Shock Therapy - Hate Is a 4-Letter Word (Official Audio)

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Taken from the album "Theatre of Shock Therapy".
The brainchild of a disturbed 19-year-old, Shock Therapy was created in 1984 by lead singer/guitarist/synthesist Gregory John McCormick a.k.a. Itchy together with guitarist E. Keith Jackson. After spending an influential period of his teenage years in the care of psychiatric institutions, Itchy channeled pent-up aggressions creatively in his early adult life to what became the most original, raw underground music group in existence. Critics and fans alike cannot argue- no band does what Shock Therapy does, has done in the studio, or on stage. But let’s go back to the year 1979, THE year, when Itchy, aka Gregory John McCormick founded a band called SHOCK THERAPY and started to mix up hardcore-guitars with synthetic sounds, to create very ludicrous songs. For a while, the band worked with changing line-up in the American underground, but in 1985 they had their breakthrough with the debut-album HATE IS A 4-LETTER WORD. Just after two weeks the first pressing was completely sold out and even in Europe, where bands like FRONT 242 started to make EBM known to the public, the band had many fans. And still today, three decades after, “Hate is a 4-Letter Word” is still one of those underground cult-songs, which are played in every independent-disco. The rest is history! But SHOCK THERAPY renounced on keeping the successful line. Itchy created uncomfortable songs with agitating lyrics and sick arrangements and their following albums saw them fading. Because being an absolute insider-cult-act, they couldn’t burn out, like so many wave-bands at the same time. And while the critics got more and more confused and helpless, while the band was caught in rumours about the misuse of drugs and insanity and while a mere cult around them was shaped, their style got mature. SHOCK THERAPY, the name stands for wonderful melodies and provocative lyrics always tighten one another. SHOCK THERAPY doesn’t frighten to desecrate their own songs by distuned guitar-riffs. Behind Itchy’s work, there’s more than just the wish to create. With literature readings, book-releases, graphics and painting, he gives us a complete view of his inner world: twisted, but not more than the normality of our sick society.
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[@memyselfandi_69]

Those times...metalheads, punks, gothics...all together every week in a small club in my hometown. Best youth ever... no smartphones.. but a hell of great music. Greetz from Germany!

[@missnordstern2119]

Kann ich nur zustimmen! ♥

[@salzstreuerdeluxe]

+1

[@DiversityBat]

Bochum Zwischenfall! Beste Zeit

[@uveiceland6708]

Viele Grüße aus Dülmen

[@arrival_at_the_library]

Verdammt richtig!

[@user-kj4vg8zp9i]

immer noch das beste

[@ulikortenbach410]

Ich liebe diese Zeit . Es gab mehere liebe Leute unter uns , Uli , Witten

[@horse4ahero]

Yep its 2024 still listening and greetings from germany

[@paramo.alejandra]

What has changed me into something I don't know? Forgotten feelings like I never know Eyeballs bouncing in a room of blinded me Careful of feelings I thought I knew me A man is waiting at the corner screaming at me Angry hate for myself: the hidden me A closet of angry words no sight to put them in Hateful sea of love with no one to put it in A classic film of yesterday is just today Once tomorrow, maybe never, I hate me Bricking myself into the wall wretched sin Hoping to be by myself, I won't let you in My product is only second-grade I hate to discuss what this man has made Forming in my hands I know it all too well Staring at the glass I know myself too well Hate is just a four letter word, Hate is just a four letter word.

[@JMNTLRDRX]

Gracias por poner las letras.

[@simonjager9259]

OF wretched sinn!

[@myphotographixx4866]

Yes yes yes feel the same 🤜🖤🤛 yes

[@physicswcccd]

Thank you! Love singing along!

[@carltrano1325]

I still to this day do not understand why this band never made the big time. Never for get going down town Detroit and watching these guys when i was a teenager. My friend Jerry worked with the guitarist at koshes sandwich company in novi dam those dam good times.

[@paulkneale3581]

The fact that the frontman was a suicidal sociopath could have had something to do with it...

