Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! Sucker (Video)

[@lancefoley4687]

if I can hear this song 28 years after it was released and still think it's awesome I guess it must truly be

[@robertmetzger1753]

You Rootin Tootin !! LOL Class of 81/82 !!!

[@jeannesmith908]

100% agree!! How did I miss this?? At least I know now, thank goodness!

[@rondohunter8966]

Wise One, you speak truth.

[@seansverige]

My favourite band at their time, criminally overlooked & consequently more obscure now than they deserve. If you like this you need to check out the rest of the album (esp. Wake Up! Time to Die - one the best songs about alcohol abuse ever), would also single out Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - but it's all good PS the guy singing (Clint Mansell) is now an award winning composer in Hollywood...

[@renehaagsma6107]

1989!!!

[@MiniLemmy]

Not many bands that could simultaneously appeal to indie rockers and dance hipsters back in the day! Love their uniqueness

[@ConfusionInc]

If you would have told me Clint would go on to be one of the most celebrated modern film composers of my life time, back during this era, I would have laughed at you. Love ya Clinty!

[@tex6815]

He does a lot of stuff with Biffy Clryo as well.

[@yan4524]

Remember standing in the Talbot bar in Stourbridge with him and a mate, the night before he flew over to New York. Doesn't seem to have done to bad, since then. Lol

[@isabeltaylor-clark479]

Is he really? That's great to know. I met him and the gang particularly Graham the mad head back in the mid 90's when I was under the spell of a certain lady from we've got a Fuzzbox n we're gonna use it" I was her young pup. God embarrassing how ass kiss I was with her and I'd say being ever keen to please and starstruck I was certainly taken advantage of but I throughly enjoyed it and I learnt many lessons and had a great time.

[@psychedelicfright85]

He's done some good movies, and some tacky ones. My favorite is still Requiem for a Dream. He captured the mood perfectly.

[@Dunskaroo]

Isabel Taylor-Clark Met Clint at a rave in New Orleans. He was the only dude there spinning CDs. His expression when I said I was a fan of his old PWEI stuff was priceless.

[@leggdad1]

This has got to be one of my favourite songs - ever. It's an amazing mish-mash of angry sound, based around an amazing riff, whilst the lyrics are beautifully self critical. I was a massive fan and was lucky to see them many times. I admit that I've always thought the the legend "Wise up! Sucker" should be the title on my epitaph.

[@infidelcastro5129]

Interviewer: “So Clint, which musical genre are you going to take to the next level?” Clint: “Yes”

[@SuperCirclejerks]

I love this comment

[@prpwnage9296]

how original

[@Wil_Dsense]

Wow must have took you ages to think of that. Generic comments are what bands like PWEI oppose… lmao

[@infidelcastro5129]

@@Wil_Dsense You posted that in the voice of Rick from The Young Ones, didn’t you 😂

[@Wil_Dsense]

@@infidelcastro5129 Indeed Pal. Now I must get out of this place, It’s terribly boring!

[@elrond3447]

OMG! I used to mosh to this way back in 89. At the only club in my area that played this kind of music. Wow, I miss those days.

[@michaelarmata]

...what's been lost is how different this tune was for the times and how deep its influence ripped through the genre and changed everything

[@Kate11Rushworth]

my husband's first gig when he was 15!! He still loves them at 38!!

[@rudy6884]

Was a nurses aide in an OR when this came out. I'd be there cleaning up blood and other internal stuff after a surgery playing this loud and on repeat. The sounds bouncing off the tile walls. Kinda fun.

[@waynestatham5649]

Never tire of this ,not even after all these years

[@shaneoconnor5319]

Just hanging out with old school mates this weekend....yesterday we all broke into song... poppys tunes.... ugly, beaver patrol, wise up, candy and of course def con..... five dudes that are now in our forties.....we all remembered the lyrics....awesome bonding experience with pwei as the glue.....not now life were busy!

