The Grid - Swamp Thing (Official Music Video)

[@nj2033]

Banjo and techno..... Just YES

[@ericfinn5354]

TRUE THAT

[@KittKattKlub]

Totally

[@talkt2me1]

Country techno

[@thetwitterlectual9528]

Every decade there are a handful of songs which are successful because they are so different from everything else around at the time. This is one such song.

[@PlasticGirl65]

Also Doop

[@mar02blue]

Just listen Sandstorm by Darude in 2000

[@Eviction76]

I always wanted a set of those speakers

[@sensational_cellar8606]

Playing this through a pair of speakers with 15 inch bass, and horn-loaded mid and treble drivers. 102 decibels output for 1 Watt of power. In my living room 🎉

[@kikopasinecki5110]

Do you play them with single ended valve amp?

[@teresagreene82]

10 years ago today the very talented banjo player in this took his own life. RIP Roger Dinsdale Epic Banjo player! He totally made this choon!

[@mardenhill]

sad but true.

[@woodoo215]

25 years ago

[@mlavery3568]

That's so sad. What an incredible talent he was ❤

[@roisinmc7442]

Very sad. At least his music lives on. I was 14 when this came out in 1994. Still listening at 41!!

[@Jaydee-ug7zp]

@@roisinmc7442 I started high school the year this song came out. Went into town got the album, damn near wore it out!

[@dirkvandermerwe6027]

1994 feels like yesterday when I listen to this track...

[@prashantkomnak8837]

best comment ever!

[@KartonnenDoos76]

Here also😁

[@ajs41]

1994 is the future. Its 1983 at the moment, so its 11 years in the future. 1983 is my favourite year for pop music, incidentally.

[@darthanddedeu2580]

Yet this song still as the kids say these day, slaps.... do they even say lit anymore?

[@cesartr1495]

En realidad es de 1998

[@girijarudraiah7583]

Thank you Beatstar for introducing me to this wonderful song

[@bombyte_]

here from BS too

[@ElementBassCatMusic]

I will buy the tour pass today

[@leocotterell4835]

yea beatstar is why i know dis

[@Yofi_Yukimaru]

Yeah thank you, BeatStar🎉

[@ElementBassCatMusic]

@MONKE1224 Me too

[@mannykhan7752]

This track came out in 1994 and absolutely dominated instrumental charts for weeks to come. Good times.

[@ajs41]

It dominated the normal chart in the UK for many weeks.

[@nickpapadatos5263]

I remember playing this in Sydney Australia back in 1994 as well 👍🇦🇺🎵

[@pratitghosh8648]

I used to live in Abu Dhabi at time. Saw this video for the first time in MTV and was completely blown out....such a rhythm, such a beat.....too good and too ahead of its time.....still listening to it in 2024....30 years on and it rules...

[@gregoryberg5806]

@@nickpapadatos5263yep! I was in Sydney for NYE 94-95. This song always reminds me of my trip to Oz.

[@dannybindels9901]

Still cool in 2024....

[@712mook]

30 yrays on....stil good

[@ampuia]

I was playing this song in my head and suddenly searched for it. Still very good. I wasn't a teenager when this came out. Now I'm in my forties 😅

[@rajkschwartz]

I am 41 today , still using it to do my workout - this track dominated the dance stages way back in golden 90s’

[@AndysGamingThoughts]

Good work sir !

[@Johanna-t1b]

As I work out to this right now it’s the best

[@plato2030]

Another 90’s gold

[@hollyhillbilly1747]

I honestly havent heard this tune since 1994. Listening to 2fm in my bedroom at night as a 12 year old. This tune has stayed with me and has often popped into my head over the years but I did not have a clue who played it or what it was even called so could never find it again. Low and behold by chance today I turned on 2fm while driving and this tune was playing. I had to pull over the car and scramble to turn on Shazam. I finally had it after 29 years waiting 😂 this brings back some fond memories.

[@m.richards6947]

The guy who did the banjo part was apparently screwed out of royalites and ended up hanging himself.

[@tatianaromonov1416]

​@@m.richards6947 meanies

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

Oh my word I'm so happy for you! This was my favorite clubbing song in 94

[@benavidesal]

Love Shazam!

[@gavinr9107]

Very much the same situation as yourself. I randomly heard it on the radio on the way from work a couple of weeks ago, the tune was familiar and I had to Shazam it. I was 11 in 1994. I hope you have a fantastic remainder of 2024!

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot5939]

I miss those days

[@dannyboyy31]

That guy was the Slash of the banjo genre!

