise-drenched sound. After a while, that shreds your hands up. That Die Kruezen shirt starts the show white and ends up a blood-drenched mess.
HughBeaumont 2 months ago
@HughBeaumont someone was squirting fake blood at the band from the audience.
ALTERNATECHAOS 2 months ago
Albini is a deity to be reckoned with. He's just f*cking brilliant, 'nuff said.
WildChild80Style 3 months ago
F*ckin awesome Die Kreuzen shirt
capsulef 3 months ago
MEGA-EFFING BAD-ASSSSSSS!!!!!!!
bethkellner 4 months ago
These guys are one of the few creative punk bands out their all these other bands sound the same just abunch of power chords and shouting about how you hate the government even though you cant name a reason why other than your punk.
ABMayweather 4 months ago
@ABMayweather Ru sure you know what u r talking about? there are lots of creative punk bands from the late eighties through the mid to late 90's, and most of dont sing about how much they hate the gov't.
milosharp1 4 months ago
Post-Hardcore music has changed so much.
vGandhii 4 months ago
@vGandhii ...lol, this wasn't post hardcore...more like pre-hardcore
unlvrebelx 4 months ago
Steve Albini is hot.
asenath7766 4 months ago
what guitar did steve play?
smogan94 4 months ago
It's like Nine Inch Nails meats suicidal technicals, and that the members comprised of the cars.
Chrisgodoflard 4 months ago
@Chrisgodoflard These guys are before nine inch nails never heard of that other band you mentioned tho
ABMayweather 4 months ago
Jojos, cuz it was more about the music back then, no Mtv!!
WEENIE666 5 months ago
Demokratie gleich Volksherrschaft ?
Volksherrschaft gleich NWO ?
NWO gleich Dasein.
guten Abend.
( ich wurde wiedereinmal nichtgefragt )
Glotzling 5 months ago
yay for ergonomic guitar straps!
Sprtschk 5 months ago 2
lived here my whole life....
h748syb 6 months ago
And they are hot!!!
ladyinthequadcities 6 months ago
Are these the real guys? Saw Big Black in Millwaukee, very hot!
ladyinthequadcities 6 months ago
my POS speakers do not go loud enough for this beat!
trn905 6 months ago
Could this be one Radiohead's influences.
THRASHFKINFILLETS 6 months ago 2
@THRASHFKINFILLETS
A) No.
B) Who cares? Music isn't a game of who influenced who.
Epsilon15 5 months ago
@Epsilon15 I gotta a habit of comparing bands all the time.Music runs through me.
THRASHFKINFILLETS 5 months ago
that''s the why nirvana's in utero sounds so damn good!
ututura 6 months ago
great band, which I have seen at several times in the us and here in europe. that's crossover or industrialmix de luxe..Thank you steve albini (which produce the last nirvana record). I drink a carrot on the rocks
ak67denttabs 7 months ago
set me on fire!!!! kerosene
anderjl276ps 7 months ago
The best angst fueled song of the 80's
nicechicken 7 months ago
Some songs are just evil
seniorclapshishands 7 months ago
this makes me feel like mmmm
xXmeeka27Xx 7 months ago
Can someone please explain to me what's so great about that whole late 70's and 80's punk rock scene. I find the music just to be inexplicably boring. I've been trying so hard for the longest time to understand it and get into it but I just think its boring. Big Black, Minutemen, Black Flag, etc. etc. I just find it all dreadfully boring and just a whole lot of noise and yelling. If someone could explain it to me I'd appreciate it. I dont mean to offend, I'm just ignorant.
bassman31793 8 months ago
@bassman31793 Why force yourself to like something you don't?
Just listen to whatever you want, man. It's as easy as that. lol. There's no use trying to understand how or why certain people like certain things, that's just the way it is.
ChaostheClown 8 months ago
@ChaostheClown If I may respectfully disagree. There's absolutely a point in trying to understand why people dig different music. People's motives in liking different are like a cultural road map through out history. Seeing how people expressed their life situations in different time periods through different music allows us to understand life during that time and can influence how we do things now. Its so incredibly important.
bassman31793 8 months ago
@bassman31793 While I would agree entirely, my point was more along the lines of this: why bother yourself with trying to understand or like something just because somebody else has?
