Still a banging classic & hits just as hard from the first time I heard it from this video on a late night show, hit hard as anything from 1989 or any time. What a freaking single & a time machine dream, thank you for having this on yt!!!
I was more than ready for this, perfect timing. And 21 years after Clint Mansell did Lux Aeterna, on the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack, likely the greasiest soundtrack ever - so good it was stolen for the LOTR: Two Towers trailer. Without this failing he wouldn’t have become the great composer he is today. Everything has a time and place.
Going on a weird esoteric nostalgia trip tonight, I guess and I had to look this song up again. Fall of '89 - first semester at college, life seemed so full of possibilities. Started hanging out with Lenny - cool dude I met in my Psych 101 class. LOADS of personal issues, but a solid guy nonetheless. You know the type. He introduced me to all sorts of new music - PWEI, Faith no more, Soundgarden, etc. We got to see PWEI at a local club show - my first 'rock concert' tbh, and it was great. good times. I kinda miss Lenny - haven't been in touch with him in a long, long, long time. Hope he's doing okay these days.
I was ready to comment that those movies weren't even out when this song was. Nvm. Don't forget transformers. Yeah yeah...2 year comment post. I'm bored
PWEI was so far ahead of their time. At a time when sampling other bands was in its infancy, PWEI was the first band to not only sample THEIR OWN music (they lifted parts from the album before this one called "Box Frenzy"). But pushed that definition to the extreme when a "later track" (side2 of cassette/album) sampled a song from "earlier track" (side1)!!! It was the most brilliant thing I had ever heard of. The sheer SCOPE of "Paul's Boutique" overshadowed "This is the Day...", but PWEI was so nerdy and weird it stands on its own. It's not BETTER than "Paul's Boutique", but it's also on a totally different plane, they aren't comparable. The kind of innovation that "Paul's Boutique" blew heads off around the very same time was exactly how "This is the Day..." and "Cure for Sanity" hit my ears. It was just... MAGIC.
I first heard Hit The High Tech Groove on WLIR in '88. I bought their albums and was able to see them play at a little club in Alphabet City (Lower East Side of Manhattan) in 89. Somebody actually threw fries on stage when they did Def Con 1. They definitely were one of the coolest bands out there.
I fell in love with this song on 120 Minutes (late night US MTV) and was worried that when I bought the album, it would just be a fluke. I was happily surprised that in fact the entire album was exactly what I had hoped for...100% dystopian futuristic punk rock hip hop. 100% very metal noise pollution. F yeah. After all, this IS the day, this IS the hour, THIS IS F'ING THIS.
What a smart bunch these guys were , Def Con One. sample's 1 The Osmonds 2,The Creatures 3. Iggy Pop 4Lips Inc 5 Sex Pistols an a funky drum roll from somewhere !!! And it's a anti War,,U S A ,,shit fast food ,piss take. And funny as fuck
Geek culture?????? Used to smoke loads of the good stuff to this back in the day! So if that labels me as a geek... Then fair enough... Can you dig it? 😁
I saw these guys live 1991 (iirc). Bloody awesome gig. I swear they must have been the fittest guys on the entire damn planet at the time. They danced like whirling dervish while singing the entire 2 hours. I've no idea how they kept going that long. I was tripping but nowhere near the level these guys were at.
Back in 1989 I thought they were the coolest when I heard them on the radio. But I changed my mind when I saw the starry turtleneck he was wearing in the video clip. Now I'm hungry for some ribs. Can you dig it?
Heard this getting ready to see depeche mode on their violator tour 90'. They were playing this and suddenly everyone started singing to it.. still jamming in 2020!
I went to Depeche Mode's Violator Tour 90 show 25 June 1990 Cincinnati Riverbend with my oldest and youngest brother. We smoked some amazing marijuana and were blown away by Depeche Mode's show from a nice seat leaning against the wall at the top of the lawn. Still my favorite concert ever. Nitzer Ebb was the opening band. Saw Pop Will Eat Itself Tour For Sanity Cincinnati Ohio Bogarts not sure of the date and it was an amazing show. Also one of the best shows i have ever seen. Here is an interesting write up of PWEI from 1991. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/04/12/pop-will-eat-its-leftovers/6a542917-7dec-4864-8231-6ef4958f635e/
In the interest of posterity for one of my favorite bands, it should be noted that the version for this video is some weird "edited for length" remix. The album version is a full minute longer and just generally flows better. Do yourself a favor and get the whole album, it's a rare example where the entire album is better than the sum of its parts.