[@B1llzy1010]

Love it 😂😂😂😂 yes mate 👍

[@benjaminupton7853]

I don't give a single shit what anybody says. this is seriously brilliant.. original..and extremely ballsy at the time.

[@gizzycatcat6468]

+Benjamin Upton At the time.

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

+Benjamin Upton It is brilliant. Forever my fave song in the clubbin' days.

[@gizzycatcat6468]

My clubbin' days too.

[@ericaespinosa4030]

This was awesome. This was all over the clubs back in the day.

[@ronaldfitzsimmons9902]

Benjamin Upton Ooooh yes brings back some great memories , brilliant.

[@sachinachrekar2012]

Simple dance track.Beautifully produced and executed.And some brilliant banjo playing.

[@TheYummy0909]

Brilliant music, good old days, childhood memories of 90's golden Era.❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@kirstymoss9810]

Awesome 90s nostalgia trip, this sounds as good in 2021 as it did in the day .💖

[@TheAxelay]

The coolest/only BANJO rift ever!!! Take me away back to 1994!!!!

[@swordfish407]

I had this ringtone for 6 years. The most epic instrumental composition of all time.

[@peterwhalpin]

This is one of those 'takes me back' tracks. I can totally see it's hardly music mastership but it connects me to great memories of my adolescence, so for me I love it, regardless of its quality. I think that's a lovely thing that music can do.

[@Wrathlon]

It reminds me of rollerblading

[@yurimolotov5886]

You are still right on, buddy

[@mrperfect6676]

Riiight...

[@nickrennie9987]

It reminds me of racing the police in my 84 Nova Sr (1996)

[@nickthelick]

The dude from Soft Cell - hardly music mastership?! 🤔

[@kung-fuhustle5755]

Thx god I got to experience the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s music, Gotta say this is still bad ass for 2022 compared to the shit today.

[@swordfish407]

Eternal,, never gonna be outdated. Such powerful composition. 10000000years ahead of its time

[@bratman82]

The toddler featured in this video will be at least twenty seven now. Anyone else feeling old? Totally brilliant track by the way. It hasn't aged at all.

[@hv.plt.bnb.hurkus]

90s music .....the best....

[@limononeu9363]

How the f*** did I miss this this song for the past 20 years? I remember it rocking during my student years in my 90's. Damn it's good!

[@chocaholic65]

90’s house techno with a banjo thrown in- brilliant! ❤❤❤

[@JFoley-xe4hu]

Some banjo player God bless you for the good times May they be a bed in heaven for you ❤❤❤

[@djradam]

I love the 90's computer animations. Reminiscent of The Prodigy's "One Love" (RIP Keith) video and really any animation from the movie Hackers (which is great for a 90s dance/techno soundtrack).

[@zeebeam6745]

A primary school I parked near today blasted this out instead of using an alarm to let the kids know the days over. Pure class.

[@DaTru_KezManianDevil]

Probably one of if not the BEST videos of the '90's music eras.....ah the memories. ......😎😎😎😎😎

[@catviolentred3129]

thing is with tracks like these, NOBODY CAN EVER DO THE SAME AGAIN. Not even come close. This is why they are soooo good

[@Jayfive276]

Well yes they can, there's at least 2 updated versions of the track.

[@Magnus_Loov]

....and a couple of months later Rednex released "Cotton Eye Joe". Country+Euro dance in the same type of style.

[@catviolentred3129]

@@Magnus_Loov Youre comparing this to Cotton Eye Joe.... lmao

[@catviolentred3129]

@@Jayfive276 I dont think you understand my comment..........

[@IanWeeks56]

This proves that, like every other dangerous tool invented by humankind, the banjo can also be used for good, as well as evil.

[@jesuiscequejesuis2267]

Though, just to be safe it's important not to allow just anybody to have access to a banjo. There need to be licences and mental and criminal history checks...

[@jesuiscequejesuis2267]

***** Perhaps, but it's not in bagpipe territory.

[@jesuiscequejesuis2267]

BHALT0S I can laugh at that because I'm not French.

[@oasisforever4790]

Ian Weeks like summoning a demon

[@MrDuelingBanjo]

Je Suis Ce Que Je Suis banjos for all.

[@abhix5884]

In 2021 I am still Listening this track. It’s absolutely amazing music.

[@robertlawry434]

2022 here - jee they were some crappy CGI graphics back then!

[@dioncampbell2393]

Isn't it!!!!!!

[@AdiAsaf]

Genius

[@deanmurphy1726]

New Year’s Eve 2022-still love it

[@interestedviewer2081]

2023 now.

