Alien Sex Fiend - Ignore The Machine (Edit, UK, 1987)

During the early 1980s Alien Sex Fiend had carved a bloody niche for themselves as the originators of techno-goth, a precursor for contemporary outfits the like of Marilyn Manson, Slipknot et al.
ASF fused rockabilly rhythms, Stooges style guitar, gothic horror and synthetic dance beats to create an art form in it's own right. For several years they ruled the outer regions of the whole rock and roll fiasco. The stage shows were legendary ear splitting, headf**king, mutant rage.
The combination of imagery and raw sound inspired acclaimed video artist Karen Bentham to work with the band and for several years afterwards they collaborated on some of the most stunning, truly inspired works of video art ever subjected to magnetic tape. This film contains the very best of those collaborations.
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[@8jaime8]

The sound of my youth! How the hell did I get old? It makes no sense. Those of us who got to be a part of this scene were very lucky. So much fun and endless creativity were a part of everyday life.

[@thepunk3940]

We might be getting on a bit but fuck me we lived with some og the best music ever, the kids nowadays ain't got owt

[@ada5363]

I really like that Nik is very animated (in terms of his facial features), almost cartoon-like and very expressive

[@StephanieDK13Knerr-bq6sdshorts]

Bauhaus688🎉

[@p1ll]

this was my youth in 1985. god that was long time ago love this song!

[@animafelyx]

me to in Italy 80's alternative!! hay

[@animafelyx]

Very alternative. band i remember ...fantastic to dance some yars ago!

[@manfredschmitz1285]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@andchat6241]

I was going to type 'this was before '87 wasn't it ? ' I wonder if this would be played on radio now ( due to 'Rolf Harris ' beginning of song )

[@paddyeejit1954]

@@andchat6241they never received much airplay anyway!

[@sergiomarques1920]

I was stoned at art college in a ripped Alien Sex Fiend t-shirt in the 80s....lol

[@gerardnadrowski5672]

Saw them in 84 my ears still ringing

[@Monkeyhead75]

Mrs Fiend is so bloody cool

[@andrewchesler2029]

Monkeyhead75 she is undead

[@hudson.5940]

the coolest

[@MarcS4R]

hell yeah

[@corvideity]

i bet she's someone's mom and that is fucking badass because i'd love to come to this video and say these were my parents back in the day 👀

[@Transformation70]

SI FU 👍🇨🇭 Z

[@whitlowjohnonly1_2]

Probably the best asf song ever! I had the 'Under the Thunder' e.p. when I was 14. Such a hypnotic lo-fi batcave hawk. Flash forward 35 years and this song still burns in my brain. Yes, I know..

[@AndresFCamacho]

I was 14. Lived in Japan, was at a record store and I wanted something weird. I found it in the A section. I would eventually end up back in the states but listening to more hardcore, but I liked ASF. I think I have around 15+ of their records. I agree this song is prob their "best". I also feel like its very different to their style say 1986+, its more approachable. Anyway, yeah I can always come back to this song.

[@lisaross9335]

Best era for music

[@RogerMoore-ji8eo]

Still love them after 35+ years! Only saw them play live once…. Goth/Punk never leaves you!!

[@memi4586]

This was a great club song. Miss the old days!

[@TheNatural-hbs]

By me they always played Smells Like...and Hurricane Fighter Plane, much better club songs in those days.

[@nyreecardwell6572]

Happy memories of the 80s 🦇😎💀🧟‍♀️💃🏼

[@brendanriley5163]

i always thought Id have crimped backcombed hair Im 53 years old I have a full head of hair thank god but thank god I danced to this on a bouncy Manchester Ritz dancefloor

[@ACMA61]

The mash of goth rock and industrial was incredible at the time, shame they didn't tread the same path and went full industrial for the next albums

[@erintrimcreations]

[@erintrimcreations]

wow thanks for he info@@charlottekrasny

[@StephanieDK13Knerr-bq6sdshorts]

😊🎉❤ 1:19

[@carolineschmidt5961]

❤

[@jessicapatton2688]

I was quite disappointed that industrial didn’t become a full-blown revolution in music and instead it turned to rap and country 🤢 and all that other bullshit that I don’t like

[@frogmoonwildcampsandwander9354]

Still great 2020 .memories

[@faldomann666]

Yes! Jo more to say.

