It's funny to me how these things surprise all Americans when in the UK we had groups like PIL, Japan, The Creatures or Bauhaus playing on the most watched music program in the country and it was something common. This in the 70s and early 80s! Here you have PIL playing "death disco" on TOTP in 1979 ruclips.net/video/ZB0NdM1HyOU/видео.html, this program was watched by millions of people, and these were all top 40 hits in the UK!
What Gira says at 1:11 pretty much perfectly predicted what this time in American pop would come to be seen as; "A temporary rebellion before people go back to just being consumers." With the success of Nirvana in '91 all of these major labels started snatching up bands that they would've otherwise never touched with a 10 foot pole, like Butthole Surfers, Ween, Sonic Youth, and Swans, as can be seen here. Some of these bands thrived on major labels whereas Swan released arguably their worst album.
@@cwinter458 The Swans BURNING WORLD album predated all that and came out in 1990. Nirvana's NEVERMIND wasn't some radical new thing in the music world; the major labels had been experimenting with signing underground bands since 1985 and trying to break them. Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Swans, Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Janes Addiction were all signed before Nirvana. NEVERMIND was merely the first validation of the experiment.
It's funny to me how these things surprise all Americans when in the UK we had groups like PIL, Japan, The Creatures or Bauhaus playing on the most watched music program in the country and it was something common. This in the 70s and early 80s! Here you have PIL playing "death disco" on TOTP in 1979 ruclips.net/video/ZB0NdM1HyOU/видео.html, this program was watched by millions of people, and these were all top 40 hits in the UK!
You mean MTV used to show artists who had some substance? It wasn't just reality TV about people living pathetically terrestrial material ignorant existences? No, I grew up in the 90s and remember Mtv quite well. Had I seen SWANS on MTV, I would have latched on like a parasite.👍🔥💀🖤🥀⛓️🖕
It's funny to me how these things surprise all Americans when in the UK we had groups like PIL, Japan, The Creatures or Bauhaus playing on the most watched music program in the country and it was something common. This in the 70s and early 80s! Here you have PIL playing "death disco" on TOTP in 1979 ruclips.net/video/ZB0NdM1HyOU/видео.html, this program was watched by millions of people, and these were all top 40 hits in the UK!
Sure, crazy to see them in MTV being the 90s, but by this time they're practically rockstars, love them
It's funny to me how these things surprise all Americans when in the UK we had groups like PIL, Japan, The Creatures or Bauhaus playing on the most watched music program in the country and it was something common. This in the 70s and early 80s! Here you have PIL playing "death disco" on TOTP in 1979 ruclips.net/video/ZB0NdM1HyOU/видео.html, this program was watched by millions of people, and these were all top 40 hits in the UK!
This version of amnesia is awesome
I know I'm a bit late, but I'm fairly certain this is the same recording that's on the Deluxe Love of Life album
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This is absolute gold. Thank you
Swans on mtv
What the actual fuck
What Gira says at 1:11 pretty much perfectly predicted what this time in American pop would come to be seen as; "A temporary rebellion before people go back to just being consumers." With the success of Nirvana in '91 all of these major labels started snatching up bands that they would've otherwise never touched with a 10 foot pole, like Butthole Surfers, Ween, Sonic Youth, and Swans, as can be seen here.
Some of these bands thrived on major labels whereas Swan released arguably their worst album.
@@cwinter458 The Swans BURNING WORLD album predated all that and came out in 1990. Nirvana's NEVERMIND wasn't some radical new thing in the music world; the major labels had been experimenting with signing underground bands since 1985 and trying to break them. Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, Swans, Dinosaur Jr, Pixies, Janes Addiction were all signed before Nirvana. NEVERMIND was merely the first validation of the experiment.
@@zippymufo9765Nevermind was a radical new thing because it became huge compared to other underground bands that were signed to major labels
Fun fact: Kurt Cobain listen a swans album as one of his 50 favourite albums of all time, specifically the Young God EP
It's funny to me how these things surprise all Americans when in the UK we had groups like PIL, Japan, The Creatures or Bauhaus playing on the most watched music program in the country and it was something common. This in the 70s and early 80s! Here you have PIL playing "death disco" on TOTP in 1979 ruclips.net/video/ZB0NdM1HyOU/видео.html, this program was watched by millions of people, and these were all top 40 hits in the UK!
"they looked pretty bovine" 😂😂
This version of Amnesia sound very much like a early version of Mother_Father with that C minor groove
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You mean MTV used to show artists who had some substance? It wasn't just reality TV about people living pathetically terrestrial material ignorant existences? No, I grew up in the 90s and remember Mtv quite well. Had I seen SWANS on MTV, I would have latched on like a parasite.👍🔥💀🖤🥀⛓️🖕
:)
has somebody ever read that this is an edit? i dont think they were on mtv for real lol
It's an edit of the full 20 minutes segment, which is also on RUclips.
120 Minutes was pretty great considering it was MTV
wait what, their on mtv?
It's funny to me how these things surprise all Americans when in the UK we had groups like PIL, Japan, The Creatures or Bauhaus playing on the most watched music program in the country and it was something common. This in the 70s and early 80s! Here you have PIL playing "death disco" on TOTP in 1979 ruclips.net/video/ZB0NdM1HyOU/видео.html, this program was watched by millions of people, and these were all top 40 hits in the UK!