[@gabe_s_videos]

I had no idea that there was a music video for this song. And it's flawless.

[@garyphillips006]

1994 I was 16 and convinced this was the best year for music - ever 😀

[@nunosoares2329]

You're not wrong

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

June 2020, I've just mopped my flat whilst listening to this on CD 👍. Clean flat, mop dancing 🤣

[@justinmil1]

The Country Bar I used to frequent always played this song. Those were the good old days. It sucks that Bar no longer exists.

[@iamnotanumber100]

July 2021, where’s me mop 🎶🤘🎶

[@gregoryberg5806]

Reminds me of my trip to Australia in 94-95. This was playing at a lot of clubs. Even bought the CD when I was there. Good times!

[@robm9772]

As a huge 90’s music fan, I can’t believe I’d never heard this song before. Swamp Thing by Pegboard Nerds (which is basically just a remix of this song) is one of my favorite songs, but I had no idea this song existed until I heard it on Letterkenny.

[@ajs41]

Same with me until a couple of years ago. I don't think I was listening to the charts in 1994. I was in 1992 and 1995.

[@matthewjennings7611]

Forgotten all about this before hearing it again on the TOTP Hits of 1994 show tonight. Great tune.

[@renebruce467]

This was a very cool line dance back in the early 90’s. Man good times! I was 30 now I’m 54 😭

[@cdelten]

Same here ❤️

[@geraldyong3797]

15 then 41 now

[@shelbysullinger7976]

We still line dance to it at my local country club!

[@renebruce467]

@@shelbysullinger7976 really?? Love this song

[@mozzalid33]

Love the tune and the album but also makes me sad as I miss those days so much more fun and carefree.

[@chloejones1548]

Country-influenced dance and pop was so huge between 94 and 97. But this and Cotton Eye Joe nailed that genre

[@paulpaul8861]

Cotton Eye Joe was awful. Catchy, but so cheesy.

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

And "Everybody Gonfi-Gon" by Two Cowboys

[@geezspot84]

I feel like a 12 year old boy again, so excited from listening to such a great track.

[@tkhalid1379]

This. 😊

[@emilycathcart7387]

I was 11 when this came out. For some reason it popped into my head today after having not heard it in years but I'm glad that it did!

[@CerberusLives]

I was 11 too! I got this album on cassette and would spend hours sat on the floor, listening to it on my cheap Walkman.

[@mrbabajidee3133]

I remember this tune maddd Nostalgia

[@xxkissmeketutxx]

It randomly popped into my noggin today too haha

[@nugetta]

me too - I was 14

[@happyvlogs5867]

Same here 😀

[@Wrathlon]

These guys definitely hold the record for most rocking use of a banjo.

[@hwd7]

I was searching for this the other day, but couldn't remember the title. 1994 was one of the best years for music. Shout out to all my Gen X Fam!

[@nameless_wonderer]

Crazy music, even after all these decades!! 😅

[@nigelblockhead80]

I was up in the Forest of Dean 2 weeks ago on a Sunday morning and heard a rave still going. So I walked towards it and eventually found it, it finished at about 12.30pm with an extended version of this track. Fucking hilarious to see all the families walking around with this music blasting out for miles around 😃

[@EDM1210]

Absolute banger!! And still sounds great in 2021

[@22lilacsky]

Wow, I haven't heard this song in years! Takes me back to my 14 year old self in 94. ❤❤❤

[@AnilKumar-oo6og]

Absolute control over the instrument my God it's superb

[@djordjemarcetin]

I remember the feeling I had that day in Budapest 25 years ago when I bought this tape!!! Still gives me goosebumps :D

[@laxmigarud7006]

Truely agree with everyone noone can beat this song , gets into ur blood when music starts today iam 45 still when u listen to this music I go back

[@ericaespinosa4030]

Damn I remember this song! I've been looking for this for so long and I didn't bother to check dance hits of '94. I remember dancing to this in the clubs. What memories...

[@stuartkent]

takes me back....they were the days of the retro tunes lol

[@AnitaMoyles]

The grid samples and mixed banjo but behind it's DJ..❤ they open doors for acts like Greece 2000 or BT or grace .. without 2024% doubt..thats fsct🎉

[@Handle2190]

Hearing this number after decades... and nothings changed ... I feel so so so grateful and happy to be part of the Era that knew the true meaning of entertaining music ...🙏🏻🙏🏻😊😊😇

[@bagelking5551]

TTTUUUUUNNNNEEEE!!! remember going crazy to this in the clubs back in the day before mobiles or pandemics😂😂😂😜

[@BRUMMIELASS123]

Brilliant tune from the 90's still love this it has such energy...I just dig it 🤗

[@Nixter1974007]

It's superb 👌👌

[@craigmoyle2924]

Can you reccomend anything else

[@attilathehun2232]

How could I have completely forgotten about this....