[@edwardtruman8327]

I saw ASF at the Bat Cave in 1983 ish. The Bat Cave was owned by Ollie front man of the band Specimen. Always loved this song.

[@VINLAND_777]

Ollie later had a career as „Olli Wisdom“ the producer behind a few influential „Goa Trance“ projects. Sadly he past away a while ago, but his music is still out there.

[@stephenroldan5107]

Problem is the machine is still going.

[@jonsessions2121]

Jeez where did all those years go

[@corvideity]

just years ago (now almost close to 10 it seems) i was 17 getting into black celebration by depeche mode. holy shit

[@ViciousMaximus]

Drugs,reckless fun, zero regrets 😎😎😎

[@alexxVR46]

Esto rebentaba las orejas en spook barraca puzzle chocola actv y Nod, lo demas son cuentos. ¡Viva la ruta y viva los 82-91!

[@PixieCabanyaler]

En puzzle no recuerdo que se bajasen tanto al lodo los amigos gemelos 😂😂😂, pero sin duda en Barraca, Chocola y Spook, esto te dejaba K.O. Y la actuación en directo en Arena (Alboraia), fué histórica. (La de Chocola no la ví, no creo que hubiese sobrevivido a eso) Nota: a la ruta que le den

[@ThedarkBasshide]

it was the most fun band in all of afterpunk!!! 😀😎

[@debbiesherstobitoff3546]

Great band, memories of dancing in a club here in Vancouver bc Canada with all there great tracks!

[@jamesredcrow157]

Great song for such a great band...Saw them live in Vancouver many many years ago...

[@herveseignez5364]

Connu en 85 et toujours un grand plaisir à écouter

[@martberg4017]

Love the ASF, Cassandra Complex, Bauhaus, Joy Division,...since 35 Years...

[@jorgearnaunebra339]

Joolz- the stand The crams - fly The youn gods- L'amourir Movement newharbours The essence amirage Sisters of mercy Angelic upstars- Solidarity

[@lolyserrano8198]

Me sorprendió cuando los vi..años 80 , explosión de grupos míticos ..,🌟🎼 Y de culto....,👌 en Zaragoza...., ,grandes tiempos ...😎💌👄🔥🎆🎶🎶⏳💜

[@josecarapetomartin9609]

Así fue Loli , grandes tiempos que ojalá volvieran, daría todo lo que tengo por volver a los 80,saludos desde Valencia 🕺💃

[@davethinkingsystems]

Fantastic. I had this on a 12" when it came out. So happy to be able to hear it again. Thanks for posting :-)

[@GothMusicLatinAmerica]

This video is quite relatable right now

[@darcyblack8222]

He do look a bit like a younger Alice Cooper. Great band. Awesome performances and videos.

[@Nephilimfields]

I always thought if Jaz Coleman and Alice had a kid....

[@tsartodd]

LOL he actually reminds me a bit of a gothy Keith Richards.

[@christianschobel8578]

Since 1985 the Machine works & works without holiday (but faster) - its a song of my youth - 1985 or 1983 I´m not safe - i like this Song, it is one of the best of the 80´s whish this time back !!!!!

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

Fond memories discovering ASF 😊

[@michaelcastle6674]

Hells yeah - staple back in the day

[@tonynesbit9673]

Great tune the lead guitar is tops.

[@SteveRes]

This takes me back, awesome track

[@battlestarone]

seen the at rooftops Glasgow and Strathclyde uni in the 80s,,they were loud,,,very loud.

[@slappedhappy9549]

😈Great!Danced my legs off back then!🔊

[@illmsg77]

Such beattiful people

[@robertdebelleme658]

I’m younger again ♥. .

[@pruk66]

Brilliant !

[@johnnyssik]

This is great stuff 🕯️

[@vanessavalentimdacruz284]

totally hypnotic! I fell burning inside

[@micky4112]

What a brillant Song )) love it

[@martirsamy678]

Hola, de los mejores de los 80,Aliens sex, un saludo cordial amigo.

