Cabaret Voltaire - Obsession

[stevosomebizzare]

love and devotion

[666prep]

thanks for posting. 

[leponti]

psyndustrial...!!! lol (hope the term never get the mass media artist labeling mania... XD)

[superspocko]

They been around since mid 70's and after first hearing them in '83 I promptly stopped listening to Flock of Seagulls and Human League and started listening to Portion Control, Hula, Severed Heads, Slap, etc.. I call it "Indanstrial".

[xreddragonx]

@superspocko I can still listen to ALL of it, Human League and FoS-stuff as well as Cab Volt, Portion Control, Severed Heads, eg. I don't see any logical reason why discovering something new should cause you to ditch something you were already listening to.

[VCBDANNY]

A great band i ve got all the vinyls from this period of my life,i feel good listening...

[significcunt]

I like the way they create the psychedelic effect, i see it as so natural and simple. and so human! it comes from their innocence - their confidence in the pure idea. Fantastic! i wish we had people like that nowadays!!!!!!!!!!

instead,idiots and dummies everywhere..and soon,probably my neighbor will become a singer/celebrity. it`s disgusting!

[fuzzface100]

Fantastic avant garde track and awesome bassline. Cabaret Voltaire are so underrated. I miss them so much.

[beerbrain420]

trippy

[enochLibre]

PSYCHEDELIC

[scanner1978]

More tha 2 years seeing this video and others from the same dvd and I still fascinated about the feeling of this group.They really loves art. Real attitude, real underground.

[kassylion]

Cabaret-Voltaire are a very very unique band from another realm.

Their is not many decent alternative and experimental acts like this these days. A few are most likely Gary Numan, Nine Inch Nails, Aphex Twin, Saul Williams, Tricky, Throbbing Gristle, AllFlaws

[significcunt]

@kassylion

Another realm - precisely!!!!!!

[LeLimeLine]

@kassylion You forgot Suicide.

[czarnuch101]

@kassylion Depeche Mode.

[hellchild65]

@kassylion cant forget Skinny Puppy

[HerrFOAD]

what a fekksd up band :) luv em

[blitzspeer]

A high tech acid trip.I haven't listened to this in 20+ year's,definitely early trip synth even before Skinny Puppy.

[GroovySistah]

Fucking music doesn`t let me study.

My Life will be destroyed because my face keeps on sitting in front of the god damn computer screen and my persona craves more, and more, and MORE of this beautiful music. Are you still asking me the question about what my obsession is?

[Penzaman]

How about study in music?

[GroovySistah]

@Penzaman Hm... thought about it. Still thinking about it. It might be combined with what I`m studying now. Thanks for the suggestion.

[sirepunk]

cool

[brycebrown1221]

that alien in the window at the end, i remember that! it scared the hell out of me when i was a kid.

[plasticweapon]

this sounds a lot like suicide,anyone ever heard of that band?

[RotoPlasmX]

yes. cabaret voltiare were directly influenced bu them.

[angelforfreedom]

@plasticweapon Suicide was phenomenal! Alan Vega is SO da man! Suicide has influenced everyone from Skinny Puppy to even modern synthy Mac-based "industrial" bands.

[ditrapani]

Incredible song great band where are they now?

[HarryBenboy]

Cab Volt are the main founder of Electronic and Industrial music with main activities End of 70s, 80s till their dissolution in 1994.

[doktorsawade]

Their best period represented here, thank you for uploading this gem

[KuddlMuddl45]

geil

[maxsympathy]

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice video skip editing, viva voltaire!

[AntDcruze]

Excellent!

Misunderstood :)

[LozNewcastle]

The Voice of America album spawned a hundred bands.....like mine.

[doktorsawade]

I'll bite... what are/were you called?

[LozNewcastle]

Heads in the Outhouse.....never went anywhere. Did play DeVilles nightclub in Manchester a week after CV. The name was from the Velvet Underground's Murder Mystery track..... Voice of America, Whitelight/Whiteheat and Metal Box were this young man's lifeblood.

[MagnitudePerson]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS- To tohse who dont know, yes even if IT IS A TYPE OFF NOISE(Cateogrized sound sample(s)) you still dont get that it can still have an constructure yes!

[samir3323]

the Cabs,they put sheffield on the map,as far as the underground at that time,chakk hula,clockdva,but nobody was the cabs! my all time favorite group,check out the anti group if you can find any!

[skatetolive34]

you don't HAVE to be either, besides who's "normal" anyway-- YOUR parents? Enjoy your endless armada of legal pills, caffeinated coffees, anti-abolished alcohol, sleepy time turkey dinners, etc... and mock all the "drug users" to your latest Flatulent Turmoil cd or whatever...

[vikesh81]

no- absolutely not, just an awful cocophony of noise pollution- you have to be clinically insane to actually ENJOY this. Or on drugs . . . . . .