At the time, i didn't know who Alan Moore was and confused him Bobby Moore 😁 Now, I see that there multiple references to him and his work in the song and in the video 😁
James Harvey And a huge thumbs up for being old enough and awesome enough to know what a ZX Spectrum is. I even miss my ZX81 with its ram pack wobble (3 pages from the guardian solved that)
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey! We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey! We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey! We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey! We dig TV we dig remote control, We dig the Furry Freak Brothers and the Twilight Zone, We dig Marvel and D.C., we dig Run-DMC, We dig Renegade Soundwave and AC/DC (Can you dig it?) Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn, Dirty Harry, Make my day, Terminator, hit the north, Alan Moore knows the score, Riffs? Yeah! Can you dig it? Riffs? Yeah! Can you dig it? We dig Optimus Prime and not Galvetron, We dig The Leader of the Pack and the Do-Run-Run, Spinderella and Bruce Lee, The Bad and the Ugly, V for Vendetta and Into the Groovy. (Can you dig it?) We like the music, we like the disco song...hey! We like the music, we like the disco song...hey!
They were glorifying the type of pop culture that so many more people are into now. Sci-fi, comics, pop, rap, rock, sampling, all of it! I had a friend who was into all of that stuff, like me, when this track was 1st out, but he hated this song! He was a dick! Rock on Pop Will Eat Itself!
i am sure i watched this live back in the day at one of there first live performances in stourbridge. I cant for the life of me what the pub was called though, but i remember a raised stage and a long queue for the bar :)
i always thought it was the mighty Alan Ball - whom after such an illustrious footy carreer, dropped dead whilst stoking a bonfire in his back garden. Great stuff - still have the cassette with roached card thingy. Peace from the super stuck up new forest X
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Definitely took some inpiration from Sigue Sigue Sputnik in a good way. This was a time of Tranvision Vamp, Ned's Atomic Dustbin & Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and many more...
Did you know that Trent probably mentioned them because he produced one of their later albums (last album?) It's crazy to think that I bought and loved, Loved, LOVED the first 4 PWEI albums but that 5th one Trent produced, which SHOULD have been utterly amazing because of Trent, was actually terrible. Sometimes the magic just doesn't happen.
Are yuh referin' to thee New-york gang war movie ? In this case, I'd advice yuh to watch, after, "The Wanderers", another earlier movie, takin' place in New-york also, but around 1963, which reveals a big deal, especially seen in comparizon with "The Warriors", to catch a glimpse about gang war evolution . Both brilliant . Ahow !
And if you are referin to thee New York gang war movie I'd advise yuh to watch afterwards "The Ultimate Warrior" staring Yul Brynner a post apocalyptic gang movie set in the ruins of New York.
this is a song about the warriors the riffs and Cyrus saying caaaaaaaan yooooou dig it I know this just ask my youngest son Cyrus who was named after the gang leader
do you know fuzz townsend of car sos programme he was in this band back then bloody good mechanic and he was great in this band back in the 80s awesome
Seem to remember buying this at the same time as f1 11 love missile siege seige Sputnik 😂…….. around the same time as jack to the sound of the underground …….think I had a picture of Chacka Kahn on my wall 🫡🫡🫡🫡
Happy Birthday Alan Moore.
70 today.
Still a banging classic & hits just as hard from the first time I heard it from this video on a late night show, hit hard as anything from 1989 or any time. What a freaking single & a time machine dream, thank you for having this on yt!!!
The lead singer is now the most sought after film composer in the world
Well, him and the guy from the Buggles video.
And lead singer from Oingo Boingo Danny Elfman
And Trent Reznor
And Jonny Greenwood.