[@scottalexander4685]

Absolutely magic for its time.. enjoy

[@lordlarssen]

RIP Roger Dinsdale .... This tune still rocks 💕

[@tracyhedges3142]

I was 18 years old when this came out I'm 47 this year time flies by so fast

[@maulikdave2164]

Same herr and am still grooving to it…..all time Favourite

[@WezBolton]

I think you have your dates mixed up mate. (Y)

[@peterbason2882]

51..❤❤

[@hv.plt.bnb.hurkus]

😢

[@CrazedCrittic]

Glastonbury! This was in the charts.. fond memories of jumping around to this on another spiritual planet :)

[@vinpol6183]

Обалденная вещица!💪👍 С 90-х годов тащусь от неё. СПАСИБО!🤝

[@suawekka]

that tune will never get old... NEVA!

[@smolinlondon]

This reminds me of a recent project in Portugal called OMIRI, where rural sounds and folk songs sung by elders are mixed with folk techno rhythms. :) amazing to see there were projects with similar ethos already in the nineties!

[@smolinlondon]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWSQmWyBipl4p6Msi=XW9XTt1SP_9QKGOO

[@paulodonnell935]

I bought this on cassette frm HMV , I was a Hardcore/Junglist/Breakbeat Pill head at the time so tbh it got left in its case ...... Top One Nice One , Get Sorted 🥊🥊

[@Willo7863]

Same

[@bassbytes]

Haha, I had the single they did before this which was quite decent. But god this was awful.

[@nicholasoliver]

Takes me back to my final year at uni. Happy, carefree times. Perfect soundtrack.

[@stacievantuyl7848]

Back in the early 90s when I was a teenager I bought this CD to be shipped in to me. I still have it to this day. I loved the CD.

[@eighteenfiftynine]

I'd memoryholed this track for some reason. Weird feeling hearing it and seeing the video after all these years. It was massive back then!

[@jlrice21]

Jamming to 90s Spotify and this song came on and I immediately went, “Letterkenny!”

[@KarlHamilton]

A fine place 🇮🇪

[@corvozoppicando]

Yes! Letterkenny! I had to find this song, and, I thought it was Gangstagrass!

[@pdb606]

When your friends in hole - you get right down there with them …

[@Seabee156]

Someday I’m gonna get 15 other people to line-dance with me in a parking lot, Dary Style to this song, playing over the car speakers

[@mikesikora9823]

The Letterkenny Talent Show

[@jukkatuhkanen4359]

Wow. Awesome. 2014 to 2021 must have matured like good wine. :);) I picked it just today. ;):)

[@fryode]

2014? Try 1994. That's serious legacy material.

[@sarakirk9542]

Hard to believe but I’m here because this is used In the Line Dance world as a track. Great tune, happy and upbeat. Sounds amazing as always Unique in a class of its own 🎶🎵

[@archieohare]

Wow, such a memories! The song can be guessed from one second!

[@sjcobra84]

so underrated. This was the highlight song of my childhood

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

+Sherbet_Bomb You ain't lyin'. I was of clubbing age, it was INSANE on the dance floor when this tune started.

[@kerriboyle2682]

Sherbet_Bomb so much!!

[@sb49534]

Same here was a brilliant song

[@santhoshmuruganantham7435]

So true , this song is highly underrated. .

[@oryday1133]

@@jenniferlaynemusic I remember everyone would stomp. good times.

[@paulmazzrillo7858]

This song is the sole reason I want to learn to play the banjo.

[@enderslayer247]

Same, ExDee

[@cos_obs]

You go!!!

[@rahulpchowdhury3458]

Did you learn??

[@jamesl2531]

I'm in...

[@NuGanjaTron]

Yeah, how'd that work out? Easier that it sounds, eh? ;^)

[@perfectmotionx]

My friend Donna (CHICKEN) and I would run screaming to the dancefloor and dance our butts off to this song every Thursday night at Club 21 in Birmingham Alabama in 1994! Our friends didn't understand why we were so in love with this song...The banjo & the beat -- stompin' our feet -- AWESOME SONG!!!

[@teebee2420]

I used to wake up to this song at around 3/4am on Rage (fellow Aussies you know!) Loved it then and love it now

[@certainlynotaserialkiller]

YES. HOLY FUCK, MEMORY UNLOCKED.

