Before it was mangled by girl bands so painfully sensitive that the singer’s voice sounded like a box of weeping kleenex stranded in a bassinet, Bizarre Love Triangle was a DANCE SONG. It was played in clubs like Dallas’ The Stark club, and danced to by throngs of gays and straights alike, many with heads filled with gen 1 ecstacy, all mod beyond comparison – or frankly, explanation. Williamsburg hipsters of the more recent past have nothing on the mod crowd that <3 New Order. What with their scruffy beards, dirty clothes, and “I-know-better-than-you” airs of superiority, who the hell would want to dance with them anyways??
Dig it. New Order’s Bizarre Love Triangle. Enjoy.
UPDATE: In some kind of suckfest, the video was taken down from YouTube! LAME.
April 3, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Ha. New Order was what the alt suburban kids listened to. In inner city Chicago, the scene was Industrial and centered around Wax Trax Records on Lincoln Ave. and Medusa’s nightclub. We pounded to Ministry, Nitzer Ebb, and Front 242. I distinctly remember dudes in welding masks burying circular saws into piles of metal filling the club with smoke and sending plumes of sparks into the crowd. I counter that lightweight pop BS with Nitzer Ebb “Join in the Chant” and Front 242 – Headhunter…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPpUFBVSyWs
Badass and totally holds up after all these years.
McNitt
(OK, so I listed to New Order too. Nice post.
April 4, 2008 at 5:54 am
Front 242 and Ebb! Good calls! I loved Front 242, and was looking for some of their old tracks the other day! Thanks!!