Apoptygma Berzerk - "Spindizzy"

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I fully support house music getting gothy and angsty. This track is a prime example of why; 4-to-the-floor body-rock matched with Basement Jaxx-influenced sound effects filtered through a industrospookometer. Okay, I'm sure that some will hate the singer, but really he's fantastic.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Is this a new album or a song or...? I still only have two albums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned you goof, you already own this song (track 8 on _Harmonizer_, the one after "Pikachu" where the chorus goes "I feel like I'm flying/Drifting away/Spinning/Floating further away").

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Shows you how much I notice song titles sometimes. ;-) "You know, that one song. With beats!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

++I fully support house music getting gothy and angsty
house getting goth? i dont know about that. Spindizzy is a good enough track, but i prefer Covenant for lite-industrial~

― kephm, Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I prefer Covenant as well. Always hated Apop aside from one or three tracks.

― adam west (adamwest), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 19:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything I've heard by them has been brilliant (_Harmonizer_, "Paranoia", "Kathy's Song")

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny, Apoptygma Berzerk always seemed to be very much a hit-and-miss band, with some incredibly good songs (Kathy's Song, Stitch, Backdraft, Burning Heretic, Deep Red, Eclipse) and at least as many unlistenable exercises in the most bland of industro-goth (I need only mention Suffer In Silence).

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I really like "Suffer In Silence"! That whole "throw-in-a-6/4-bar" thing is classic.

Granted, there are better tracks on _Harmonizer_ ("Spindizzy", "OK Amp Let Me Out", "Unicorn", "Detroit Tickets", "Rollergirl", "Until The End Of The World", "Pikachu") but I still like it.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I just can't get over the horrible, horrible singing. On some tracks he can keep it fairly restrained (his "Dave Gahan mode", like in Kathy's Song), but the "please let me sahffer in saaahaaaylence" chorus is just unbearable.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw, I like that part too.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh heh : Okay, I'm sure that some will hate the singer, but really he's fantastic.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 28 May 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't you mean goth getting housey? Its sort of the other way around ... have you heard his first album? Good lord.

― Xii (Xii), Thursday, 29 May 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Listening to Welcome to Earth for the first time in a while. Gawdamn what great stuff.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

Beborn Beton "The Colour of Love" = proto-Apoptygma/futurepop, like "Paranoia" but less trancey and more '80s

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

"Kathy's Song" is kicking the shit of me right now.

Come. Lie. Next to me.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 2 February 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

my ex-DJ partner turned me onto that song in a big way. i also really like their "shine on" cover, though the two are admittedly pretty different

― joseph (joseph), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:12 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Somehow I had missed they covered the House of Love's "Shine On" last year.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 24 June 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

holy shit, how is it that I managed to never hear "Kathy's Song" before now

― Rob Based and DJ EZ God (DJP), Thursday, 18 August 2011 21:40 (fourteen years ago)

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