My main point is that, if this guy can't find it in him to like this music, he shouldn't try to force himself into it for the sake of seeming cool or hip amongst his friends or a certain crowd of people, he should just simply enjoy the music he enjoys regardless of what anyone thinks. even if it's not this. =]
ChaostheClown 8 months ago
@bassman31793 wow, I kinda feel like a douche. I just got in from a long, long night and didn't realize you were the same person who commented. Anyway, replace the "he's" and "this guy's" with yourself and the point still pretty much remains.
I mostly mean that, many different people are going to like many different things. Sometimes these people simply have no explanation for liking the things they like, they just do. If you can't find a reason to enjoy the music than why try so hard?
ChaostheClown 8 months ago
@bassman31793 Other than, of course, to discover the meanings behind things such as these. But even then, I think people look too deep into music, and this is coming from a musician [not your self-taught youtube guitarist, I mean classically trained in several instruments.] Sometimes there is no message, or no reason, or no logical explanation as to why a certain person may like a certain style of music. They just like it. I try not to bother worrying myself about it because of diversity.
ChaostheClown 8 months ago 2
@bassman31793 It was during the decline of western civilization. The birth of a new wave of punk, the Reagan generation. The music seems dark and boring, because that's how a lot of people viewed the world. The state of the counterculture in youth. Rock was becoming safe, heavy metal sold out, theres nothing to do but cope with the insanity of getting a job, going to school, making money, by either getting hammered or creating art.I wasn't born then but I feel that way and I'm 15.
skulldrix 7 months ago 18
@skulldrix i like that you get it. and i was there. respect bro
vars666 7 months ago
@skulldrix but with kerosene around you found something to do.
kowtpr187 2 months ago
@skulldrix Also Steve lived in rural Montana as a kid and that has to be agonizingly boring.
SuperBspb 2 months ago
@skulldrix dark, perhaps..boring- now way! at the time the options, other than dead kennedys, black flag and the like, where almost entirely post-newwave/new romantic swill from europe or (thankfully) a couple of amphetamine guzzling goths, ie. the sisters of mercy, or the cure. feel lucky u werent born then, good music was thin on the ground- but at the same time, there actually existed 'an alternative' -thus 'alternative music' and you certainly cant say there is one today. i blame nirvana!
z1rakz1gal 2 months ago
@bassman31793 hey man, if you don't get it you don't get it. i will say that i don't get your putting minutemen with the other two guys - listen to ''viet nam'' - that's boring? damn... i dunno. maybe try the self titled bad brains album? those guys blew it out of the water. i've never been a black flag fan myself, always thought rollins kinda made it into a parody. but their stuff before him was a lot better. adolescents are another cool band - try ''kids of the black hole'' maybe? good luck. f
plxplxkthx 1 month ago
Die Kreuzen t-shirt!
cavealieniv 8 months ago
Steves guitar strap resembles some sort of S&M nappy. like he's somehow taking one massive protracted dump on popular music.
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Justin Bieber sings better.
ToscanoRomano 9 months ago
is steve albini the bassist?
tadster94 9 months ago
@tadster94 No, look at his guitar, but he does set up the roland 909 drum machine if your thinking about it
davidzysk 9 months ago
@tadster94 originally he was playing the bass
CookosMorenos 8 months ago
I'd so want to sing (as in yell/death growl) this on stage to a metal beat!
Packager 9 months ago
this is just fucking awesome. such a strange time in music.
jamescracksthesky 9 months ago
@jamescracksthesky such a strange a time in music you say .. more like the best time for music ..what we have today is such a strange time in music
lewe18 8 months ago
Just discovered these and very impressed
CryptDoll1 10 months ago
Some guys in my small town spent the past Summer dropping electric motors off the interstate overpass onto cars for something to do.This song sums it up in all of its frustrated, tense, ignobility.
jbe4th 10 months ago
look how low albini has his guitar. That's just silly.... it's like down to his knees.
freezazoid 10 months ago
Steve Albini for president
Mesarphelous 10 months ago
Cool Stuff!