[@bobharrison4711]

Awesome.... by the bucket-load. I'm hoping for a Poppies gig soon🤞

[@embodie_breaks7089]

I just found out this was Clint... Holy.. My Cousin suggested this song, but I know Clint's work from the Requiem from a Dream soundtrack which is one of my all-time favorite movies as far as color pallets, actors, video editing, and audio. I know everyone knows him for that one song in the movie, but as a sound designer, producer, dj, or whatever I am.. I am more intrigued by all the other songs on that soundtrack, but then again... I am also a big fan of Skinny Puppy.. lol. Great work. Much Respect Clint. Thanks for all the great music. Much Appreciated!

[@gohmann9631]

I found them accidentally. Now PWEI is one of my favorite bands.

[@valeriokurs]

Me too !

[@RobotSuperstar]

Fuck yeahhhh!!!

[@theantipope4354]

They were insanely good live.

[@vyruss000]

Freaking amazingly awesome. How ahead of its time was this!! Kudos to PWEI!!!

[@bernestherring2865]

Still awesome after 25 years!@

[@greatestytcommentator]

35

[@PaxtonRavenscroft]

I forgot how much I love PWEI until I started listening to them again a few days ago. I love PWEI!

[@Walter370z]

Classic! I used to hear this and Ich Bin Ein Auslander all the time at Rock clubs in Toronto in the early to late 00s. Great songs such underated band.

[@onceuponatimeintoronto891]

Too bad you weren't around in the early 90s, you missed out on Lizard Lounge, RPM, Sanctuary, Catch 22 which was the best small club in T.O till 97 when it closed, and a whole handfuls of other spots that were nuts, Whisky Saigon and Limelight on Sunday nights! The good old days when you would hit clubs on thurs, fri, sat and sun night, nothing else to do back then and we always spent our paychecks b4 monday lol.

[@danknfrshtv]

Good to know this stuff was still knockin around the clubs then. I was on this scene hard in the 90s. Miss it.

[@mamefydyshyn7257]

@@onceuponatimeintoronto891 80s had great clubs. Silver Crown, Domino's, Nuts and Bolts Rivoli Horseshoe. 90s was just as good. One club that still exists Velvet Underground

[@onceuponatimeintoronto891]

@@mamefydyshyn7257 was there for all that in the late 80s too! Cotton Club, Diamond, Club Z, Twilight Zone, Betty Ford, Rockit, RPM before Government, Fresh before RPM, the good old days lol. And yeah, I heard Velvet is still open, but the guys who owned Catch 22 and V.U sold it a few yrs back. I'm sure Cosmo and Paul and Andy are long gone from the door too lol. Good old Queen St W. Oh yeah Bovine and the small place that was across the street for a few yrs as well were rockin on Thurs nights, met Natalie Richard from Much Music there one night and my friends were pissed that I didn't recognize her and we talked all night smoking Camels plains and Heineken yapping away while they stewed.

[@mamefydyshyn7257]

@@onceuponatimeintoronto891 wow, you went to the Cotton Club, I forgot about that club. I went there often. RPM, The Government. So much fun. Enjoyed the music, dancing and 🍸. What a blast!

[@chynawyatt4068]

This is one of those bands that I will NEVER apologize for liking!! I like it and if you don't, that's just TOO BAD!!!

[@MarkAltosaar]

If you don't like the Poppies that's your hard luck.

[@TronForlox]

@@MarkAltosaarlike a 10 ton truck don’t give a fuck

[@mikejarrett3297]

Loved this band, carter usm and senser, my brother was 2 years older and i stole his tapes and took em to school everyone else was into wet,wet,wet and bryan adams, i felt so cool.

[@isabeltaylor-clark479]

Same here Mike. Well I got mine from my mom's friends daughter who was older, I looked up to her she was so cool in my eyes had total girl crush on her she'd copy tapes for me and I'd be cool at school n like you say other kids had no clue, I introduced my friends to the scene but I was the guru due to my older cool as fuck friend. I think she liked that she was educating me in decent music non mainstream and I thank her for it.