And Mark Mothersbaugh
These guys were ten years too early, people were not ready for this shit. this and "def Con One" are just classics!
Some of us were already well like this, long before this.
....Some of us were ready
Some of us were not ready for the star pattern turtleneck
I was more than ready for this, perfect timing. And 21 years after Clint Mansell did Lux Aeterna, on the Requiem For A Dream soundtrack, likely the greasiest soundtrack ever - so good it was stolen for the LOTR: Two Towers trailer. Without this failing he wouldn’t have become the great composer he is today. Everything has a time and place.
@@watercolourmark I've heard all that before, it is mad though 😁
It's Partiboi69, MLWTTKK, and KMFDM all wrapped in one. I dig it!
I distinctly remember watching this video on 120 minutes…memories…
Going on a weird esoteric nostalgia trip tonight, I guess and I had to look this song up again. Fall of '89 - first semester at college, life seemed so full of possibilities. Started hanging out with Lenny - cool dude I met in my Psych 101 class. LOADS of personal issues, but a solid guy nonetheless. You know the type. He introduced me to all sorts of new music - PWEI, Faith no more, Soundgarden, etc. We got to see PWEI at a local club show - my first 'rock concert' tbh, and it was great. good times. I kinda miss Lenny - haven't been in touch with him in a long, long, long time. Hope he's doing okay these days.
Loved this song back in the day. Made me remember another "way back" classic. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
PWEI actually covered that song on Box Frenzy. Best of both worlds.
References "V for Vendetta", "Watchmen", and "The Killing Joke" while sampling "The Warriors"... we can dig it!
It's almost like a Beastie Boys song with all the pop culture references.
I was ready to comment that those movies weren't even out when this song was. Nvm. Don't forget transformers.
Yeah yeah...2 year comment post. I'm bored
What is "The Warriors"？
@@DavidDrakeford ruclips.net/video/MV4cgs-bPic/видео.html
Where is the "Killing Joke " reference ...
Vote Dr Doom ????
PWEI rules the planet Earth. Always have, always will.
It's amazing how all their references are still in pop culture I think that was concious decision by Clint and he definitely won
Wish fulfillment. His work with Trent Result and on The Watchmen show is great.
Love this; Stourbridges finest export. Used to give it the beans on the dance floor back in the day....great stuff.
Just glad someone finally gave Optimus Prime the props he deserves.
PWEI was so far ahead of their time. At a time when sampling other bands was in its infancy, PWEI was the first band to not only sample THEIR OWN music (they lifted parts from the album before this one called "Box Frenzy"). But pushed that definition to the extreme when a "later track" (side2 of cassette/album) sampled a song from "earlier track" (side1)!!!
It was the most brilliant thing I had ever heard of. The sheer SCOPE of "Paul's Boutique" overshadowed "This is the Day...", but PWEI was so nerdy and weird it stands on its own. It's not BETTER than "Paul's Boutique", but it's also on a totally different plane, they aren't comparable.
The kind of innovation that "Paul's Boutique" blew heads off around the very same time was exactly how "This is the Day..." and "Cure for Sanity" hit my ears. It was just... MAGIC.
Which sample is the one from earlier in the album?
The comparison to PB is one that is never made as far as I’ve seen but one I’ve always made myself
You should check out ‘Hot Doggie’ by Colourbox. Came out on 4ad in 1987.
Anyone else think this was ahead of its time? With this song they basically invednted the 1990s
I first heard Hit The High Tech Groove on WLIR in '88. I bought their albums and was able to see them play at a little club in Alphabet City (Lower East Side of Manhattan) in 89. Somebody actually threw fries on stage when they did Def Con 1. They definitely were one of the coolest bands out there.
My favourite band when I was 8yrs old. Damn I had good taste.
You had an 8 year old's taste
@@Spectrescup eww, you sicko
@@Spectrescup eww, you sicko
@@Spectrescup eww, you weirdo
@@Spectrescup you taste like poopy farts
I fell in love with this song on 120 Minutes (late night US MTV) and was worried that when I bought the album, it would just be a fluke. I was happily surprised that in fact the entire album was exactly what I had hoped for...100% dystopian futuristic punk rock hip hop. 100% very metal noise pollution. F yeah. After all, this IS the day, this IS the hour, THIS IS F'ING THIS.