[@teebee2420]

😂 good ol rage

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

Incredible! Who'd've ever believed that ex-Soft Cell member Dave Ball was one of the musicians behind this piece of genius?!

[@ideologicduck]

Exile On Main Street if you look where fat boy slim come from it’s not that hard to believe👍👍

[@nellyb2434]

He wrote it, like all of the music for Soft Cell. I was in a studio with him once and yes, if you saw him work, he is a genius.

[@SK-S2N]

Now that's what I call music.

[@bitspacemusic]

This video is a goldmine of gear - SH-101, OB 4-Voice, TB-303 (on album cover) and all those pod speakers.

[@NuGanjaTron]

Synthesists would kill for an OB 4-Voice these days, considering their rarity!

[@roberttodd2414]

what's the thing with the drum pads?

[@Soyuz2578]

They certainly don't make them like this anymore 👍🏻👌🏻

[@1BoxFighter]

Я слушал одним из первых их великолепный альбом Evolver на кассете в 1993. Причем, это достаточно серьезная, самобытная музыка. Трек The shapes of sleep - считаю феноменальным и входящим в 100 треков Вселенной. Вообще, The Grid - очень даже не для забавы. Также хорош их более ранний альбом 456, с заглавной композицией - Turn and face the sun! Просто красота! Меня всегда удивляло то, особенно в те годы, что есть такая музыка, а люди не то, что ее не слышали или проходят мимо и даже не то, что ее услышали через 30 лет, а то, что они ее никогда не поймут. И более того - какой она осталась недооцененной!

[@ruff500]

В те годы это видео часто показывали по MTV мне сразу этот трек зашёл 😊

[@1BoxFighter]

@@ruff500 да) но они гораздо глубже в альбоме.

[@ruff500]

@@1BoxFighter Кстати один из участников The Grid в 80-х был участником Soft Cell

[@Square_Moon]

@@ruff500 еще на VIVA было

[@danknfrshtv]

I off chops in Flamingo's Niteclub in Rockhampton when this dropped back in 94, but Letterkenny brought me back in 2022

[@FusionBeatzGaming]

Let’s goo this song is coming to beatstar

[@melanielayton9136]

Loved the Line Dance we put up at the Kazabra's Club on AFB Vogelweh-Ramstein/Landstuhl/Kaiserslautern....gaaawwwdddd I miss it so much

[@jehad78]

This track was everywhere back in 1994

[@enzononterah9232]

The Grid Swamp Thing (1994) still A good music 🎵🎶 one of my favourites

[@adelhelaltube]

THIS IS THE SONG I WAS LOOKING FOR! Not the pegboard nerds one that ripped it off... this classic can never be replaced 😍

[@jamesdavies1144]

Just worked the pit live at englefield concert for them can't get this out of my head

[@headrockbeats]

I remember when this came out. Good times. It was basically the end of the early 90s electronics genre, and from that point onward you had groups moving into much more complex techno and trance music for the late 90s.

[@jenniferlaynemusic]

+Headrock Yeah, they lost the hook and the melody over time. For me, that made dancing a lot less fun. Hooks and melodies are evocative. Evocative makes me want to boogie.

[@ericaespinosa4030]

Yeah I know it's sad eh?

[@daniellucena9694]

Music country at cosmic level!!! Blowminding!!!!! Yeeeaaahhhaaaaa!!!!

[@Livepano]

Evolver -- one of the most played discs in my 90-s youth

[@melanielake5371]

Great driving music if you're in a Dukes of Hazard mood...also did an awesome dance lesson with little kids using this...they loved it!😂

[@danielwebb4047]

94 first year of high school this was the biggest song at the blue light disco and I smoked my first joint outside then this song played and I was gone lol got my first kiss and got to 3rd base with the local bike had to wait until the next day to finally get to home plate lol

[@Mistwalker801]

You'd think I would already know this track, I loved and followed 90s electronica, stayed up late for MTV AMP, etc, but out of all honesty Letterkenny brought me here ;-P

[@aerowreck]

Banjo has never been or never will be as cool... I still have the original Evolver album! :D

[@jpapanik]

This was such a good year for music. Dreams, higher state of consciousness, let me be your fantasy. Such good times

[@pauljordan4452]

Shame I was too young to appreciate it.

[@mistymoon3987]

1994 my mum was training as a nurse she told me about dancing like a lunatic to this in a club called knights in Northampton 🤪🤪🤪🤪 wild times

[@menaharker]

That was me too

[@jorgefernandez7738]

Queremos más como esta.

[@leafmebee]

Popped into my head today the banjo part. So damn catchy.