[madamerotten]

Kewl!

[nadezhnah]

(L) I love this song

[neocoders]

Ah..maybe it was 1985..ahem. And he track was "Ghost Talk". Long time back.

[neocoders]

I remember when I was twelve, in 1982, my sister's cool boyfriend played Cabaret Voltaire while I would look through all his freaky picture books on things like cold war aircraft. Stuck in my little head. Now I'm going to search for "sluggin for jesus" or whatever it was called ;)

[djbethell]

Feel like I just lived that moment with you. Great description of youth in the early eighties!

[TheMercyBeat]

Featured on:

"The Voice Of America" album (1980)

and

"The Original Sound Of Sheffield '78/'82" compilation (2002)

[Acidmarx]

correcto

[TheMercyBeat]

Video directors trivia:

This video is made by St. John Walker Of Plan 9 With Special Thanks To Roger Bush (Communications Dept. Sheffield Polytechnic).

[timbearcub]

My old uni! :-D

[TheMercyBeat]

How just bloody nice does that sound???!!! :-)

I wish to have studied at it as well! You made me feel sooo jealous of you for that now! :P

[timbearcub]

That's my old uni! I heard when I arrived that the old Cabs videos where done (by students I think) there. I did some similar videos, check out 'Milk lab Tapes' 'TV Smash' (you can see Psalter Lane in that) and Autodestruct...so the experimentation lived on, until the 90s anyhows.

[lapiveauthentic]

super acid trip...

[NoelArtMedia]

I think it's cool how the cabs never seemed to worry about whether the length of their videos would keep them from being played. There is something hynotic about much of their music and imagery that couldn't easily be condensed to four minutes or less.

[TheMercyBeat]

That's what it's being called freedom of expression or freedom of expressing the feelings regardless of how short or long they are which is very important in music being the strongest art form of expressing the feelings of them all.

It is very easy to get hypnotised by the Cabs music, innit? Everything's there. Once you got into it there's no turning back! ;-)

[NoelArtMedia]

I quite agree, MB. Hypnotize me, CV! :-)

[TheMercyBeat]

:-) ;-)

And I'm STILL hypnotised! :-)

[jermey1]

They still do for me as well.. :D

[TheMercyBeat]

Obsession?/! ;-) :-D

[poptompainwonderland]

i guess you know that the music and the films are made seperate from each other..much film for the 12´versions and the 7´versions for ev. tv-shows ..but i like taht they laid so much on the longer versions too:)

[TheMercyBeat]

You have my word too! x

[industrialvideos]

Video added to playlist.

[solidtheseer]

I hope they make a come back (tho that sounds lame)

I really hope they make a resurgence!!!!!!!!!!!

[solidtheseer]

Rights

the best indeed

[54spiritedwill54]

nice, One of CV's best videos indeed.

[nalanostrebor]

I remember seeing Cabaret Voltaire at a club in downtown Atlanta in 1993 called '688'. Perfect place for a great band.

They were highly inventive and innovative.

[monkmellon]

so perfect. so indisputible

[kittyfreek]

they still sound so fresh - as for innovative bands today, yesterday and tomorrow - The Fall.

[TheMercyBeat]

The Fall are yet another band I appreciate as much as well. Mark E Smith is a lyrical genius.

[TheMercyBeat]

HATE and HORROR gave it LIFE!

But NOTHING could bring it DEATH!...

...NUFF said!

[chinkogakusaizo]

Cool vid!!To me industrial music refers to stuff like Throbbing Glistles and CabaretVoltaire the great orginators of punk electro from Sheffield UK.Trent Reznor never care to mention those names while he calls himself an industrial act he really sucks.Cabs deserves more respect.

[TheMercyBeat]

All correct and all true, chinkogakusaizo!...And I would still add that Cabaret Voltaire are more than just industrial, more than just what is now being called EBM (electronic body music), more than just house...etc. They are soundtrack to LIFE! ...Trent Reznor et al are just media fiddlers for the less educated masses, nowt else. Damn right!

[chinkogakusaizo]

Shame the word industrial has been over used in wrongways to describe or categolise those mainstream acts who ain't it at all.The godfather of industrial is CabaretVoltaire and not FrontLineAssembly or NIN.See you around MercyBeat.

[TheMercyBeat]

Yes, it really IS, chinkogakusaizo. The REAL industrial music can only be made in industrial cities like Sheffield et al and not Cleveland where NIN come from. It's that natural environmental thing, you know. When you hear that metal against metal sound. There's a lot of other stuff to be said about it as well. See you around soon, c! :-)

[HyperGeek]

You do know that Trent Reznor has never called his music industrial, and that he actually avoids using the term in regards to NIN? It's only to music media that stuck the label on him, and only annoying "more hardcore than thou" types that really seem to care.

Music is music, I really wish people would get away from this "I'm more underground than you" pissing contest bullshit. It's childish and doesn't help anyone get anything more out the music they listen to.