Alfred Light
Great comment! They really rocked with an extremely healthy back catalogue
PWEI was the very legit version of Sigue Sigue Sputnik
What a smart bunch these guys were ,
Def Con One. sample's
1 The Osmonds
2,The Creatures
3. Iggy Pop
4Lips Inc
5 Sex Pistols
an a funky drum roll from somewhere !!!
And it's a anti War,,U S A ,,shit fast food ,piss take. And funny as fuck
',worried it might be a fluke ' .... wow, you think like I do !! !❤
A geek culture anthem from back when only geeks knew there was such a thing as geek culture 😊
but also lad culture, working class nerds
Geek culture?????? Used to smoke loads of the good stuff to this back in the day! So if that labels me as a geek... Then fair enough... Can you dig it? 😁
he must have confused the spelling for the word ‘Greek’. that’s clearly what he meant.
WTF geeks?
Exactly
This band is so extremely 80s/90s, but many artists now use the same formula and being succesful, they were in a way ahead of their time.
Great stuff! The Poppies were huge.
this is one of those tunes you can't get out of your head. I CANT, NOT DIG IT !
Pop hasn’t just eaten itself, it’s puked itself back up again.
Or shit itself put the other side, judging from most 'Pop' nowadays.
"You Warriors are good. Real good..." - The Riffs
"....the best".
@@SerialGothQueens Beat me to it!
Possibly the most perfect song.
They were right, pop *has* eaten itself.
I saw these guys live 1991 (iirc). Bloody awesome gig.
I swear they must have been the fittest guys on the entire damn planet at the time. They danced like whirling dervish while singing the entire 2 hours. I've no idea how they kept going that long. I was tripping but nowhere near the level these guys were at.
Speed is one hell of a drug 😂
Suddenly I'm getting ready to go out on a Saturday night and pick up my mates in my Dad's Ford Escort.
Back in 1989 I thought they were the coolest when I heard them on the radio.
But I changed my mind when I saw the starry turtleneck he was wearing in the video clip.
Now I'm hungry for some ribs. Can you dig it?
One of the earliest (and coolest) examples of Nerdcore, before the term even existed!
it's Grebo, which I'm fairly sure PWEI invented. I guess if you're in a genre that consists of like 4 bands you have to invent your own titles lol
Heard this getting ready to see depeche mode on their violator tour 90'. They were playing this and suddenly everyone started singing to it.. still jamming in 2020!
I went to Depeche Mode's Violator Tour 90 show 25 June 1990 Cincinnati Riverbend with my oldest and youngest brother. We smoked some amazing marijuana and were blown away by Depeche Mode's show from a nice seat leaning against the wall at the top of the lawn. Still my favorite concert ever. Nitzer Ebb was the opening band. Saw Pop Will Eat Itself Tour For Sanity Cincinnati Ohio Bogarts not sure of the date and it was an amazing show. Also one of the best shows i have ever seen. Here is an interesting write up of PWEI from 1991. www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/04/12/pop-will-eat-its-leftovers/6a542917-7dec-4864-8231-6ef4958f635e/
In the interest of posterity for one of my favorite bands, it should be noted that the version for this video is some weird "edited for length" remix. The album version is a full minute longer and just generally flows better. Do yourself a favor and get the whole album, it's a rare example where the entire album is better than the sum of its parts.
First time I heard the Poppies I thought it was somebody fucking around with some unreleased Buzzcocks songs.
I used to blast this out my flat windows of my flat in Wolverhampton when I was 17....god I still fuckin dig it
At the time, i didn't know who Alan Moore was and confused him Bobby Moore 😁 Now, I see that there multiple references to him and his work in the song and in the video 😁
Similar to me, but I had him confused with Brian Moore the football commentator. "Alan Moore knows the score" - made sense to me! 😁
There's not too many comic creators you can sing about and still be cool.
Diggin it and hoping for an opportunity to see these chaps "live".
