Official Version

Artist: Front 242
Label: Sony
Category: Music

Average customer rating:

Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074645240527
EAN: 0074645240527
ASIN: B0000028L0

Release Date: 1992-06-02

Official Version

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Alt Industrial

Industrial Dance

Tracks:

W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G.
Rerun Time
Television Station
Agressiva Due
Masterhit (Part I & II)
Slaughter
Quite Unusual
Red Team
Angst
Quite Unusual
Agressiva
Masterblaster
Hypnomix

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Customer Reviews:

They're coming down for you.......2005-07-29

Official Version, with its ironic lyrics, unstoppable beats with chopped up samples and repetitive basses, is easily one of the best albums by Front 242, if not the best one. There's much to like in here - the coldness of Quite Unusual and its great text, the machine-like W.Y.H.I.W.Y.G., the alarms and sounds of Rerun Time, the demented telepreaching in Angst - a really clinical, but also highly kinetic, record. Recommended.

Official Version ~ Front 242.......2005-05-10

Official Version being their releases between the years 1986-1987 continues where no comment left of and shows that ebm is not static music by any means. The sounds are quite different and the equipment is nturally much better then on their previous releases. This is a quintensential album when it comes to ebm music and Daniel B and Patrick Codenys have created a sound that many have tried to copy (myself including when I made music back in 1991) and what one does realize is that it is not nearly as easy as it sounds. Tracks such as slaughter, masterhit and television station to mention a few, showcase the best of mid 80's ebm music.

Loved it from the moment I heard it for the first time.......2005-01-04

A friend introduced me to Industrial, EBM, Acid, and other sounds way back in 1990 while we were still in high school. What I never could've imagined is that I'd still be listening to them some 15 years later! This is testament to the genius that many of those bands were, but who never got to be appreciated by the mainstream quite the way they deserved. Official Version was to me THE album that defined Front 242's style and sound, with tracks like "Masterhit" and "Quite Unusual". I never get tired of playing this and other 242 albums, but I do go through streches of time when I don't listen to them and then I get to "rediscover" their beats and melodic sounds that really get the body moving. Front 242's Official Version. What a great band and what a great album!!

"It's A Carnage...".......2003-02-04

242's most remarkable album. This one had a profound effect on me in 1987. To this day I still can hear Jean Luc DeMeyer's vocals in my head ("Hey man you better move aside or I'll run you over..."-Television Station/ "The way the morning broke was quite unusual..."-Quite Unusual/ "It's a carnage, it's a carnage...official version..."-Slaughter). This album was a huge cold war statement and at the time really prevailed as well as 1988's VIVIsectVI by Skinny Puppy. Front 242 are THE prolific pioneers of the EBM movement. Bands like Funker Vogt, In Strict Confidence, VNV Nation, Informatik, etc. are obviously heavily influenced by 242. A "Tour De Force" album and by far my favorite!

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