Absolutely magnificent! As someone who came of age when the Art of Noise and their contemporaries were burgeoning in the music scene, I think this video captured the essence of what they were all about. In a sense, they were each geniuses in musical expression. They earned their rank among the Pantheon of musical expressionists. I remember when Beat Box and Moments in Love were released. They changed everything in the evolution of music. I was captivated; and couldn't get enough. In my opinion, they moved the needle in the right direction; and they inadvertently influenced culture beyond the borders of music.
@darrenelkins5923
6 күн бұрын
Great video. Thanks
@mikeh2520
3 ай бұрын
I certainly enjoyed this and I sat through it 'till the end. Good work Max. You deserve recognition for this. You found me some AON stuff that I had no idea existed. Bravo!
@SecretFriend
Ай бұрын
Well done doco. Glad to see AoN still appeal to new generations. I loved those guys back in the day! I even saw them perform live at Hammersmith Odeon in 86 - super trippy and a super "80's" show. AoN as well as their individual members were major musical influences of mine.
@InimicusSolitus
5 ай бұрын
Art of Noise & Yello. My two most favorite bands of the 80's. What can I say.. Their music changed my life.
@arothmanmusic
8 ай бұрын
Nicely done, Liam! Entertaining and informative. I've been an AoN fan since well before you were born, and I learned several new things from watching this doc.
@sub-jec-tiv
8 ай бұрын
All their work was worth a listen and often brilliant. Even the ‘uncool’ late stuff. Anne Dudley’s wonderful musical brain (as well as JJ’s-he’s funky!) imbues the work throughout their catalogue with a special musical quality. Of course, the early stuff is quite special. And the original video for Close to the Edit is one of the best music videos of all time, fight me. (It won awards at the MTV Video Awards, y’know?) In Visible Silence is a work of genius, and a fulcrum point between their two phases. I was obsessed with their music in the 80s as a kid, and managed to collect almost all the 80s vinyl. Thanks for making this lovely tribute.
@realmcorp
8 ай бұрын
Well said, and a pretty good summary of the material... and not quite two hours! But thank you for watching and enjoying my humble efforts :)
@ronni9443
5 ай бұрын
fascinating documentary, many thanks
@newmusicmark
8 ай бұрын
Really enjoying. I knew most of this but to see it presented in order is really cool. If I may state one small item to correct. Trevor Horn did produce Yes, but only the Drama and 90125 albums; he didn't produce Close (To The Edge). He was a big Yes fan though.
@realmcorp
8 ай бұрын
Oops :) thank you for mentioning this, a minor mistake but hopefully it should be the only one!
@0Laughingbeagles0
4 ай бұрын
I was on board with the Art of Noise from the get-go with my first tape In Invisible Silence, Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise, and so on (yes, I'm that old.... :D). This is a great doco, but as with many KZitemrs, there is so, so much dialogue and very little else. Please don't take this the wrong way, I enjoyed it but it would have been great to actually hear from the group, the actual interviews from the time, the music, and so on and not just talk over the top of it. Maybe this could have been done in three or four parts to allow for less talk and more of the Art of Noise and what they were about.
@realmcorp
4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the constructive feedback, I wanted to include a few more musical snippets but had to edit them out to appease the copyright bots. KZitem's system can be ruthless on that score which is why a lot of KZitem stuff focuses more on the talking and review side than external things like music and the band themselves. It's only a small KZitem doc and I chose to work with the resources already available on the internet, just as the Art Of Noise worked with the external sounds around them, and to create a second hand mythical distance and legend that always existed in all the Morley prose. This is also the first time I've done this sort of video, if I do it again for another band I'll do a different more quickfire approach as I agree the video is long and breathless... but thanks for taking the time to watch and enjoy it nevertheless, appreciate the feedback, and no offence taken!
@sub-jec-tiv
8 ай бұрын
Wait hold on… you made this great docu video and you have less than 30 subs? WhAAt! I’m so pleased to be sub #28. Great work! 👏 Please continue! You nailed this! Have never heard anyone go deep on the period in the 80s when Depeche Mode got drunk on a bunch of Einstürzende Neubauten and made some wonderfully artistic sample-based music with Gareth Jones and Daniel Miller. Which really in a way was like Art of Noise, conformed to dark pop music. In other words, quite good.