Best alan moor tribute
I have not heard this song since WLIR went off the air.
Thanks for the post...
Ahead of it's time with elements of retro even for its own time.
I've not been able to get this song out of my head for 20+ years, and I have no idea why?!
Same. It seems like it will never leave my head
I haven't thought of it in that long and now that I've heard it again, it will be stuck in my head for the next 20.
@@douglaswhittaker1991 Welcome to the club!
Still a great song! Used to jam out to this and Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Same here. Those 2 groups DO have similar music styles.
I used to love these guysaround 1991
ALAN MOORE KNOWS THE SCORE, isn't this the single greatest lyric in rock history?
+Francesco Birsa Alessandri If you like Alan Moore
You mean there's people who DON'T?
Be sure to ask him about ducks. He has stated in the past that he considers them sinister.
also a ref. to The Fall - Hit the North.
no. I love this song though
It's like the staff of a ZX Spectrum magazine got bonked on the head and woke up thinking they were Public Enemy.
James Harvey But still freakin' awesome... if nothing else, the Poppies were a band that never apologized, well, for anything
James Harvey And a huge thumbs up for being old enough and awesome enough to know what a ZX Spectrum is. I even miss my ZX81 with its ram pack wobble (3 pages from the guardian solved that)
James Harvey
10 PRINT "RIFFS YEAH CAN U DIG IT"
20 GOTO 10
and now.... Skooldaze.
James Harvey they supported P.E on a tour once and caused a shitstorm because they weren't black.
+James Harvey
Brilliant!! That deserves a lol - LOL!!
I can dig it!!!
Way ahead of there time these boys.
This is still money in #2023!
Oh yeah I can dig it man...
My god, I used to think I was so badass for loving PWEI. I still love it, but it's an ironic kind of love. Wow, what a silly video!
Plot twist: you DID used to be badass for loving PWEI.
What happened to ya man?? ;)
I don't think anyone would ever accuse them of taking themselves seriously! Ha ha
i came to pass the blunt around,. its 🔥its🔥,.
Best band of 2017
best song ever
OMG, '89 am I ACTUALLY this old????
Nope, you're actually ever so slightly older.
James Watker plus one week.
I’m going to take a guess and say that by now you’re 45 years old 🤔
P w e i score points for sheer creativity this is f****** brilliant😊
0:21 I almost came in singing "WE CARE A LOT".
How did I ever miss these?
Yeah. I can dig it.
ALAN MOORE KNOWS THE SCORE
"We like the music, we like the disco sound hey!"
Finally a high quality version of this video has been uploaded! Awesome - Collected Thoughts
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco sound...hey!
We dig TV we dig remote control,
We dig the Furry Freak Brothers and the Twilight Zone,
We dig Marvel and D.C., we dig Run-DMC,
We dig Renegade Soundwave and AC/DC
(Can you dig it?)
Bruce Wayne auf weidersehn,
Dirty Harry, Make my day,
Terminator, hit the north,
Alan Moore knows the score,
Riffs? Yeah! Can you dig it?
Riffs? Yeah! Can you dig it?
We dig Optimus Prime and not Galvetron,
We dig The Leader of the Pack and the Do-Run-Run,
Spinderella and Bruce Lee, The Bad and the Ugly,
V for Vendetta and Into the Groovy.
(Can you dig it?)
We like the music, we like the disco song...hey!
We like the music, we like the disco song...hey!
Pop Will Eat Itself Killed the Video Star.
What a gem!
They were glorifying the type of pop culture that so many more people are into now. Sci-fi, comics, pop, rap, rock, sampling, all of it! I had a friend who was into all of that stuff, like me, when this track was 1st out, but he hated this song! He was a dick! Rock on Pop Will Eat Itself!
PWEI! Bout time I thought of rhem@!!❤
I've still got the limited orange single of this :)
+Austin Duffield Me too! one of the first singles I ever bought.
+Austin Duffield Hah! I got this one too! Bargain bin, Woolworths, Pontypool high street, 1989. My god, I got some glorious stuff out of that bin.
