Front 242 - Animal

[botond31]

great song! Somlyai Botond

[dark1ankh]

This is pretty mediocre for Front 242 if you ask me.

[Khyrid]

at 0:47 it looked like she was wearing no pants. But she is

[ROBBEAUDOIN66]

This is a apex....the fact that no real improvement has been made in the audio scene means to me that it has degraded to orthodoxy....time to listen to classic country...im serious.

[missingt00th]

@ROBBEAUDOIN66 WTF are you going on about? Seriously? Are you suggesting that we all gather 'round and listen to Tompall Glaser?

[Baconq]

is this the cage version?

[dmcrawford]

43 people need to be put in a cage.

[scanner1978]

@dmcrawford jajajajaja, yeah!

[lexigore]

One of the best albums ever.

[comep9702022]

I do remember that VJ, OMG that's a long time ago. MTV was pretty good back then

[JackSmash32]

C'est la même voix et le même genre que les Lords of Acid

[yogafireyogaflame23]

I love Front 242, but this woman who is ?singing? is so terribly annoying!

[Paulie151]

@yogafireyogaflame23 Seriously?!?

Dude, that's Kristin Kowalski, otherwise known as 99Kowalski! And she's fucking AWESOME!!!

If you mean why is she talking like that, she's singing the song exactly the way it's supposed to be done, that's how they set it up.

[zz8691]

Long time ago...MTV was better then now.

Front242.Saying enough.

[TheFinlandnator]

0:19 Labrador..?

[samfrompasingtime]

MTV used to be pretty amazing. I remember the start of it and I used to see everything from The Fix to The Doors, but now it's all this Kesha and Hip Hop mind rot bullshit.

Front 242 never gets any attention on there anymore and they didn't get much attention even when on Lalapalooza.

Please check out BREAK ME on our site.

Sam

[lordvore]

Is this good? It doesn't sound good.

[rockabettyhellcat]

wow... back when mtv was good.

[InfernoFuture]

242, 66, 99 etc etc. (especially death angels, demons on their covers). Now it's clear to me: They are Illuminati ('reptilians', fallen angels). And shouldn't bare orgonite, haha.

(Of course you'll think now I've smoked something but this is real in deed)

[atank]

hell yeah mtv sucks all ass

[MrRobokoper]

Is that KMFDM? LOL

[goranapatin]

Front 242 rules...

[PaulyMcPRock]

I miss when mtv actually played music

[WilliamAztech]

This marked the death of Front 242.

[BootyFister]

This is where the start to suck.

[Pleasureman242]

Was für ein Dreck............FRONT 242 ist was anderes!

[drheim1]

hmmmmmmmmmm this reminds me of lords of acid

[TheMaxhood]

 post modern mtv

......

[spatz0r]

wow, when did front 242 get so nine inch nails-ripoff like stabbing westward and shit? must have been label pressure.

[blueshifter]

ha! i'd forgotten about this track, i remember thinking front had gotten too pop. but you know what? this is super good

[JeepJohn242]

Ya this reminds me when MTV was about music and not just "WHAT EVER SOME BIG MANE LABEL WANTS YOU PUSH" 

[Rusheeth]

Wuw

MTV used to show cool things

LOL

[Mindbender05]

@Rusheeth A Headbangers Ball and a 120 Minutes ((c) Mucky Pup ;))

*sigh.. those were the days. Now everything you get on music channels is ads for mobile ring tones.

[addgrav]

Stunning track - but the video sucks arseholes!

[nebby6]

Great performance. Her voice is killer. But the video totally ruins it. This seriously needs to be done as a high-contrast, expressionist vid with tons of strobe, and 99Kowalski decked out in black leather with welding goggles and extreme close-ups of her face. In short, it desperately needs a fan video.

[eradevotional]

brutal, simplemente brutal

[rekkerOO7]

I feel old looking at this vid

[Automathan5388MR]

hey! Mtv WAS a real music channel!?

[nivek2421]

I remember when MTV actually showed music videos.... aahhhh, the good ol days.....

[kokomotoysonline]

I never knew MTV played good music. Wierd.

[AlburyAustralia]

(Yeah)This vid was how things were done in the 1st 1/2 of the 90's.

(later on)Its something that will remain frozen in it's period of how things were done @ that time-with most acts crossing over into this style EG U2 ZOO T.V.

The 20 somethings have moved house 15 years ago and you can't turn back the clock.

Any subliminal drug references/attitudes are from an age long lost.

[music4fun875020079]

gay as fuck !