[@dirkwenzlaw8773]

In den Diskotheken gehört und später die CD gekauft- soviel Kraft und Power dieser Song

[@user-pi1gu6sq8g]

Hä? Diskotheken? Wurde dieser geniale Song wirklich so schlimm abgewertet?

[@dirkwenzlaw8773]

😂Das Spirit in Dortmund oder der Musikzirkus haben das ebenso gespielt wie das Zwischfall in Bochum Langendreer. Das spirit war jetzt keine gewöhnliche Diskothek wie Sie es nennen würden🤫​@@user-pi1gu6sq8g

[@squidmonster2]

This song came back to me in my sleep last night. First heard it on WORB 90.3 FM Farmington, Michigan radio in the Detroit suburbs in the 80s. It's a haunting song. Had to look it up again after I awoke.

[@ruthdittmann2557]

Immer wieder schön daß zu hören

[@noloveonafrigidplanet5594]

Dieser Song hilft mir gerade mit meinem Selbsthass zurechtzukommen hat mir tatsächlich schon mehrmals das Leben gerettet. Es geht mir zum Glück schon besser.😊

[@vault39]

Selbsthass kommt aus der Kindheit. Schau dir ganz genau an, wie deine Eltern mit dir umgegangen sind. Ein Kind übernimmt ungefragt, was die Eltern ihm vermitteln. Der Selbsthass kommt also nicht von dir selbst, sondern wurde dir eingeimpft. Deshalb kannst du ihn auch wieder abschütteln, wenn du dir Hilfe suchst.

[@Vogelhorst]

@@vault39 genau ich war als kind und jugendlicher stark gewaltgeprägt, meine eltern haben mich gehaßt mir das auch bei jeder gelegenheit mitgeteilt, man muss sich irgendwann davon befreienen, viel erfolg

[@Nephilim1978]

such dir profesionelle hilfe...auf dauer schafft man e snich allein...Eigenerfahrung!

[@myphotographixx4866]

Was für eine kraft in diesem Lied in diesem musikalischen Kunstwerk ich fühle mit dir 🖤

[@ShockTherapy]

feed on the lyrics and tones. thanks. keep up your spirit NoLoveOnAFrigid Planet !☺

[@TheHockPlayer]

What has changed me into something I don't know?...THIS SONG!!!!

[@NatteRoll]

Masterpiece!

[@philipppusch9834]

Endlich höre ich es nach 20 Jahren wieder 👍👍

[@luciferlost5934]

wurde dann mal zeit neh !]

[@myphotographixx4866]

Was 😲 mir ist gerade das gleiche passiert, nach 20 Jahren endlich wieder gefunden, so oft wollte ich es hören, Titel und Interpret vergessen, aber nie diesen Song diese Melodie diese Emotionen dabei 🤜🤛🖤

[@Mickes34]

bei mir sind es fast 30 Jahre ​@@myphotographixx4866

[@lakenote4631]

the band was so big in germany, but never in the north america. it's really strange that shock therapy is not mentioned by anyone when speaking about US/CAN electro/industrial music...

[@xx5341]

They had a large following in Seattle and I'm listening as I write. Mostly word of mouth and sharing CD. There is no better not worse than hate.

[@physicswcccd]

Well known in Detroit and famous in Kalamazoo in the 1980's. Since Detroit and Windsor, ON just ahave a river separating them, I bet some Windsorites were into him, back in the day.

[@evad520]

They are, the original 3 Michigan Industrial bands were Zyklon, Shock Therapy, and Hunting Lodge.

[@Kozitaju]

So True. But time will fix this

[@Bouncingballwilly]

I don’t get it either. Executive Slacks is another rarely mentioned band

[@physicswcccd]

I recall going to Shock Therapy/Itchy shows and looking for any CD that had that song on it. The original LP release (and tracks from it) were nowhere to be found. I got other CD's he had because I love the band, and Itchy is a trip... and fellow Detroiter. I heard there were Copyright issues and other stuff preventing it from being played. I first heard Shock Therapy being played frequently on WIDR FM in Kalamazoo. I can swear that a song from that LP was played about every hour for a week in, what I think was, the Summer of '85. Of all the songs on it this one stood out. I still remember it almost 40 years later.... and here it is!!!

