FIRST TIME HEARING Propaganda - p:Machinery | REACTION | OMG!!!

[@stevejh2760]

One of the best singles of the 80's criminally underrated. Enjoyed your reaction.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

💯 agreed 👍 😊

[@fabriziopicci2853]

@@stevejh2760 it's true!

[@rickwhear4016]

@@wietholdtbuhl6168 iykyk

[@patrick3926]

Agreed 🎉

[@gpecurto]

This and "Duel", a classic!

[@void1968able]

When Claudia starts singing "In joyless lanes we walk in line..." in that warm, tempting, embracing, a bit gutteral and frigthening and very complex voice (and she was just a merely 20 year old girl fresh out of german "Gymansium") all memories are back and I admit I have to shed a tear or two for all the days gone as there is "Kein Zurück für dich!" (Dr. Mabuse). Damn, I had a crush on her and still her looks, expression and voice mesmerize me. BTW loved your reaction. Some background to understand that IMHO very matching video. Dörper wanted to write a song about past german movie milestones like "Dr. Mabuse" and "Metropolis". P(ropaganda)-Machinery is about "Metropolis". In short: a moloch city is devided into the upper town (rich people) and the under town (in fact below earth). Easy to guess: the under town people has to work for the upper town people / class, which lives in luxury whereas the poor people just work as soulless creatures in ever repeating and stupid work schemes and are kind of savoured by the machines they work on / for. So... the three (Dörper, Mertens, Freytag) guys in business suits on strings are the modern (80's) version of this workforce. Remember chinese "ant suits" during Mao time, it's simply an uniform and destinction for lower class worker, just existing for the upper class' luxury. They walk "endlessly", joyless, a calm (no riots, no feelings, no emotions) and steady, never running dry of new workers till the strength of the individual runs low. Brücken in her white dress reflects the upper class, the next generation, the "Club of Sons". She lukewarmly brushes "her workers" as if she cares for them. Her dress (the feathery balls on both sides of her shoulders match perfect her haircut!) is the bridge to the roaring 20's, and she's presenting luxury goods, and with the sweetest but fake smile she got she reveals the obscured, deadly snake (there's no friendship in the upper class, despite they feast in luxury they are still grudging each other). I don't know if she was told to smile that way and performs acting or if that's her natural smile, remember, she was an unexperienced young girl. While she enjoys hunting butterflies and carelessly rolling around in her bed the working class - still stringed to the "machine" - provides her with everything she needs, she even picks their flower without even wasting a thought, perhaps even ignoring and destroying their hardly existing emotions ("picking the flower", a german allegory for you-know-what). She's wasting the champagne, she could have shared a tiny part of her luxury with the workers, but... better waste than share with these scumbacks, oopsie! "What common sense denies"... the upper class is going even further, harnessing a human to a horse, why? Because they can. Because perversities don't gross them out anymore. In the end the puppeteers are shown, the guys that are controlling everything, even the butterflies the upper class enjoys. Who is there, on top? So, look up, be aware of who and what is controlling you, know that you are nothing but a slave, recognizing your chains is the first step to freedom! Don't trust propaganda (the swinging puppets with the books), break free by... cutting the lines. The final take of Claudia *snip*. Claudia's role may be that of Metropolit Freder, an upper town son conneting to the under town Maria who wanted to break through the lies and seek for truth. I don't recall the movie exactly but I think there was no liberation of the masses, so the final "cut the line" did not happen. The lulling melody, the lyrics and the video match. As the quartett grew up around Ratinger Straße / Ratinger Hof, the bohemian side of Düsseldorf and Claudia told in an interview they had lots of connections to the art scene I think it's fair to assume there's something behind that video! That video, that music and the lyrics are very prevailing. I don't remember an 80's song that made it good through to today without a single wrinkle, not even a crow's feet. Sidenote: both girls aged almost as well!

[@MrErCojone]

Maybe talk talk it's my life aged same way

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

I'm so excited you found propaganda..whole album excellent!!!!

[@fabian-g9i]

I agree

[@rcmorl6390]

It was always the whole album.... drop the needle flip..and to the end..and maybe again... trevor horn at his best

[@greigmartin9148]

A Secret Wish is an absolutely superb album, one of the best of the 1980s.

[@SamFey]

How to leave an American speechless. Spine tingling song. This guy's face says it all.