[frontiero247]

zajebiste jak zawsze

[MrFiend71]

@frontiero247

Noo i to bardzo ! :)

Żałuję, że nie było mnie w Bolkowie rok temu

[miepdetruus]

@frontiero247 tak!!!

[TheMoPsico]

I think that bass at the solo bass part is the same bass Trent used in a song from The Pretty Hate Machine. Someone there know what synth was that?

[Rockstafar]

what to industrial music?...70s,80s and most 90s stuff is brilliant but now it's just become watered down fetish pop music

[K3inMitl3id]

Just found out about this song yesterday and I've already listened to it like 10,000 times.

[dEdGrimley]

Is that Tina Fey at 1:04 ?

[neurotek44]

like tis..

[BouncingFerretFilms]

i miss videos being this weird and interesting

[gavinattoe]

My brothers and I used to listen to a lot of Front 242, but I never saw any of their videos until just now. Thanks! :)

[Gaiacarra]

...when the fuck did MTV air this?

[trubies]

Amazing, best times...

[SubconsciousGatherer]

This video would make modern day viewers of eMpTV shit their pants.

[UMENMDFMK]

So long time ago it was.

[K0P0Bbl]

long live industrial!

[hEADcRASH13]

I love how this video switches (I'm betting intentionally) between an 80's pop look to rivet-head and then bounces the genres around with triply backgrounds .. what a great video!

[ZauXz]

Holly shit, I miss MTV...

[cyb3rs0]

hottest industrial chick evar ;)

[EnjoyTheSilence93]

@landgabriel

don't blaspheme.

[truetodef]

Sweet, sweet nostalgia, such promise and originality this time period held, and such worthless slime this channel has now evaporated into.

[mrkb2k]

Nooo. Oh man, this is so not how I envisioned this kick-ass song over the years. Hahah. Wait, is that Sarah Palin? Argh.

[EliAlEim]

now we can understand later bands as Prrodigy and others

[landgabriel]

Back when MTV was the shit.

[porkymania90]

@landgabriel back when MTV actually lived up their name, showing music on television

[landgabriel]

@porkymania90 exactly

[RussX5Z]

Ha ha I didn't know the female lead singer that sang this song looked so pretty with long beautiful hair and nice make up?! I was expected a more punker butch dike look kind of a women. :)

[MOSTechnology]

Marijne van der Vlugt.... She used to give me a rock on back in the day.

Good video by the way :-D

[sylven11]

This is a remake of animal with a female singer,, also the album after up evil,, off i believe the name is, had a female singer in a few songs. so for all of you that 'know' 242 never had a female singer,, your wrong.

[sinisteracoustics]

Haha good comparison Chimayai.

This song kicks ass but does not come out well in mp3 quality.

it is pure agression and 2unintersted is pure sweetnes to satisfy the sheep.

[jorgeerosa]

Are you sure this is Front 242 ?... Its one of my all time 80´s favourite electronic band (just like 70´s Kraftwerk), and i never heard this song before... They have a song called "Animal" indeed, but it´s not this one... OR maybe, i could be missing something...

[e5city]

I just wanna be free

E5P1N

[e5city]

Animal Faith Factory

[GetY0urAssToMars]

lmfao, 2Unlimited, this video is getting trolled hard.

No no limits, we'll reach for the sky! No valley to deep, No mountain too high! No no limits, won't give up the fight! We do what we want and we do it with pride!!!

[Jauly]

lol all you simple minded guys forget that the use of female vocals in front 242 were groundbreaking for the following "female" headed electrobands of the mid and late 90s like garbage, regenerator or dissonance. before front most of the female singers were happy puppets in generic dancefloor projects or crying in guitar based indie-bands.

[PrettyBrg]

I don't understand all the comments about what happened to Front 242, or you're happy you stopped listening to them...........this song came out in 1993, I don't know where you guys are stuck, but that was 17 years ago.....

[pjgh93]

@PrettyBrg ... well, for some of us ... it never really got much better than 1990. Sad, I know but that year and the couple of years afterwards were a very special couple of years.

[mayubhappy]

This totally sucks! What happened to Front 242? They used to make good music once. No good idea to have woman's voice singing for them.

[mejusthappyrobot]

I never knew Sarah Palin worked with Front 242.

[mejusthappyrobot]

I never knew Sarah Palin worked with Front 242.

[AdamRobertPalmer]

Wow - looks like I stopped listening to 242 at the right time.

[TWOxxFRIENDS]

great video :)

[alienvet]

awesome!