[@adamfindlay7091]

This music some how hit me. The strains of it made it's way into my guitar with a band I played with in 85 calledStrengththruWeakness. I never knew what AsF was about nor their style or lyric -message. Very influential to me. Tho I switched to bass a year later 😊

[@ManuelPelaezRodriguez-dx8yr]

It begin with my favorite Alice Cooper LP, Love it to Death,the song Sun Arise, i'm getting older... but rock'n'roll will never die!

[@truespiderlover]

I'd rather tell my kids about Alien Sex Fiend any day than Skinny Puppy because it's just an easier conversation

[@BirthCopulationAndDeath]

true. they still deserve to know about skippy tho lol

[@truespiderlover]

@@BirthCopulationAndDeath Man I'm gonna feel more ancient than ancient soon enough 😂

[@Punkyfer]

geile sache - habe ich damals in köln gekauft (PICTURE SINGLE 45 rpm)

[@PixieCabanyaler]

Erase una vez, hace mucho mucho tiempo en las zonas más oscuras de Barraca.......... desayuno en Berlin 😁😁😁😁😁

[@ketoking9435]

This stuff ,Rocks

[@user-zn1un6eq5x]

Esto era un cañón, menudo flipe Me quedé sin verlos en Bravata luego Don Julio Valencia

[@neilus]

Love it. Nic Fiend was a great lyricist.

[@michaelhodges5921]

Great tune, and brilliant band, never got to see them, but did enjoy 80's rebellion, only thing we could do, fuck the system

[@sydmonteiro6189]

Great Band!

[@FrederickMazza-yl8si]

I saw this band live in Boston at the Middle East I didn't know what to expect I usually listen to hardcore but it was pretty good

[@hullischnulli8866]

Danke,einstieg inne andere Dimension...

[@Attack126]

Alien Sex Fiend grupo que escuche con 17 años, igual me daba escuchar punk que música algo gótica o dark. Acabé comprando un vinilo de ellos junto a otro de Desechables grupo Psicobilly español de Barcelona 😎😎

[@klauskinski5108]

Hot Man! 💥🔥👍

[@joserodrigues-vq8pz]

Sun arise come every morning Sun arise come every morning Bringing back the warmth to the ground! I live in Siberia, Through no fault of my own We're a blank generation In the danger zone Paracidal slumbers from 7 to 23... Only the blind follow me Abyssinia... in the morning Breakfast... in Berlin Oh! You leave me dying... 'Cause everybody wants what everybody's got And everybody's got what everybody wants Soldier lies bleeding where a church once stood Ignore the machine! Ignore the machine! Couldn't get to sleep this morning I watched the sky I couldn't see There weren't no warning I watched you burn last night! 'Cause everybody's got what everybody wants Everybody wants what everybody's got Soldier lies bleeding where a church once stood Ignore the ma-a-a-a-achine! Ignore! Everybody wants what everybody's got And everybody's got what everybody needs Soldier lies bleeding Oh, you leave me dying! Everybody's got what everybody wants Everybody wants what everybody's got Everybody wants what everybody's got And everybody needs!

[@sofitischler]

Esto es excelente, por donde lo veas

[@ViciousMaximus]

y tú también

[@Rattadazong]

Greeting from a bona find fiend fan!

[@marcelorosamelo7537]

Es una catarse esta canción

[@Hulker69]

Any grebbo's delight - Alien Sex Fiend, Sigue Sigue Sputnik and The Wonderstuff - good times blahhhhhhh

[@MonstersMaster]

My girlfriend did me a tape of this song in 1988. Miss her ...

[@Eternalluxx]

❤❤❤

[@roseberstein863]

Eeeeeaaarrgaams😍

[@chaoswitch1974]

Cool video

[@peterterras1138]

1st 11inch single ... est (trip to the moon).

[@vilhenahc6345]

Muito Bom!

[@invertedcrown]

he looks like that MOMO creepypasta..... dig the music tho!!

[@aaronsaunders6974]

Rocking out 🎵 Everybody got what everybody want

[@LoneKharnivore]

Holy fuck yes. The YT algorithm wins again.