[@Canadiana71]

Favourite song. Hands down.

[@danknfrshtv]

Anyone here under 40? lol. But seriously... What a fkn sweet moment in music this band was.

[@stephopalopal]

Love this band& the people in it..Send ya love from New Orleans Louisiana peace & Music ☆♡☆OpaL

[@scottmcewan6951]

Opal from New Orleans ? are you opal enthroned ? the voice that made landing on the mountains of meggido the song I want played at my funeral? if so I just want to say I'm a big fan I loved southern isolation.

[@waywardsonsk1]

TIL that the lead singer is my favorite movie score composer!!!🤯

[@NovemberDeltaVictor]

Still my favorite song ever. It's everything I want in a song and then some. AND it's nostalgic.

[@boarias6794]

Great song. Heard at limelight 1997.

[@Run_With_The_Kittens]

this song sealed the deal...I was hooked

[@hatwebebook1064]

The Splendid PWEI Song Classics

[@trebuchetgunt2432]

They had videos?! I paid large sums for imports of these guys in high school. Still as good as it ever was.

[@rsvp9146]

Same here. Was hard to find the albums in America.

[@brianoneil9662]

120 Minutes on MTV played their video. For the 2-3 years where MTV played videos still in the late 80s

[@Audunforgard]

Same here, living in the deep mountain area of souther norway, getting hold of records was never easy at the best of days. But eventually we found some catalogues that had PWEI in stock, so ticked of anything I could afford at the time. Poppies 4 Life!

[@Mike-ix5sv]

I was able to buy cd's of this the day.., cure for sanity, looks or the lifestyle and dos de dos from music stores in Canada around 1996ish.

[@PWEIcom]

​@@rsvp9146we could hire the tape cassettes out at the small local library in Totton Southampton England. That's how I got my first listen to Looks Or The Lifestyle. I think it was because the librarian was a goth but I'm not sure.... It could also have been because of the POP

[@donnaly5146]

I love this after so many years still ❤

[@fragster2008]

I remember this band well.. used to dance like a loon them all the time back in day. This was my favourite song.

[@deathmetal11111]

This definitely has a Head Like A Hole vibe to this. British style.

[@Rushm0r309]

so true! Both songs (or albums) were produced by Flood and were released 1989 too, so that could had something to do with it.

[@greatestytcommentator]

i'm having a serious flashback right now

[@juanpablojones]

Ah, the late 80s Indie grebo scene. Proper youth culture back in the day

[@jeffreystrathearn5082]

God I miss the 90s.

[@michaeltacoronte]

What music today sounds like this? I miss this and we need more around!

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

Korn Korn has the same formula but metal.

[@Vb98765]

​@@anothersettlementneedsyour9628not really

[@PWEIcom]

​@@Vb98765not at all. No just No

[@oliverhogg8553]

Saw these guys play tonight in my town. Still good after all this time

[@904PinballZine]

Epic Lonely Boy Anthem.

[@dissectingdexter2186]

I remember driving round Deal with a school mate in his old brown Mini with this blasting out of the window! Good times ha!

[@anonymousanonymous5327]

If we stand here shaking much more We're gonna come apart, split in half, You're telling me don't want no more 'Cos my head's up my ass, I watch my world through a glass, I'm just a crazy tired shape from your past You say it's love that you need, But it's war that you've got That you want to live your life and "to have" Not "to have not, " Better wise up and face my lot; She loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not Wise up sucker to what you've got I'm freakin' and you couldn't care less, I got the deep down crazies; Trying to get my head round this mess. At the sound of the bell An act you know so well, You give me sixteen different flavours of hell You say it's love that you need, But it's war that you've got That you want to live your life and "to have" Not "to have not, " Better wise up and face my lot; She loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not Wise up sucker to what you've got Wise up! sucker, see the sights Taking your ass for a ride, Wise up! Wise up! You say it's love that you need, But it's war that you've got That you want to live your life and "to have" Not "to have not, " Better wise up and face my lot; She loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not She loves me, she loves me not Wise up sucker to what you've got

[@mandyjones4565]

2021 and still fantastic

[@SniffyPoo]

love that album, so many good ones

[@crvenazvezda1575]

Still got Tinitus from the first gig in 1991 LCR UEA Norwich!!