[@JCWiley2300]

A Secret Wish is one of the greatest albums of the 80s. LEGENDARY. The UK press referred to Propaganda as "ABBA in hell."

[@rcasalscano]

Excelente Comentario 😂😂😂 Los ABBA infernales

[@LiveMusicOntario]

That's an excellent analogy. What I like about A Secret Wish is the German "edginess" it has. An undertone of it's OK to not be happy runs through everything. 1234 is sonically good too though a 180 degree turn from A Secret Wish. I keep hearing the 1234 vocals like they got Olivia Newton John to sing. I mean very good emotions, but nice. Who the hell want's that? LOL.

[@monicadesanti7466]

"Duel" Is another great one

[@patrick3926]

My favorite 🎉

[@Daretoshi66]

The Best!!

[@ScrotusXL]

Trevor Horn plus the Geeermans = pure genius 😅

[@jerrycote659]

🤣 Couldn’t stop cracking up seeing your expressions to the video which is close to 40 years old and still looks futuristic. I remember the first time seeing this video I was tripped out when the part with the dancing red chair came up 😮 Still trips me out even though I’ve seen the video many times. The song is also an epic synthpop masterpiece with production values that blow away anything put up against it from present day music. Along with Kraftwerk this is an excellent example of German technical prowess in regard to studio production and innovation.

[@swedishsackpipabymarczumsa1435]

Man kann ihm richtig ansehen, dass da musikalisch gerade was ganz Großes passiert ❤

[@Dean-hk1kf]

I'm born in Düsseldorf and in 1984 I was 18...This song at this time was unbelievable! We never hear something like this before. And in Düsseldorf we have "Kraftwerk". Maybe react one of your greatest songs "Model" 😉😉 But in this year, for me the best year of music, there are a lot of smashing hits 😉

[@febbrenelcuore]

“A Secret Wish” is a masterpiece ❤

[@HeavystuffSweden]

That!

[@MarijeEssink]

Yes!

[@1963Victory]

Absolutely

[@stevejh2760]

The 12" extended versions are amazing too.

[@ohfour-seven6228]

you're right, the 12" was awesome!

[@Lyraxhaze]

One of my favorit 12" of 80s.. ❤❤❤❤

[@walterverbeeck6929]

Almost all bands and artists had 12" extended versions of their singles. In Europe 12" extended versions were immense popular in the 80s.

[@umbrellacorp.1037]

Polish Mix

[@sasapejcin3568]

80s synth industrial master-piece!

[@davidmorgan1408]

I'm so excited! This is one of my favorite bands, and I love this song!

[@Centaur81]

I always loved Claudia's costume in that video. This is so 'high class' and so typical in 80's music videos. What a great time it was ...

[@aslem.johansen1806]

A piece of art from the eighties

[@sweetwilly]

Welcome to 80s dance floor.

[@jeanpeuxplus7257]

Can't believe it peaked only at 26 in Germany! It was a bigger hit here in France. Such a song, and that video with these string puppets Loved it at the time, still love it today!

[@williamcreel1316]

Yeah, I asked my older German friend about it and he never heard of the band.

[@817mikeyh]

One of the most underrated bands of the eighties. Duel, Dr Mabuse, absolute bangers

[@marybloomfield2646]

A Secret Wish is a superb album. Welcome to my 80s.

[@Mr19690929]

Et dire qu a l'époque tu pouvais faire tout un album dans une cave ou un garage. Quel liberté musicale 😊😊😊 La new wave allemande n avait rien a envier au reste du monde . Merci d avoir vécu les années 80 comme un super ado 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@oscarbarrios5868]

one of the most epic song of the 80's. i was there, younger. it's always a pleasure to ear it again and again and again...

[@ohfour-seven6228]

This was a HUGE hit in the alternative dance clubs. So many great songs at that time, the clubs were a great place to let loose on the dance floor. Another group with a similar sensibility was Yello. Definitely check out their song, Oh Yeah.

[@mayabairey]

Euro synth is a rich, rich field. Would love to see more!

[@olivierf9563]

"Choked and Speechless". This video is the best tribute to Propaganda.

[@mcolford]

Greta job Carson! That was coming up in my list to send as a request in the next couple of months, but glad you got it in. Amazing song, huh? Duel is pretty awesome as well... much more pop oriented, but also amazing. The whole album is fantastic.