MrSmartBob 10 months ago
i have the vhs of this - pigpile live in london
chexxbanner 10 months ago
Awesome song, awesome video. Thanks!!
polodelmundo 10 months ago
Doesn't the guy on the right remind anyone of Artso Lindsay?
TheSAEmusic 10 months ago
I used to call this the "Bradenton, Florida Theme Song". Meth, Sex or Beach?
aelmore 10 months ago
This is a real rhythm section. Holy Crap.
Oldshirt 10 months ago
Set me on fire... KEROSENE!
Atraiterm 11 months ago
In the late 80 my friend and drummer of my band was friends with Dave Riley and he would come over to the apartment, he was drunk almost everytime I saw him and if you asked him about Big Black he would get pissed or not even acknowledge the question, so I used to ask him everytime he came over to annoy him.
starkweather444 11 months ago 2
@starkweather444 That is fucking great!! Thats what we do...piss people off for the fuck of it!!! Haaa!
happyskinhead 10 months ago
best bass sound ever
thegoodusernameman 11 months ago 33
@thegoodusernameman no shit huh. it just drives there music, love these guys
anderjl276ps 7 months ago
@thegoodusernameman You can hear the strings banging against the pickups, sounds amazing, love these guys
anderjl276ps 7 months ago
@thegoodusernameman I do indeed concur
bindrum2chairs 6 months ago
@thegoodusernameman
" best bass sound ever "
Check out Kurt Daniels' bass on
TAD - Greasebox
watch?v=M0l-Oqabipk
tigerone1970 5 months ago
@thegoodusernameman No, the best bass goes to J. J. Burnell from the Stranglers. I do agree, this is powerful, too.
Firefred1 5 months ago
best sounding guitar ever
stoshomega 1 year ago
Who did he murder.!
elmorobar 1 year ago
what i like about these guys is how they are raw and punk rock without having shitty mohawks and stuff like that.
Jojos25 1 year ago 57
@Jojos25
indeed, but to be fair the best punks are normal...none of the ridiculous shit
tiki2188 7 months ago 6
@Jojos25 Yes, they let the raw noise speak for itself :-))
raindog951 7 months ago 3
@Jojos25 Also, it's more shocking when someone who's dressed very casually starts to scream and shout than if someone with extraordinary looks does. Shows that this person is angry, not that this person just is like this. Or something like that.
freedomthrough 6 months ago
Fan, Iprenmannen var ju stenhård innan han sålde ut.
Nostalgamagic 1 year ago
bigblack / Rapeman respect.
shortsigh 1 year ago
Great stuff!
eradeziel 1 year ago
man, this sucks
alkleiza1995 1 year ago
@alkleiza1995 no u
sidchimaera 1 year ago
@alkleiza1995
Man, that's a fine joke.
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LilyBlhac 1 year ago
Big Black - the AD and BC of music?
shocktk 1 year ago
One two....one two Fuck you!!!
allweatherpainting 1 year ago
LOVE THIS SONG HA HA HA
doug11906 1 year ago
yeah there on stage doin it....good luck from a Bushwacker!
mrmattstrat 1 year ago
steve is a nerd but a cool one in my book.
rubster1206 1 year ago
@rubster1206 nerds are generally the coolest type of people - only the clever ones though...
corpsemunger 1 year ago
these guys never had anything handed to them, they went out and took it.
quicklern818 1 year ago
15 people are about to get set on fire. No, seriously, I'll hunt you down.
mark10579 1 year ago
you tell me what's more hardcore than that ....
AudioTruther 1 year ago
wow I guess everybody commenting remembers when it took originality to make music cool and interesting. This kicks ass!
SydbarF 1 year ago
I think the crowd gave birth to someone in the middle of that song! Amazing!!
CeclanDooney 1 year ago
its not fair.... i love this band the most....fucking LOVE them
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BabyBearRoar 1 year ago
Brilliant! One the best bands I ever meet!
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BarbaraFallonc 1 year ago
thank god. best thing ive seen in ages.
anaemiabag 1 year ago
i fucking love this band haha. this is amazing
hoek88 1 year ago
they live on in Shellac
meatraffleroad 1 year ago
They're amazing!