[@hazza5999]

OMG I was there too! One of best gigs ever. Funnily enough my ears are ringing 😮

[@bobbyshafto3259]

Great stuff...only just discovered this band and they're on my list of MUST SEE bands, hopefully in the near future.

[@gothicjokercro]

i woke up this day and this band was the first band on my youtube list. never heard of them i like it though. alot!

[@PWEIcom]

In 30 years time you will still like this, a lot

[@charmelizabeth8584]

Love music like this! There was such variety back then. He reminds me of Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails was awesome too😍🎉🎶

[@rsvp9146]

They opened for NIN on one tour. Thats how I discovered them. They were unknown in America.

[@Richo5566]

Yeah, Trent Reznor was a big fan of their sound, which is understandable seeing as it's industrial.

[@steveym10]

Trent signed them to his record label. Dos dedos mis amigos was released on Nothing records.

[@agyflo286]

Not only Clint and Trent used to look very much alike in their younger years, but their sound also got something in common.

[@peteashford264]

best band ever

[@kimberlyoldschool]

Yeah, I thought I just liked PWEI and n the early 90’s - until I saw this video of Clint with messy hair and tight leather pants…☠️♥️☠️♥️ still one of favorite songs to this day!

[@VonDredd-E]

I miss the young me.

[@onceuponatimeintoronto891]

Used to rage to this in the clubs with my buddy Neil, it was the best of times.

[@san_droid]

tks! great memories!!!

[@djpeternice]

Miles Hunt on backing vocals 👌🏻

[@JamesBoag]

Fantastic live back in the day.

[@andreazauli2883]

Kudos from Italy!

[@vitorisrael3793]

When I bought the vinyl record this song popped out. Since then I loved PWEI!

[@huxleypig69]

One of the first guitar riffs I ever learned. God, that felt good blasting it out to this tune. In fact...where's my axe?

[@brightphoebesays]

An all time favourite. Much love xoxo

[@RazorBladeDream]

My childhood soundtrack was this entire album

[@kirstenmeows]

Oh the memories!!

[@jasonlaker8723]

Looks like bono and the boys saw this and thought yeah that's our new look for the 90s. Saw these guys in the early 90s and they were awesome.

[@dannyblint]

I bought live at weirds bar and grill on tape when I was about 12 and the old man told me off for the swearing in it on the way way home! It was a gold cavalier 1.6 saloon 😂

[@thefairyjam]

oh I loved this band back in the day and so appreciating finding this randomly x

[@jezedwards190]

Brilliant track!!! Used to love this band "back in the day".. Especially after a fully loaded spliff! 😁👌.. 🚬

[@anothersettlementneedsyour9628]

This band is like all music genres popular in the 80s mashed together

[@SteveAFCLondon]

Loving it in 2023

finally seeing this video after all those years!

[@derekedington777]

love these songs, tnx for tunes. PWEI

[@tidalwizard]

This song is always awesome:)

[@justMe-rd4sw]

cartoon indie from way back, and it means SO much more now ,than back on jb's dancefloor 😞

[@yan4524]

Yes the good old days !!!!

[@twistedviewlabs]

This band wrote my anthem...or at least what I commonly heard as a child....

[@Caffeine_Club]

Put this up against the best of Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Happy Mondays, etc 80s output, and the Poppies were the best thing to come around and destroy mainstream music conceptions. This song is epic, IMHO only matched by the opening of 'Cure For Sanity' with 'The Incredible PWEI vs. the Majority' and 'Dance of the Mad Bastards'. POP HAS EATEN ITSELF. Just turn on the radio....