[@aryawu5992]

Wahnsinn 😮

[@bradscott3165]

I used to own this labum, I bought it when it came out in Detroit. I was stunned a few years later when, my first night in Ithaca NY, I turned the hotel TV to a local FM station and heard this song pouring out of the tv speaker. A classic Detroit band, one day they'll get the recognition they deserve.

[@TheWayne4711]

Immer noch voll geil...😊

[@m.g.8206]

Ohhh wie ich es liebe ❤️

[@Universe021]

Hi, whats your name?

[@paramo.alejandra]

Thank you! Perfect song.

[@myphotographixx4866]

Found it after 20 jears 🙆🏻‍♂️

[@can7say]

I had all the albums back then. I still love the tracks today. Shock Therapy even influenced my own music a lot. Thanks guys. 🖤❤️🎶

[@Mindgoop]

This song has been my earworm for 3 days now.

[@ShockTherapy]

thanks.. please follow and subscribe. new old releases coming up 😄

[@Mindgoop]

@@ShockTherapy Awesome I look forward to hearing them.

[@physicswcccd]

Since the 80's for me. Haven't heard it through my ears since then. Just over in my head... LOL

[@Mindgoop]

@@physicswcccd lol yeah i know what you mean. I heard it for the first time this year (though I was a teen in the 80s). I like being old.

[@gertjelken424]

Gänsehaut

[@missnordstern2119]

Eins der besten Lieder aus der Dark Wave / Goth Zeit. Vergesse nie unsere drei Schritte vor, zwei zurück in meinem Lieblingsschuppen Line Light Düsseldorf mit Nebeleffekt. Sitzengeblieben, aber die Line Light Abende waren es wert! ♥

[@martinlo.2676]

I Love & Hear this Song best 30 Years, and I sing all the Time ...is NOT just a......🤟🏽🤪

[@SuperFrancesCat]

Brilliant

[@dirkk.1249]

Ist einfach nur gut. Ich liebe es!!!

[@H8MACHINE1]

Lyrics: What has changed me into something I don't know? Forgotten feelings like I never know Eyeballs bouncing in a room of blinded me Careful of feelings I thought I knew me A man is waiting at the corner screaming at me Angry hate for myself: the hidden me A closet of angry words no sight to put them in Hateful sea of love with no one to put it in A classic film of yesterday is just today Once tomorrow, maybe never, I hate me Bricking myself into the wall wretched sin Hoping to be by myself, I won't let you in My product is only second-grade I hate to discuss what this man has made Forming in my hands I know it all too well Staring at the glass I know myself too well Hate is just a four letter word, Hate is just a four letter word.

[@carstenmauritz5995]

Wow, damn long ago, half a lifetime you could say - but I can remember 1985 well .. Brilliant song and we didn't differentiate musically back then, we heard what we liked in our black days and everything was a lot under grufti - the term goth relaxes only after we almosteveryone said goodbye (a little time travel) rip 🎼🖤🍷

[@ms040272]

Wow, what a great song, I love it from the first earring, so emotional, beautiful song

[@Byrvurra]

So good.

[@onair646]

Merci pour le téléchargement

[@Motzmann-hg7no]

Dank der Serie "Stranger Things" bin ich wieder auf meine alte Kultband gestoßen. Vielen, vielen Dank dafür!😍😍😍

[@ShockTherapy]

Wir danken dich. lg Shock Therapy

[@Ken_Casanova]

Letzten Freitag, Phantoms Party im Lux, Hannover, Tanzfläche voll!

[@Pommesballerina]

Liebe 🖤

[@jstreet3337]

Come out, come out, wherever you are 😮

[@raffaelbild1536]

The perfect song to drink yourself to death. A classic that will never be forgotten and is an evergreen on the dancefloors. Thanks for the upload!

[@ShockTherapy]

thank you for sharing your thoughts.

[@wojtekooo7948]

po prostu kosmos :) zajebisty kawałek :) !!!!!!