[theta9999999theta]

i'm going to the club, max occupancy...1

[polistyrenejassband]

remixes are better

[justinlcox]

This has always been my favorite song from this band

[ilikepez]

hehe... mtv was nice for 10 years in the eighties or so... but every nice memory of that time has been killed at least 10 times by today's mtv... mtv is dead

[MrFiend71]

@ilikepez Yes, today MTV is agreat shit

[DjMarkye]

@ilikepez I was gonna say that.

[lacrahuntington]

@ilikepez In the 90's MTV was at It's peak, original programming and everything in between, and on the 2000 everything got shitty and commercial.

[Chimmyt2]

@ilikepez Sadly yes. MTV used to be the vanguard of style and music, now its just bland shit

[theralle]

@ilikepez

MTV SUCKS...!!!! :-(((

[scrapthrall]

@ilikepez

Amen...

Or are we just getting, well, old? :)

Cheers

[ghislainevonwald]

I wasn't around when MTV still was all about music on tv, so I can't imagine how awesome it must have been to have a channel with decent music videos instead of the "repeats the same lame (top 40, all sound the same) videos daily for the two-four hours of the day that nobody is awake" thing they're doing now :(

[funnybusiness442]

what is this shit? sounds like 2 unlimited. fuck this band!

[digitalbeat]

This is like a fast microsoft powerpoint presentation called a music video in MTV.

[rockstarRon]

When MTV played music videos. \m/

[brycebrown1221]

thi sounds like Lords of Acid.

[provito]

mtv?!

[belen2000]

lisergic!

[slakecx]

NEW ALBUM FRONT 242??

[Biolhaut]

c'est du Front 242 ???

mama mia c'est un desastre!!

musicalement on dirait du SHAMEN avec un chant feminin

elle est ou la force,la fougue,le coté froid dansant qui caracterisait si bien les papis de l'EBM?

[SlightlyDeath]

"You put me in a cage!" - even today that's still a great song. I like this industrial/electro-stuff; usually I listen to metal, but Front242 - simply rules!

[Blamberweiserscheise]

@SlightlyDeath

Hey man,

I'm a metalhead too, but, welcome to Belgium !

[thewhitetowers]

FOR micah and nhs trust CALINUTZ FREDDY DAVID

[vnvfan666]

Love the band and the song..Saw them live in Toronto awhile back with project pitch fork great show..

[DanielNailed]

One of my favourites...even now, after all this time.

Still sounds fresh to me :)

[skrapyard444]

this is from the 90s

[Shalhavot]

early 90s

[alontrostanetsky]

1993 2 b Xact

;)

[alontrostanetsky]

as far as im concerned, a group that began music in the 80's is always making 80's music, even in the year 2020 :)

the track is great anyway yet the clip is embaracing

[aisananda]

@alontrostanetsky - So by that theory, Nine Inch Nails made 80's music? riiiiight......

[alontrostanetsky]

no, nin was a visionary...

[permanentbliss]

@alontrostanetsky check out the music the Church band is making now, no way 80's

[throwntomato]

this is groundbreaking. very innovative.

[christophenordfrance]

i like this,very,very much

je suis du nord de la france

[RIFF0RAFF]

sweet trance :-)

[derpestarzt]

Do not like.

[TexasLibra]

Whoa, I had no idea Kristin Kowalski was that effen HOT! Hard to believe this is a Front 242 video though.

[backpacc]

I really like this....the lyrics remind me of how we all feel in school

[jb46292]

badass track

[schattenkreuzz]

schade muss immer alles in der sprache der nation sein die Krieg führt und auf der ganzen Welt Dreck hinterlässt....

[Aardcore]

And over a decade later-- Nine Inch Nails makes a return with "The Hand that Feeds"... anyone feel that song is a reinvention of this one? Because I do-- hot damn was this a track ahead of its time!

[Rusheeth]

Well just the lyrics, the music between the two songs is pretty different.

*dances*

[siliconsunset]

I was thinking something similar. There are the makings of a few NIN songs in this. Even more in other Front 242 songs. NIN is a goth/industrial media blender, mixing and re-purposing stuff from great music to make good/mediocre music. Woo.

[vroammm]

Dat soort presenteren vanop Mtv da mis ik nu wel. Toen was dat echt een muziek zender en nu anno 2009 is dat gewoon een entertaiment zender geworden.

[timtama1]

This music video was obviously made around the same time that Sega Mega cd released the Make my video series (Marky Mark and inxs) Some of the footage shown in the background in the strips are in the inxs game. Great to see the advancement of technology has been used to describe the Animals Vs Angels. I love it and front 242!!!!!

