On this day, 34 years ago, MUTE records released their first Nitzer Ebb product. Although it was initially released by Nitzer Ebb themselves as their official 3rd single (NEP3) through their own label Power Of Voice featuring 'Get Clean' as b-side in May 1986. 'Let Your Body Learn' was re-released by Mute Records (EU) and Geffen Records (US) in April 1987 with different song versions, track-lists and variating artwork, preceding their cult album to be, That Total Age (1987) on Mute Records (1987).
Let Your Body Learn (7” - MUTE58)
A.. Let Your Body Learn (DM Hansa Mix) 2:48
B. Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental) 3:08
Let Your Body Learn (12” - 12MUTE58)
A.. Let Your Body Learn 6:27
B1.. Let Your Body Learn (Instrumental) 3:08
B2. Let Your Body Learn (7" Edit) 2:50
Let Your Body Learn (Lyrics)
Fast beat the feet
Fast fall the hands
Fast beat the feet
Fast fall the hands
Meld in the music
The music of drums
Meld in the music
The music of drums
Choose the fast beat
Choose the hard line
Choose the fast beat
Choose the hard line
Try to show us one better
Not sick to the heart
Not calling with flesh
Suffer little children
Suffer little children
Suffer little children
Written in pain
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Fast beat the feet
Fast fall the hands
Fast beat the feet
Fast fall the hands
Hold onto rhythm
The music of drums
Hold onto rhythm
The music of drums
The pulse is alive
Making me sane
Let your body learn
Let your body build
Let your body learn
Let your body build
Suffer little children
Suffer little children
Suffer little children
The pulse is alive
Fast beat the feet
Fast fall the hands
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Boys at one
Girls at peace
Freedom from fear
Giving release
Freedom from fear
Giving release
Giving release
Giving your heart
Fast beating feet
Fast falling hands
Fast beating feet
Fast falling hands
Fast beat the feet
Fast fall the hands
Choose
Fast beat the feet (learn)
Choose
Fast beat the feet (learn)
Feel
Choose
Let your body learn
Let your body build
Let your body learn
Let your body build
Choose
Learn
Build
Choose
Learn
Build
Choose
Learn
Build
Choose
On Sunday, we will be trown back on the good old days of à;GRUMH...’s European tours concerts from 1986 and 1988 along with Canadian EBM superstars SKINNY PUPPY !!
On the initiative of Skinny Puppy’s leader and hEAD gURU cEVIN Key, à;GRUMH... will have a ZOOM chat about the band’s old days, how the music scene looked like back then, the '86 tour and what happened... backstage...
"It will be a conversation with J3, S3 and cEVIN, together with music, pictures, sounds, maybe farts and probably weird faces and several organ live laceration (human, mostly J3,s and no other animal sacrifice whatsoever). There might even be laughter, sarcasm, French and English, naked bellies, beards, stuffed cats, wine and of course loud insults in Japanese." says à;GRUMH...
How to watch? Join cEVIN’s Patreon website on the link below!
Alternatively, a YouTube live link to this event will be published soon!
Don’t miss this ones in a life time event!
Today 15 years ago, Nine Inch Nails released ‘Every Day Is Exactly the Same’ as their third single taken from the album With Teeth. It became NIN 21st official release thus baring the Halo 21 catalogue number.
The radio single reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock singles chart in the Modern Rock Tracks category and #12 in the Mainstream Rock Tracks category. The song also reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, and received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th annual Grammy Awards. Though a planned music video was scrapped in the post-production stage, "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" still topped Billboard's 2006 year-end Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, it has so far spent 94 weeks on the chart.
Every Day is Exactly the Same (US CD EP tracklist)
1 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" – 4:57
2 "The Hand That Feeds" (DFA Mix) – 9:03
3 "The Hand That Feeds" (Photek Straight Mix) – 7:47
4 "Only" (El-P Mix) – 4:22
5 "Only" (Richard X Mix) – 7:25
6 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (Sam Fog vs. Carlos D Mix) – 5:03
Every Day is Exactly the Same (Lyrics)
I believe I can see the future
'Cause I repeat the same routine
I think I used to have a purpose
But then again, that might have been a dream
I think I used to have a voice
Now I never make a sound
I just do what I've been told
I really don't want them to come around, oh no
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
I can feel their eyes are watching
In case I lose myself again
Sometimes I think I'm happy here
(Sometimes)
Sometimes, yet I still pretend
I can't remember how this got started
Oh, but I can tell you exactly how it will end
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
I'll write it on a little piece of paper
I'm hoping, someday, you might find
Well I'll hide it behind something
They won't look behind
I am still inside her
A little bit comes bleeding through
I wish this could've been any other way
But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
Every day is exactly the same
There is no love here and there is no pain
Every day is exactly the same (every day is the same)
On this day, 19 years ago, Frank Tovey / Fad Gadget died at the age of 45.
Today it’s been already 19 years since Frank Tovey, also known as Fad Gadget, passed away at the age of 45 (°8 September 1956 – † 3 April 2002). He was a pioneer of both (electronic) New-wave and Industrial music. As no other, and we even dare to say upon today, he succeeded in fusing together darkish electro-pop with industrial and noisy experiments.
His sarcastic and darkly humorous view on life reflected his lyrics that were mostly filled with biting social commentary towards subjects such as machinery, industrialization, consumerism, human sexuality, mass media, religion, domestic violence and dehumanization.
In 1978 Frank Tovey sent a demo tape of Back to Nature to Daniel Miller, who had just released his own, and thus first Mute label single, as The Normal.
Tovey signed as Fad Gadget to Daniel Miller's Mute Records made him the first artist to sign to Mute and ”Back to Nature" the second release on Mute Records. The single was recorded on a 8-track recorder and released in 1979. After this successful single release, the follow-up single Ricky’s Hand record was recorded and released. Tovey also began recording a full album, his iconic debut album Fireside Favorites which was released by Mute in November 1980.
In 1981 Tovey released another single “Make Room", featuring the "Lady Shave" on the b-side, the latter went on to become one of his most known and played tracks.
For Tovey the ideas and concepts behind his live performances were just as important as his music. His live appearances quickly became known for his confrontational stage antics.
In total Frank Tovey recorded four albums under the moniker Fad Gadget, four as Frank Tovey and two as Frank Tovey & The Pyros.
After the release and tour from Frank Tovey & The Pyros album Worried Men In Second-Hand Suits (1992) he withdrew from the music scene for almost a decade.
In 2001 he started performing again as Fad Gadget supporting label mates Depeche Mode on their world tour. Fad Gadet was invited by Depeche Mode themselves as they once supported Fad Gadget on tour in 1980.
On April 3rd 2002, only a few days after he had returned home from a Fad Gadget come-back tour through Europe, Frank Tovey died due to a heart failure. Apparently he was aware of the risks of a heart failure that were already diagnosed when he was a chid. This could explain why he called one of the track on his Fireside Favorite debut album the Arch Of The Aorta.
Album Discography
As Fad Gadget
• Fireside Favourites (1980)
• Incontinent (1981)
• Under the Flag (1982)
• Gag (1984)
• The Best of Fad Gadget (2001)
As Frank Tovey
• Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (1984) (with Boyd Rice)
• Snakes and Ladders (1986)
• The Fad Gadget Singles (1986)
• Civilian (1988)
• Tyranny & the Hired Hand (1989)
• Grand Union (1991)
• Worried Men in Second Hand Suits (1992)
• Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey (2006)
SYNAPTIC DEFECT has sent a teaser into the world to anounce their new album "Initializing Insanity", which should come in 2021...
Enjoy this first track "The lack of empathy".