[@Bladepower73]

Und gerade wieder ❤️

[@johns3106]

Like many of the rest of you that are here…this was my anthem when I was 19. 🤬

[@alicegromann9798]

So long time .... I LOVE IT SHOCK 😍😍😍 I LOVE ME !!

[@gout78]

still soo good, Mercì

[@myphotographixx4866]

20 jears later i hear'd last, found it 😢 searching 20 jears this great song, i forgot the title and Interpret. Now i found it, so many Feelings so many emotions then hear it, means a lot of me, who wants to know My story 🤔😁 so what, i have to Share My Feelings with you 🖤🤘🏻🖤

[@myphotographixx4866]

Sorry for my terrible english 🤫 dont hate me, enough that i hate myself

[@ShockTherapy]

thanks. It s still not over. New Old Releases will come soon. Please stay tuned ☺

[@vladtepes7539]

is is a two letter word and a just one and a letter.

[@francoisgoldbeck8657]

Vlad, congratulations to your immortallity.

[@TheHockPlayer]

jesus christ that took me almost a minute to get! I'm still kinda laughing...funny stuff right there.

[@daniellee5147]

The fucking mental gymnastics I had to go through to read that is astounding.

[@smolfen5081]

Noch jemand da ??? Guten Abend ... wann besser als jetzt?`Enjoy !!!!!

[@yayitadarkwaverocktecnopop3573]

This song is a cut dark veins 🖤🦇❤‍🔥

[@josenataniel963]

Meu Deus! Não creio que encontrei essa música depois de 7 anos. 😭😭😢😢😢

[@z-manscomic-talk8953]

Hi from Germany. Thanx for uploading, your music is timeless. RIP Itchy. And can you please please upload "All In All"? Would be great!

[@ShockTherapy]

😉

[@MIGELGLORIA]

FOREVER AND EVER MANY MANY YEARS!FUCK THE WORLD!!I CRY

[@pierredeby5835]

Conversion vers un intime non dénommé . . . Zone incongrue de mouvements . . . Tort à non douter des déchéances . . . X)

[@simondressler8966]

I know my self too well

[@aryawu5992]

Lief bei bei Aktenzeichen xy im Film toll !

[@ShockTherapy]

Welche Sendung? Die letzte?

[@aryawu5992]

@@ShockTherapy vor 2 Jahren Disco mord

[@aryawu5992]

Hass mord Cindy Koch Oberhausen cold case lief 4 min im Film

[@ninastielow6315]

🖤

[@goodycaoalso3910]

❤️❤️❤️

[@simonjager9259]

Corona has changed us into Something we don't know

[@AngelaUnderground]

so true

[@simonjager9259]

@@AngelaUnderground stay well & healthy

[@AngelaUnderground]

@@simonjager9259 Thanks I will, You do the same

[@simonjager9259]

@@AngelaUnderground till we meet in WGT Leipzig.

[@AngelaUnderground]

@@simonjager9259 I live in America. I can only dream about WGT Leipzig.

[@endlersanna8732]

I love it so hard

[@celinaszmigulan7217]

🌹❤🌹

[@Tinxtin100]

Fantastic song, it's a pity that no metal band has come up with the idea to cover it. :)

[@IsakPLein]

Listen terminal choice. 😊😊😊

[@frankdeuter9985]

Geil... Top

[@ninastielow6315]

🖤❤️🖤

[@justbubbles7058]

Germany, Oktober 2023

[@thomasl.2844]

Achja früher immer Freitags im Uni...

[@golem74torti]

🎶🎹🖤

[@Fafnier361]

97YB

[@daniellee5147]

Who is singing in this song?

[@ShockTherapy]

Itchy

[@nancyparadis1386]

God rest your soul Greg “Itchy”🩶❤️‍🔥🩶

[@simondressler8966]

hate

[@H8MACHINE1]

Hate is just a 4 Letter Word like Love . . . Pain . . . Hell . . . . Kill . . . . Dead Greetz Hatemachine

[@thousandislandsupreme]

Documentary.