[burntrobot]

Holy Sh*t when this song came out it friken smashed speakers

[82GROZERIAX]

punchis pucnhis =P

[skrapyard444]

ha ha ha i love the part where her head is a skull ha ha

[lexigore]

God I love this song.

[ArtsAlign]

she's obviously making fun of the whole fashion industry and not taking herself seriously. how many female artists would be brave enough to do that today? None. That's a true industrial soul there. and shame on all you industrial poseurs who expect her to conform to the "industrial look". Listen to the lyrics! She wants to be free of conformity. Isn't that what industrial music is supposed to be all about???

[MrUberpink]

AMEN, ArtsAlign. So true. She rocks and owns hard. two thumbs up for her.

[thevoodoonarc]

there is no conforming comformer or wht ever, because when your against "conforming" your comfornming with the anti conformers, therefore there will be an ifanit loop of conforming, and when something is constant it's the norm, so there is nodiferce between hot-topic and american egale

[albatros777]

Heh, you can manipulate people often by telling them how they wont act.

It's even worked on me. A friend of mine told me I wouldn't like "waking life" and fooled me into thinking I liked it the first time. :-/

[skrapyard444]

you nailed it

[geobo11]

two... , you can not put me in a cage...back and relax , motherfuckers! :)

[geobo11]

gorgeous and krasivo na balgarski i shasliva na ruskii

[caltobi]

if i loose my eyes and ears tomorrow f242 will be the thing i will most likely remember

[Nick7315]

Omg - This is a 2Unlimited rip off!

[justiceleague3000]

HOW DARE YOU compare Front 242 to 2Unlimited??!!! Go wash your mouth out with SOAP!!!

[vaex23]

@justiceleague3000 he better wash it with clorox

[pinkichiban]

@justiceleague3000

It's not soap I'd wash their mouth's out with...

[autobahn303]

@justiceleague3000 ...BIEN DICHO......¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[1dementiakitty]

@justiceleague3000 .................hahahahahahah­ahahaha, oh, I needed a gooooooooooood f*** laugh!

[chimayai]

HAHAHA That was funny...comparing Front 242 to 2 Unlimited is like comparing sex with a goddess to a handjob in a dilapidated hotel with an unwashed eunuch.

[1981analog]

@chimayai That's quite possibly the best retort I've ever heard.

[ChiefNauiLittleBitch]

@chimayai It all depends on how drunk and stupid you are, nicht wahr?

Never underestimate the American capacity for stupidity. The worst part is, we pride ourselves on it.

[arkham6]

WTF???

[braindonater]

Awful..just awful.

[sisterthing]

I really love both albums that came out that year. They were very different from each other.

I remember playing this to a girlfriend who hated it with a passion even though she was right into their earlier works. Then she heard me playing the album many years later when we had long since broken up and sharing a house. She loved it and begged me to let her make a copy, she loved it with a passion.

[spinetilt]

Is this a joke? What the hell happened to them? I can't believe this is real.  Sad. Very sad.

[Wyrehedd242]

have to agree... totally lost it.. that chick needs to shut up. lol guess the days of the real 242 are over....

[MrUberpink]

pull yourselves together girls, this is childish, this is about 15, 16 years ago now? probably before most of u were born so shut the f*ck up ,-this is good spice to front 242. Nothing wrong in trying something else now and then. -Listen to "crushed", shes there too and that song is more 242ish than this one (if this song makes ur small childrenstomachs vomit)

[macabrothehyda]

female is Bridget Fonda

[craneelit]

who is she?

[JulioNexus]

Christine 99

[craneelit]

how is she ?

[TheMorMor]

My god..how could front 242 become this bad.

[v12345vtm]

waar is de tijd dat mtv zo aangekondigd werd!

[sambalbei]

old2....gimmy the old headhunter stuff

thisisalwaysthesame.....ja inderdidi

[vroammm]

Precies The Prodigy

[EditorsFan]

zonder Front 242 was er nooit The Prodigy geweest zoals we zu nu kennen hé

[alchi74]

Front Рулез!!!!!!!!!!!

[Enegyxo]

Classic!

[arclight2012]

Yep, it's official...I'm old.

[EliAlEim]

ja ja, joder esto deja a los prodigy y Chemical bros de 10 años después a la altura del betún...

[noobaroni]

there music is alot better than their videos. lol

[glennstg]

I love this gal's vocals... this is the first time I've been able to see what she looks like. (She's *cute*!)

[borsuk109]

świetne!!!!

[radovest]

Jesus, I didn't thought that MTV could handle such sh.t