[@rayhernandez-duran8360]

I listened to this album nonstop in summer 1986. Iconic

[@Mirabellism]

I remember when this song was played in my favorite club in Germany back then in the 80s. Just epic 🎉

[@manumenorca1785]

... you got it... and I'm happy you understand it, thanks... One of my very bests of my age...

[@toniboydston2744]

Salvo you would of loved the 80’s it was so much fun. Take me back. ❤love from Australia 🇦🇺

[@richardmtl]

Kept us on the dance floor for years!

[@CirTap]

Trever Horn ! GOAT producer of the '80ies and the various 12'' extended versions - plural! - of each of their songs were bombastic and are indeed _extended versions_ /+10 mins ZTT also had Frankie Goes To Hollywood, also produced by Trevor Horn.

[@priscaperani603]

I was 11 when it came out, it was a huge hit in my country (France). I remember buying the record and playing it 10 times in a row every time. It still is one of my favs from that period, I'm glad you enjoyed it

[@Ananke05]

I love the way you react ! Among my 30 international favourite songs, ultime masterpiece. In France, this song has been a tremendous success. The french FM Radio Skyrock "stole" two important pieces of this song to make their jingle and gimick. Long life to that german Band, we are fond of you for ever...

[@deeno8]

Fantastic song.🙏

[@DrRotwang]

The first time I heard this song was in 1985, on Mexico City's 97.7 FM - Radio Hits. I was 10½, and it gave me goosebumps. I listened to it just now, aged 49, on your KZbin channel...and it gave me goosebumps. Fot this song, not a day has passed.

[@DvD21mIL]

Radioactivo 96.9 & 98.5 eran mis estaciones favorita 😅

[@fabriziopicci2853]

WoOOOoW!!!❤❤❤ Amazing!

[@PabloGarcia-sf7bn]

You can never unhear them! The look on your face when Claudia’s voice hit told all. Greetings from New Mexico!

[@rcasalscano]

From Spain ❤❤❤❤ Soy de la generación del 73 y en España esto sonaba a algo extraterrestre. A Encuentros en la tercera Fase. Con esas melodías futuristas y el éxtasis posterior era demasiado. Una era irrepetible con la Human League, Depeche Mode y tantos grupos que hicieron de la década de los 80’s la más prolífica de la historia de la música moderna. Al menos para mí. It’s a brutal. Un saludo.

[@jsr7691]

Yo tenía 18 años cuando la escuché por primera vez en la bola de cristal y me impactó tanto este tema que para mi era el mejor del mundo

[@rcasalscano]

@ …que tiene esta bola que a todo el mundo le molaaa !!! . Te sientas enfrente es como el cine… todo lo controla es un alucine… es como un ordenador personal … es La Bola De Cristaaaal !!! Buaaah

[@jsr7691]

@@rcasalscano recuerdo que fue en una sección que hacía Javier Gurruchaga, aquel día un especial sobre Alemania ... también aparecía Nina Hagen ...

[@Ingwersignition]

This Song was used in a Miami Vice Episode too. Great stuff

[@RobotoMA]

The song is currently celebrating a comeback in Germany because it is used in a car advertisement.

[@johnfrancis1925]

Trevor Horn knew how to produce TF out of a New Wave tune in that era. I actually got to see Propaganda live at the 9:30 Club in DC with Derek Forbes from Simple Minds on Bass. They sounded as good as the recordings. It was unreal. "A Secret Wish" is my #2 Album from 1985 and the layers upon layers of Fairlight CMI sampled orchestrations are some of the best arrangements of that era.

[@johnthewiz]

OOOOfff. I havn't heard that for decades! Blimey. Brilliant. I hope you heard Fade to Grey cos that's the opposite of the 80's spectrum. I grew of age to this stuff.

[@juhamo]

The soundscape sounds newer than 1985 because everything was played with a Fairlight CMI III, literally the forerunner of synthesizer samplers at the price of the house.

[@txxredtache]

One of THE dance hits of the '80s. Dominated the British club scene for years. Check out the 10m45s Beta mix.

[@ronsandahl274]

From the mid-80's when I first heard this it has been one of my favorite songs, and the video is one of my favorites. That whole album is fantastic and you should give it a lsiten. Two standouts are the Murder of Love, and Dr. Mabuse - both are great. Funny thing about the video, back in the 80's i9t was hard seeing videos especially for German avant garde sythpop bands, but there was a place in Seattle at the time that had a New Wave Video night and a friend told me it was one of the videos that they ran. My friend and I tried for months to go, but we kept getting the nights wrong. We hit Rastafarian night, we hit lesbian night - twice, but we never actually got to New Wave Video night.