[@indienriver1]

Ich liebe alien sex fiend seit 1986

[@user-hv5uy7ct6g]

`super :)

[@antonvandenheever3150]

Nick and gang are the best! No wokeness! My fav band!

[@user-ve9kn5mp1l]

今聞いてもぶっ飛んどるわ😅

[@vapourtrail7194]

I want...to ignore the machine...but i left that shite behind waaaayyyyyy looonnnng time ago. i had to wise uuuupppp! i was born of Greasers that transformed into hippies to bear me a consumer of the 80's. his words gone on a silent whisper to be heard no more .

[@whitlowjohnonly1_2]

A Rush fan are we. That's alright. Me too, since I was 10 / 1979 Permanent Waves era. Now, some of come Rush via some route or other. For me, it was in reverse. I found this shite in my mid-teens, about the time it came out. I'm 51 years old and have seen both bands live a few times: Rush/ 3 ; asf/ twice. Many years ago. Both groups standout on their own merits as do the musicians who perform on them. So why shit on your youth by tossing that shite out? You can enjoy both with a different perspective? I kind of lean towards the idea that when artists record an album it stands as a document of that time. Sure it gets boring occasionally; however, I can never seem to locate the expiration date of the e.p. this bore from. No recording does. Enjoy it for it was/is. Bummer about losung Neil 'The Proffessor' Peart. He's the reason I started banging on shit until it sounded good. Got a hodge podge tama kit joined a couple of local Hard Core punk groups. Had good chops. Sweet fills. Could never accomplish the Peart cymbal triplet patterns. But fuck all I tried. And it sounded pretty good.

[@Invading-Specious]

What is a better way to say feel better soon?

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

💫🎶✨👽✨🎶💫

[@Scunner23]

Fair enough...

[@roynightingale5100]

RIP FOZZY ❤

[@neil__metcalf__officiaI]

This has LSD written all over it

[@RogerBentley-be3mr]

and Last years Wife . And then the original Suspiria film

[@priscillageluk4611]

Jeugd sentiment ❤

[@user-nb9nl8qf4n]

ΣΤΗΝ ΛΕΦΚΗ ΜΕ ΑΓΑΠΗ Ο ΑΛΕΚΟΣ 23/09/1991 13:12❤

[@rabit818]

Robert Smith v Nik for best make up?

[@karenburman1]

2022 😎👍

[@tweakradje]

Are we still here?

[@TiernanSongs]

Sure. It's a good place to be.

[@PixieCabanyaler]

Once upon a time, a long long time ago in the darkest parts of Barraca..........breakfast in Berlin 😬

[@eddielouvers4882]

Your t-shirt sucks!!

[@RogerBentley-be3mr]

if you really like this you should listen to All Cats Are Grey by The Cure

[@baranhazer6917]

Çok iyi be 👍👍👽👽

[@DaleRogers-kv7vs]

fab,i am to ask mummy or god to take this with me when e leaves this mortal; coil...

[@rocknroller2980]

Only dead fish follow the stream

[@garyng2608]

back to 80, club voodoo In Toronto WTF🇭🇰

[@pakoantikuary]

😁🤘👌👍👍👍

[@Ben-nx7yy]

WHAT IS THIS SONG ABOUT?????

[@QuadMochaMatti]

It's a song in the key of life.

[@starvingbuddha7622]

Read Nova Express by William S Burroughs. It is about clip-clap

[@starvingbuddha7622]

@Pete Testube Burroughs describes clip-clap in the book

[@zetetick395]

@@starvingbuddha7622 Also the Orgasm Death Gimmick, which is a critical component

[@klauskinski5108]

Yes i ignore now 😉👍

[@tabacash]

My prefered ........

[@danielscissorhands]

You don't have to be able to sing in tune to be cool.

[@mariagabriellasenatore868]

Try.😊😊

[@bigpuma444]

Nik Fiend, the Mr Hyde to Monkeys (The Adicts) Dr Jekyll

[@peterterras1138]

Remember seeing them live , they had 2 lesbians dancing and getting off ... Preston... clouds

[@cor2250]

🖤🔥✊

[@sinnlostv5584]

talent free