[TheMercyBeat]

If/when you think better, you're absolutely correct about this one, HyperGeek, as well. I wish that music media and the types that really seem to care you've mentioned would get away from labelling music too...For instance, alongside industrial, NIN are being labelled gothic as well...

[TheMercyBeat]

...And when you pass through the whole of the Cabs recording output, you'll see that they were all: experimental, underground, industrial, electronic, funky, house, techno, ethno...etc etc, you name it. So, basically what exactly were they after all at all? The only thing they did was MUSIC which really WAS (ahem) music, nowt else. The only thing about it was/is that you could/can either like it or dislike it. That's all.

I like your comment, actually. But when we're at industrial already...

[0114owl1867]

themercybeat - thanks for putting me onto the made in sheffield dvd (which my girlfriend bought me) ive watched it a few times now and it just gets better, i borrowed it my older sister who went onto tell me how she followed bands like artery, i'm so hollow and the cabs around the late 70's, wish she'd have told me sooner now ive got a lot of catching up to do as i'm so getting into it, all these years later

[TheMercyBeat]

0114owl1867 - I'm glad the DVD is received as well as it is in your family. Never mind getting into all that stuff only recently. I hadn't heard for the less familiar bands like the Extras, I'm So Hollow...etc until I saw the documentary myself. Better late than never, you know.

Other DVDs by Sheffield artists I'd recommend you to get would be the Cabs' both, "Doublevision Present; Cabaret Voltaire" and "Live At The Hacienda", then the Human League's "The Very Best Of...", ...

[TheMercyBeat]

...Heaven 17's CD/DVD "Greatest Hits" set, Pulp's "Hits" and ABC's "Look Of Love - The Very Best Of...".

Other thing I'd warmly recommend you to get is Martin Lilleker's rather essential "Beats Working For A Living" book where you'll find the whole Sheffield popular music history all the way from 1973 (the year the Cabs started their career) up to early 2000s. You can buy it from sheffieldvision com site for only GBP 20.00. :-)

[chinkogakusaizo]

I never said underground is better than the mainstream and I'm typing this in while I'm listening to Underworld.Those fancy music gears they bring out(ipod etc)are great but what about some great new music to listen to it with.Where are they.Whenever I dig into these old classic,I start to think that the music now adays are mostly crap both underground or main.Music is music?I really wished that it was.I'm out with this.

[TheMercyBeat]

Yes, you're absolutely correct again, c! I'm still waiting for a CURRENT band as exciting, as intriguing, as ahead of their time and as mind-provoking as the Cabs et al were too. Yes, generally looking the music nowadays whether it was mainstream or underground in most of cases IS crap indeed...

[TheMercyBeat]

Nobody seems to be willing to experiment, breaking the boundaries or pushing the limits forward anymore rather relying on the same old recording formulas just to earn as more money in an as shorter possible time. Fair exceptions aside.

As for labelling music, yes, we could go on forever getting nowhere with it indeed. And therefore I'm out with this too.

[natesot]

one of my fav cab songs.

[antonooooo]

One of CV's best videos.

[malakiikalam]

.it doesnt come much better then this

[superrsonico]

que buen disco es el voice of america!!!!

[scanner1978]

y q lo digas, esta de puta madre y la recopilación de videos tambien, es jodido video-arte ultra retro vhs.

[karamojong]

GODAMN GREAT MAN!

[jasonhaza]

damn I wish Chris Watson never left...there earlier material is by far their best...although I must admit that some later material such as The Sword, The Convenant, And The Arm Of The Lord is priceless as well. Defientally one of my favorite songs and videos of theirs, although I would have to say my favorites will always be Messages Received and Photophobia

[hvhvgitaar]

cool.

still remember buying "voice of america" in summer 1980 after my first year uni exams. guess that shows my age, what the ... anyway !

[FurtherFielder]

Same here, and silent command in 79 :-)

[Mrnin1]

I wish I was alive then lol

[Sensoria1]

the best industrial band, great song, great video

[Lirfanpi]

It's a great pleasure to see the videos from songs i've listen on vinyls so many times. thanks.

[rahid1]

brain explodes with delight! thanks for putting this up.

[rawdaddy]

oh, this really does it for me. maybe my favorite CV song - definitely an exemplar of their early genius. many thanks!

[fishermane]

That's a great song, and a surprisingly great video. Nice hook up man. I love Cabaret-Voltaire, especially their older material...

[jermey1]

Thanks...I love Cabaret Voltaire as well and I would say especially their older material as well. I first heard of them in 1991 when I saw the video Sensoria/Do Right on USA networks Night Flight but that was edited. I was so damn happy to find it here as well as other stuff that I have not seen also. I'm going to go watch Doublevision Present; Cabaret Voltaire again... It's been a while since I put the dvd on... Take care and again thanks for the comments! :)