Best mildly successful 1993 tuneless noisy industrial dirge banger single by a major act?

STUPID ME!!

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Never heard that Carter song, could almost be World Domination Enterprises, weird!

voted for “snap your fingers snap your neck” by prong

What no Senser? Or Meat Beat Manifesto's 'Mindstream' tho I guess not quite successful enough (UK no. 55).

The idea is these singles were sort of stylistic anomalies, which can't be said for Senser or MBM

No "It's Grim Up North"?

IGUN was 1990 (and then again in 1991)

The targets are po

was something like [rewrites it all again]

Lenny and Terence sounds like Foreheads in a Fishtank or something. Crunchy and amusing as a single. The targets are poor and weak though. Ok Lenny I feel nothing for but Terence? And in 1993? The antecedent is the Wonder Stuff's pathetic Astley in the Noose so at least its some improvement.

I Want You is more like it. proto-big beat grind (specifically '97 era Propellerheads, or Crystal Method) which is just as well because the Saints helped build the template for the house-rock live band thing that Lionrock and Apollo 440 later ran with. The vocoderised pitch-shifting vocal reminds me weirdly of Super Furry Animals.

Marcello says The Gift is INXS' best ever song in his Wherever You Are TPL piece. Sometimes I even agree. There isn't a song attached as such, which imo can't really be said about its probable inspirations Zoo Station and The Fly, but it endears a lot in a palindromic kind of way. Also foreshadows Mel C's Goin' Down [just added that last bit now].

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no "numb"?

I love every Utah Saint single from this era.

Numb isn't really a 'noise' type effort. I do wonder how successful it would have charted had sales of the VHS counted tho (or obv if it was just a proper single).

like it was weird getting to TOTP in the last few weeks (late Nov/early Dec 93) and only just having our only taste of Zooropa (Stay) when the album was a summer blockbuster.

Any attempt to recall Utah Saints' I Want You is shouldered out of the way by the Inspiral Carpets/Mark E Smith effort. INXS sounds pretty empty, voting Carter despite the lazy and, arguably, thoughtlessly racist targeting.

First option is a vote for all three

For me its Utah then INXS then Carter. I quite like how Utah Saints were really in quite the unlikely imperial phase at the time - I think by that point they'd (now semi-famously) gotten through to Courtney and Michael Stipe which is probably more reach than the KLF a year earlier predicted they'd have (when WCYDFM was still their only hit and Something Good was released to radio). Carter do ruin theirs with the bad targets though it appears on their most interesting album.

Presumably because "Numb" was The Edge on vocals, it got vetoed as a 7" single proper by that bloke, oh what's his name?

No proper Lemon either though outside Australia and Japan.

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