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Seriously. I just relistened to Two Tribes for the first time in ages and all I could think was that Front 242 had to have heard it before making Headhunter in '88, or Nitzer Ebb Join in the Chant in '87.
All bands were formed within about a year of each other (80/81/82) but hot DAMN. I never noticed how hard Frankie was until I just sat and gave this track a relisten.
Edit: didn't differentiate 242 w Nitzer because I'm a bad tired goth girl who needed sleep.
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Frankie goes to Hollywood was produced by Trevor Horn. He produced a ton of 80s groups, so many that I think it is hard to produce any sort of electronic music without taking some inspiration from what he did.
Trevor Horn invented the 80s.
Along with Phil Collins, who discovered gated reverb.
Actually, that was Peter Gabriel‘s sound technician. Collins liked the sound so much that he kept using it for In the Air Tonight.
Producer Steve Lillywhite and Engineer Hugh Padgham discovered gated reverb.
This.
Phil Collins snare sound defined the 80’s
I'm amazed I didn't know about this guy. The name was familiar, can't say much else.
Of course he produced them. This makes so much damn sense.
Art of Noise (also on ZTT) could go hard too.
This is absolutely true.
And let's not forget Propaganda, also on ZTT.
A Secret Wish is by far my favourite ZTT album and in my top 10 80s albums. Dr. Mabuse still sounds crisp, clean and utterly sleek.
Like Frankie, The Art of Noise was a Trevor Horn project.
Joint in the Chant is Nitzer Ebb, not Front 242
You're correct. I wrote that out while about to go to bed, ironically with a Nitzer Ebb shirt on from when they popped by about 2/3 years ago. Tired brain begets tired mistakes. 👀
Still trying to figure out where the hell the damn pin (fell off a jacket) got off to in my closet from the same merch grab. It's making me worry that there's a black hole in there a la Wristcutters with the damn passenger seat.
Life goes on day after day after day after day…. Pleasure Dome man was that an escape
I remember I had a youth group leader who told us he didn’t like us listening to that song. I told him I didn’t agree with that, because I didn’t like the idea of censorship. He told me that the song was about not ejaculating too fast during sex, which was news to me. That was the end of that conversation. Still love the song, though.
Geeze. Let kids figure this shit out when they're older!
He would have just died seeing me belting out TLC's Red Light Special from my walk"person" (I had a knockoff portable player) when I was about 10. No damn idea what I was singing about, just thought it was about a room that was red.
Maybe it was an adult industry career foreshadowing early on...
0.o It's literally about war. NFI how he got that interpretation.
They're thinking of Relax which is the only Frankie Goes to Hollywood song most people from that time know/remember.
Two Tribes is like Ah-ha's The Sun Always Shines on TV; the less remembered follow up from a band most consider a one hit wonder.
Aah, yup. Just read the lyrics to that and he was bang on. :)
And on a different note, I much prefer their version of "Born to Run"
the tempo is faster, there is a killer bass line in it and no sax solo
Unrelated -- Mr robot?!
Good catch! It's a pseudonym of Christian Slater's character in Pump Up The Volume
Aha, you're so right!
I was JUST talking about that with someone the other day too, but I commented right as I was about to fall asleep (it didn't take, as it's only 1am and I just randomly woke up).
Doing my first MR rewatch and it's such an interesting thing the second time around.
That was definitely a time of sax solo love.
‘Relax, don’t do it…’.
SPOT ON. Industrial vibes for sure.