[@piginasack]

The opening to CURE FOR SANITY is IMHO is among the finest 9 minutes of music ever put to tape. 26 years later and it still gives me goosebumps. A touch of genius right there.

[@MrBunsboyd]

GunHed17 here here my man

[@mikejarrett3297]

Carter usm were massive then too.

[@Caffeine_Club]

Love CarterUSM!!! '24 minutes from Tulse Hill' is a classic!

[@mikejarrett3297]

GunHed17 I just listened to the only livin boy in new cross again, forgot what a masterpiece it was.

[@andrewbarton9729]

PWEI should get more nerd credit

[@jnewhouse3806]

Andrew Barton It’s not about every nerd knowing. It’s about the heads knowing. Cool is a disease. We are through being cool.

[@isabeltaylor-clark479]

@@jnewhouse3806 "everything's cool"

[@roberthopwood3758]

@@isabeltaylor-clark479 Nothing is cool.

[@CountOrlok22]

Still my favourite PWEI track.

[@morganwheeler9191]

Great song :) Have a good day!

[@necromnous]

great stuff

[@carbon1479]

I've been going through early PWEI and I'm starting to wonder just how much influence they had on Trent Reznor / NIN. I started to think about it from all the funk bass of stuff like Hit The Groove reminded me of Pretty Hate Machine but now seeing Clint with long greasy black hair spinning in an office chair in front of a TV wall, the similarities are starting to hit me over the head.

[@TheNouveauxdecadence]

CLASSIC GENIUS!

[@mikemcdonald8952]

simply a perfect track

[@leenglishman1605]

Fun Fact at the Indie Club - Got told my Crush was into me too and then this dropped. Was already a Popi and the timing was just...wow. And yeh, it didn't work out!

[@leenglishman1605]

@Pete Testube Hey Pete. Stoke on Trent born and bred with a very healthy travel ethic. BTW, FU idiot :)

[@knacka8796]

Love the nod to the specials and Coventry

[@Miguelizk00l]

This sound is cool

[@madTbonez]

oh I loved this band back in the day and so finding this wasnt altogether random

[@JohnPeel3904]

A classic !!

[@MontrealMan1970]

Total Gemstone track.

[@kommissar.murphy]

I used to cover this with my old band. ill never know why they werent huge. (PWEI that is, not my old band.)

[@allan2011grunge]

Alguém em 2022?

[@plasticflowerz]

My childhood!

[@mrnova1827]

I love Grebo

[@sdarkly]

This shit got me through the 1990s.

[@_devolve]

For me it was Def Con One and then Everything's Cool. LOVE this band.

[@DustyCustard]

"Fairytale over for Poppies" on Graham's megaphone - was that actually a headline about them?

[@yanwain9454]

this song is like when you get some weird candy and you taste it and you are like "ughh wtf is this" and then you end up eating the whole pack and you still aren't sure if you liked it.

[@alexanderdahoola8188]

At about 2:40, in that TV screen, it looks like a one mili second image that resembles the World Trade Center attack on 9/11, the burning building, eerie resemblance to it 12 years earlier?

[@GuilhermeBelmont]

Why so many videos blocked in my country Brazil?

[@mikaelmoreira39]

Pra mim não tem nenhum vídeo deles bloqueado

[@greatestytcommentator]

Daaamn.... Back when the world made sense!

[@ericksonherlyrodriguezorti7570]

KOOL! !!!

[@_devolve]

God, I love PWEI.

[@82394forrest]

Fucking haters! These guys ruled early 90's. And compared to all the bullshit tek these days they still get it!

[@richardcrook2112]

That is generation X right there

[@bjscorpio4041]

It's reminiscent of Ozymandias sitting in front of his wall of TV screens.

[@lemsrccargarage]

The PWEIsation ist still strong!

[@shaneoconnor5319]

The punk poets of geekdom......years ahead of anyone.....