Too bad they broke up
KleineJumbie 1 year ago
This band is one of the most awesome bands from the usa punk scene i know we british nail it every time but these the swans and the mighty dead kennedys did a good job !!
CHATTS39 1 year ago 2
They are REALLY sweaty.
SuperWasteBasket 1 year ago
think i just found a new favorite band
Blackdragon5151 1 year ago
guitar player with the glasses has classic moves
pollux446 1 year ago
sick and wrong podcast
lewissaysdie 1 year ago
I want that Die Kreuzen TShirt
d0nramon 1 year ago
Only just noticed the way that he is using his guitar strap. Looks awesome.
shankvale 1 year ago 2
I would kill a hobo with a hammer to get the guitar sound Albini has on this song
MoonlitKnight13 1 year ago
@MoonlitKnight13
take a distortion pedal, put the treble and distortion to max, then take an analog echo, and set the feedback to full. Instant Albini.
demonedge666 1 year ago
@demonedge666 Cool, I'll try that. Thanks
MoonlitKnight13 1 year ago
@demonedge666 -- You forgot the brass guitar pick and the hernia belt... and the fact that most of today's 'alternative indie' wanna be's need to grow a pair of pavement dragging balls before they can touch Albini in their own wet dreams.
Satyagrahaha 1 year ago 3
Great band,great song...I need some kerosene...1,2-F.U.
mpkpkm 1 year ago
when i get into those musical lapses, I always reach for these guys and nomeansno, wipers, necros, flipper, minutemen and all that--because they have lots to say...
mellotrongirl 1 year ago 2
man this band is so good. ive seen a couple videos of this same show is this by any chance from a dvd thats out there now?
heavyminded09 1 year ago
We need Big Black more than ever.
jstewart3d 3 days ago
amen
zebracharlie74 1 year ago 2
Look at the way Durango moves. Like a machine ploughing through a sea of complacency .
We need Big Black more than ever.
jstewart3d 1 year ago 3
Look at the way Durango moves. Like a machine ploughing through a sea of complacency .
We need Big Black more than ever.
jstewart3d 1 year ago
saw these guys in mid 80's in Adelaide South Australia / was mesmerized by that killer Rickenbacker sound / first time i ever heard a drum machine kick ass / we had a local band at the time called the Mark of Cain who were heavily influenced by this industrial sound
rowdyroddy4321 1 year ago
this is raw
bakersk8r41 1 year ago
was checking stuff from swans when i saw this gem in related vids. this brings back memories, ran to shop to buy that LP when i heard this on radio back then. I'm 42, and heavy Neurosis fan nowadays. So once you are into this kinda great heavy music, there is no way back. It sticks forever, but keep openminded to other kinds of music too. Some great blues, classical music, ... out there, heavy in its own way. As long as it is made from the heart, and not as commercial product, music is great!!!
neurotic4ever 1 year ago
@neurotic4ever I was just checking some ''the jesus lizard'' stuff and ran into the genre argument again .There are only 2 kinds of music that which you like and that which you dont.Or music made as a form of self expression ,or music made to make money the latter are rarely in the same place at the same time.
But obviously you know nothing with your narrow minded inward facing attitude
arf arf
MrFlatmint 1 year ago
@neurotic4ever
second that
oimeloimel 1 year ago
No better contribution to rock n roll in 20 years after this.
Indiekubatorius 1 year ago 3
Blinding. x
ffwrchamotobeics 1 year ago
Nothing to do, so light some things on fire. It's a sentiment that a lot of kids in small, rundown nowhere towns could relate to.
Polyfusia 1 year ago
best song intro ever.....
mpoulampaki 1 year ago
Its like geeksquad meets meth-town with amplifiers, and these guys were a BLAST! Saw 'em 4 times from '85-'90...yikes a long time ago...
malmswax 1 year ago 20
@malmswax You shoulda been babysitting me. This band rules.
csxtrainwreck 1 year ago
@csxtrainwreck Indeed.
malmswax 1 year ago
@malmswax
regular people making crazy music instead of crazy people making regular music :)
slumberjammer 1 year ago
@malmswax Big Black played their last show in August of `87, so you didn't see them from "`85 to `90" because they weren't around in `88, `89 or `90. Fail.