[@debrah2782]

Love Propaganda. Listened to them as a teen in the 80's. Glad you found them.

[@spawn4582]

With a full reaction! 😁 Thank you!👍 Laughed!😂

[@ExplorHits]

Such 80s classic

[@AndrewSmith-mc3yu]

A Secret Wish Absolutely awesome album, needs listening completely in its entirety without any interruptions. ZTT were a brilliant record label - Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Art of Noise and Hoodlum Priest definitely need to heard. Mind blowing stuff.

[@IsabelleRSG]

My favorite new wave / synth song for sure! Propaganda didn't last very long but they made an impact for many who loved the genre. This song was huge and all over radios in many European countries. I remember it even though I was still young when it was relased. The video is amazing too and still looks perfect. It could have been released this year and nobody would know. I did enjoy your amazement watchign and hearing this song. Vocals by the lovely Claudia Brücken, I always loved her tone and her looks! I'm glad someone made you discover this band.

[@preciousroy7]

Only had this on a mixtape, so happy to see it get attention here! ❤

[@alanmedcalf8491]

Totally agree with you, way ahead of their time , this was used just recently for electric car ad and i recognised the artist straight away, brilliant track , thanks for your reaction.💯👍

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

Another German band I love..Donna Regina

[@rondegroot1508]

Genius!

[@bobbygempton5669]

I bought this album, A Secret Wish, when it came out - still listening to it 40 years later on CD. One of my all time top 10 albums. Amazing. ❤

[@RENegadeMaster77]

The audio quality is a lot better on the version you used as opposed to the one on here,love Propaganda,glad you liked it,expertly produced by the genius that is Trevor Horn along with Stephen Lipson.

[@stephendennis5911]

I bought the cd when officially released and loved every song on the cd

[@leroyrs]

Just amazing. No more words needed...

[@sedybaby]

This song still breathtaking 39 years after! I had the 45T i was 13/14 😍😍😍

[@crazy-diamond7683]

This song was light years ahead of it's time! It's more popular now than at the time it was released.

[@MrHoefnix]

Trevor Horn’s signature modernist 1980s sound😍

[@navem1838]

Yes That was the Best time for music ❤

[@Lichtzauberfoto]

This song always worked perfectly on the dance floor. Nice memories ...

[@peternilsson7133]

I love this song and "Duel" is so good too. Both were huge on the dance floors in the US .

[@CaptainDangeax]

When I was in high school in France, it was aired on radio once every hour

[@stateofmontana2247]

Yes yes yes 😅best german band ever

[@jak1962100]

Definitely one of my favorite tracks ❤

[@ash_durant6071]

One of my favourite albums of the 80's. The production on this album is amazing, and the people who where involved tells enough ;-)

[@frankcatweazle3611]

You can hear Trevor Horn in this production. Awesome!

[@davidglen110]

you have to listen to the album it's from A secret wish,it's brilliant.

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

Heaven17..the luxury gap

[@paulf2557]

Check out Glenn Gregory and Claudia Brucken duetting together at a 2011 show. Some Heaven 17 tracks and Propaganda tracks. Just wonderful.

[@njg247]

Yessss. Heaven 17 Temptation- absolute masterpiece.

[@paulf2557]

@@njg247 kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaSTd3RonZ2LaJo

[@HairyMart]

😊 Old enough that I purchased the 12" version of this Dr Mabuese, and of course Duel. Shame never got to see them live. Still a friend made an excellent suggestion - pop on the headphones, start the record player, and turn off the lights, and let the experience wash over you

[@22Phantasm]

Their first album, A Secret Wish, is perfection from start to finish. It's epic and melodic and beautiful. The single, Duel has a B-side called Jewel... great play on words.

[@binkytube]

One of my favourite albums at that time!

[@paulf2557]

Someone else mentions the song "Dream Within A Dream". A totally magical song, and when I saw them do it live in 2011 it was just mind blowing.

[@billg5428]

It's a good album. Imagine being a DJ in the 80's like I was and listening to more stuff like this. Was at these neat record stores almost every week getting promos.

[@ShmitsuShushin]

Music then was really really good then, full of emotions, melodic line was full of sounds perfectly arranged in sequences. It was a MASSIVE JOY to listen.