+marquisofcarrabass I got mine from a record store on Norwich market :)
from alan moore to dirty harry, a list of cooler pop culture influences it would be hard to find.
RIFFS YEAH CAN YOU DIG IT
i am sure i watched this live back in the day at one of there first live performances in stourbridge. I cant for the life of me what the pub was called though, but i remember a raised stage and a long queue for the bar :)
Miles Hunt would remember
The Mitre ?
I can dig it.
i always thought it was the mighty Alan Ball - whom after such an illustrious footy carreer, dropped dead whilst stoking a bonfire in his back garden. Great stuff - still have the cassette with roached card thingy. Peace from the super stuck up new forest X
Still the best.!
that band name is a solid future prediction lol/cry no surprise that he is a successful film scorer
Only here because Fuzz found a PWEI tape in an old car on Car SOS. Never would have heard of them otherwise.
same here lol
now i know why he became a mechanic....
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They weren't ahead of their they were there at the right time.
Watchmen
Killing Joke
V for Vendetta.
He knows the score.
They ROCKED the GREENWOOD PARROT!!
I also dig Marvel and DC.... I can dig it. These PWEI Warriors are good. Real good.
Definitely took some inpiration from Sigue Sigue Sputnik in a good way. This was a time of Tranvision Vamp, Ned's Atomic Dustbin & Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and many more...
Carter did it best.
Get out of my cassette collection Vaniel.
It's taken me until now - so, okay 33+ years - to realise the V for Vendetta shout on in this. Kill me.
grebo grebo grebo grebo grebo grebo grebo grebo grebo
Always the first pwei track played for my mates, closely followed by Wise Up and Cicciolina.
Here because Trent Reznor mentioned them AGES ago (like 92ish) and never checked them out.
Did you know that Trent probably mentioned them because he produced one of their later albums (last album?) It's crazy to think that I bought and loved, Loved, LOVED the first 4 PWEI albums but that 5th one Trent produced, which SHOULD have been utterly amazing because of Trent, was actually terrible.
Sometimes the magic just doesn't happen.
@@thenudebrewer7466 trent didn’t produce it or anything, they were just on his label. So it wasn’t like a collaboration or anything
" Ok let's get down to a bopper".
¿Dónde estuvo esta canción toda mi vida?
This Clint mansell the film composer.
Alan Moore does know the score... He shoulda gotten involved with the film version of Watchmen and made some f'kin' money!
He’s not that interested in money.
Especially good after a 4 star spliff! 😁 👌🚬
Muito legal essa banda!
Riffs? (YEAH) Can U dig it?
Still here in November 2020....still diggin it
Must watch The Warriors again soon!
Are yuh referin' to thee New-york gang war movie ? In this case, I'd advice yuh to watch, after, "The Wanderers", another earlier movie, takin' place in New-york also, but around 1963, which reveals a big deal, especially seen in comparizon with "The Warriors", to catch a glimpse about gang war evolution . Both brilliant . Ahow !
And if you are referin to thee New York gang war movie I'd advise yuh to watch afterwards "The Ultimate Warrior" staring Yul Brynner a post apocalyptic gang movie set in the ruins of New York.
Nobody got Cecil's reference, which is kind of embarrassing...
Kevan Dalzell I got it!
this is a song about the warriors the riffs and Cyrus saying caaaaaaaan yooooou dig it I know this just ask my youngest son Cyrus who was named after the gang leader
do you know fuzz townsend of car sos programme he was in this band back then bloody good mechanic and he was great in this band back in the 80s awesome
He didn't join the band until a couple of years after this, early 90s
One of the greatest pieces of music ever. Fact!
Why, yes, as a matter of fact I CAN dig it, thanks for asking!!!
Still raw and so F in cool:)
When knuckleheads on Twitter post 'What's a perfect album?', this is the correct answer: This is the Day... This is the Hour... This is This...
Seem to remember buying this at the same time as f1 11 love missile siege seige Sputnik 😂…….. around the same time as jack to the sound of the underground …….think I had a picture of Chacka Kahn on my wall 🫡🫡🫡🫡
They sound like if early KMFDM had some dorky younger brothers who were trying to sound like them