BadComrade 1 year ago
@BadComrade Yeah- Steve Albini played in various incarnations over time, sorry if I cannot recall exact years or if it was Rapeman, or whatever...You sound like one of those finicky assholes who used hog the bar at those shows, blocking my way to beer, because the bartender couldn't find your choice of god-damned micro-brews...enjoy the song or troll elsewhere...fail-man.
malmswax 1 year ago 3
@malmswax I've seen Shellac a bunch of times, but Big Black must have been something else...
Always makes me laugh when I hear people talk about Albini being this monsterous asshole, when actually he just this skinny, nerdy guy. A very angry, skinny, nerdy guy maybe.
thecrikster 9 months ago 2
@thecrikster Good call...he was no asshole, seemed to me to carry on the tradition of Frank Zappa...his stance on independent music, and artistic freedom is sorely missed in the world now...angry is OK, depends what you are angry about!
malmswax 9 months ago
eat that baby!
cheetah7769 1 year ago
So this is where Ministry and Nine Inch Nails got their cue...
JustOneMeatPuppet 1 year ago 17
@JustOneMeatPuppet Also see CHROME (NakedRaygun/ThrobbingGristle/AMEBIX)
PAZ
informationplz 1 year ago
@informationplz Coincidentally, I was just about to check them out these days. I'm in for a treat!
JustOneMeatPuppet 1 year ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet Yeah but they didn't look like fag-end middle class white boys.
PraeVitaMysteria 11 months ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet
" So this is where Ministry and Nine Inch Nails? got their cue... "
Check out:
Joy Division - Dead Souls
watch?v=MhEm4S-4v_U
tigerone1970 10 months ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet And Steve Albini got his cue from Killing Joke.
NikkTemplar 10 months ago
@JustOneMeatPuppet Funny, they got their start in Chicago soon after. Coincidence? I think not.
motoanimus 9 months ago
As a baby boomer can I just say I find this band to be FUCKING AWESOME, and did so at the time.
and3w 1 year ago 2
Steve is a fuckin' genious
ziggypunk 1 year ago
killer riff.
ghonzalo 1 year ago
Kin Awsome !
AQUAVIVARIA 1 year ago
Angry nerds rule.
Pretty sure this song is about the Vineyard.
At least it seemed that way to me when i was 14.
countshock 1 year ago
@countshock this song is about blowing shit up and having sex with any girls who are willing... and mixing the two.
klownboo 1 year ago
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killthephony 1 year ago
Big Black can set me on fire anytime ! not that im the town ho...
cheetah7769 1 year ago
I want to have Steve Albini's baby. Two decades ago. And I guess I'd have to be a woman. Or at least gay. Doesn't seem likely. But a straight 40 year-old guy can dream...
mikestark2003 1 year ago
@mikestark2003 If you stranded in the desert with no food or water and you were pregnant, would you cut yourself open and eat the baby?
rukon1234 1 year ago
What are the words around 5:50? The joy of sex? and then what ...?
And around 3:17, is that "she's the town ho"....
Just want to know...
Why did I get obsessed with this little video...
hailahh 1 year ago
yep shallac are good and rapeman were mighty for a very shortwhile but big black- atomizer, songs about and racer x ep are the shit. if anyone who plays like this music anymore let me know. doubt it becoz there is no proper punk/angry/weird/angular shit going on these days. i am old but at least i have a bit of rage about how this fucked planet is going unlike gen y who just need an ipod and fancy shoes and glasses. f... the lovely. go big black!!
craigmac303 1 year ago
@craigmac303 I'm part of gen y and I'm currently recording an EP. When It's done I'll send it to you somehow. Show you that not ALL of gen y are money hungry fuck-ups.
FLEAisGODpsps 1 year ago
@FLEAisGODpsps Hey man. Good on you. Sorry, it is wrong for me to generalise. Good luck with the ep.Cheers.
craigmac303 1 year ago
@craigmac303 I'll show you that Gen y can make decent music that's wierd and angular.
FLEAisGODpsps 1 year ago
@FLEAisGODpsps hope it go's well
joshxip 1 year ago
Durango looks like a