[@lgh2052]

One of my all time favourite albums, love Propaganda!

[@hughzarie1860]

Bought A Secret Wish when it came out in 1985 and never stopped playing it since. My favourite album of all time.

[@ShmitsuShushin]

There was plenty of remixes (still looking for one very specific version but I'm unable to locate ... ;( I think it was "Duel" but song started with percussion only. Got shivers when trying to play this music in my mind .....

[@WayneCoston-kj1go]

The whole album is a masterpiece, particularly Duel and Sorry for Laughing. The p:Machinery (p:Polish) version on the Deluxe CD is truly epic.

[@investigasteve]

Dr. Mabuse referred on movies of Fritz Lang in the 20s and 30s that painted a prediction of the upcoming fascists. The Nazis forbid it and Fritz Lang migrated to Beverly Hills. However it's been the time of 1984 and else and they took up that dystrophic picture and packed it into music.

[@muscleboypa]

That's the reaction I like ...... staple for Us club goers, back in the day! WE ..... danced to this, at BIG CITY industrial club in York, PA. This IS machinery AT .... it's BEST! The Tech sound, off the charts ...... powerful, imaginary, industrial, ..... revolutionary in it's time ..... Claudia Brücken (lead singer) so captivating!

[@uweeckert8284]

imho one of the best singles ever, still my no 1 over all this years.

[@NoConceptofTheft]

Your the man, you understand

[@joecveteticccvetetic4068]

I'm so impressed with your taste...

[@mariusmarius5964]

Muzica generației mele muzica pe care am avut-o și pe care dansam in discoteci. Câți din ziua de azi își dau seama la ce nivel epic de muzică am fost noi expuși în decada de aur a anilor '80 ? Cu drag din Romania

[@thisworldofwater8017]

Salvo, unbelievably the whole album is (almost) as good. What I really mean: miraculous.

[@sagan1976]

Trevor Horn produced another one of the gems of the 80's. Grace Jones' Slave to the Rhythm.

[@ange5673]

For me, Duel is my favourite of Propganda. ❤

[@johnwalker3139]

You have to listen to the Beta Wraparound mix of this - sublime!

[@oskarobit]

Depeche Mode and other European bands switched their sound to a colder and more industrial sound in the first half of the 80s. I had that vinyl record and it inspired me to develop an art project in my studies. I played "Dr. Mabuse" during my Master of Arts and Design training. BTW, on Wikipedia they readily give the label "Synth-pop" and "New Wave" to any song from the eighties.... Maybe it's suitable for songs like "Duel", beautiful and great song, on the same album but I would label "p.Machinery" as electronic pop with strokes of industrial music.

[@H.Courtois]

the P4F remix is ​​awesome too. (a medley remix of propaganda "P.machinery" with the title "relax" by frankie goes to hollywood)

[@Chatharina]

Love that song. I bought that album in 1985 and it always had that WOW effect on me. When i hear it today, i still have that WOW feeling, and keeping that alive for 40 years is proof how good it is. It is bombast pop, which was cool for a short time span in the 80s, and this song is one of the best of them, together with Welome to the pleasuredome from FGTH. For p:machinery you find countless remixes on youtube, and every one of them is good. Its like whatever you mix this song with, it always gets better. There was a successful remix between Relax from FGTH and p:machinery released some years later, its equally good. "P:machinery relax medley from Propaganda for Frankie". The only other song which has still this futuristic sound for me after 40 years is "Being boiled" from the Human League. It is even older, from the late seventies, and it still sounds like future to me.

[@RealityVonTrapp]

Duel!! the best!!

[@JohnPaul-hm2ys]

This was one of my favorites during my Masters and Doctoral studies. This was perfect for chaotic rest periods for my home between study and work. My housemate was dating a DJ, so we were never short on great music - which took our minds elsewhere. Propaganda still evokes a devil may care sense of whimsy in me, even in my retirement.

[@silverbrahmapaolino9528]

Absolutely superpowerful!

[@chezraymond]

Toute ma jeunesse !

[@jenswernecken4454]

I re-found it on a TDK MC... Still ❤ it. I recommend listening to something completely different but also ❤ The Rainbirds - Blueprint. That voice ❤❤

[@hindsighter]

Your reaction is very close to what many of us felt when we first heard this masterpiece in 1985. It's entrancing.