@realmcorp
8 ай бұрын
Thanks :) Need to check out 80s DM and Einstürzende Neubauten, but I spent most of my time at university (and since then!) listening to Severed Heads, who made music along the same lines. Would like to do a video on THEM at some point but would want to check with their proprietor Tom Ellard first on how it should be done in the spirit of the band, if at all. severedheads.bandcamp.com
@rogerhoward7498
Ай бұрын
In terms of the very later Art of Noise albums ( when there was only Anne Dudley and JJ) ; would you say this period of time was like the British equivalent of what Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz were doing with the Tom Tom Club in the United States? Can you see any comparisons here to that group?
@realmcorp
Ай бұрын
I'm not familiar with Tom Tom Club, but a quick Google search reveals they were a more MOR spin off to Talking Heads, much to David Byrne's disgust. But then that was a different band project by ex-members under a different name. Fair enough. I think Dudley and Jeczalik also had a similar split from the old Art Of Noise, then moved into a more straightforward direction under the same name (which is also fine as bands have to move with the times), except by 1989 they had their own individual ideas on what music they wanted to pursue, and also had an issue that Tom Tom Club, free of any name ties, didn't have to worry about - i.e. the 'Art Of Noise' name meant an expectation to link things back to sampling and the cutting-edge electronic technology of the day, along with other social and historical contexts.
@kevinj.oconner788
18 күн бұрын
@@realmcorp I wouldn't say that. Tom Tom Club started as a side project around the same time Byrne was working on the score for The Catherine Wheel. Their first album, which contained "Wordy Rappinghood" and the legendary "Genius of Love". Embracing the relatively new sounds of rap (the "hip-hop" wasn't widely in use yet), and with Adrian Belew making a variety of sounds from his guitar, they were hardly an "MOR spinoff". Their later albums may not have been quite as fresh (I've heard only their second, which included "The Man With the 4-Way Hips"), but their first, at least, cannot be so easily dismissed. Plus, without that first Tom Tom Club album, Talking Heads' Speaking in Tongues would likely have been a very different record. Frantz and Weymouth brought Tom Tom Club's levity with them when it came time for the Heads to make that album.
@morphx666
7 ай бұрын
I could have never imagined I´d see a documentary about The Art Of Noise and yet, here you gift us such a masterful production. Thank you s-s-s-s-so-so mmm-m-mu-mu-ch!
@Novalarke
2 ай бұрын
great video. Thanks!
@peanus
2 ай бұрын
Really incredible & underrated video & band.... You've done a remarkable job :)
@EditEd4TV
8 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for doing this. I was in my mid teens when The Art of Noise began. I was absolutely hooked. Their approach to taking a raw sample and finding the musicality in it was unparalleled. My musical tastes were all over the map but what The Art of Noise did was so beyond profound that I always wanted more. Thank you for providing more! THANK YOU!
@lokust
Ай бұрын
...& WELL DONE SIR!!!!❤
@Pakkokman
4 күн бұрын
I was first aware of the Art of Noise when I heard Beatbox Diversion 1 on student radio in NZ, back in 1984. I was hooked straight away, and proceeded to buy anything and everything I could get my hands on over the next few years. Nothing, in my opinion, ever lived up to the potential they showed during 83-84-85. I think I was 15 when I bought that first record. and these names....Dudley, Horn, Langan...rang some bells for me. Looking through my record collection I discovered that they were part of the Duck Rock production team. Pre-internet it was not as easy to discover information like this. I had been a huge fan of Duck Rock, and felt that the Art of Noise were a natural progression from that (as was Stewart Copeland's The Rythmatist). I really want to congratulate you on this well-researched documentary, I thought I knew as much as there was to know about them, but you had some insights that were new to me, and your music analysis of their tracks was spot on. This looks as if it was a ton of work to pull together - two hours of content but every minute well spent. I hope the band members watch this.
@EAMAMUSIC
3 күн бұрын
Brilliant research, brilliant script, brilliant editing, and the most I’ve ever heard anyone say or seen anyone write about the aesthetics of In Visible Silence, In No Sense, and Below the Waste. This sort of retrospective was long overdue, and as a lifelong fan, I am extremely grateful.
@elliottmcpeek7443
2 ай бұрын
this is fantastic (minus the stray at kylie minogue) and makes their spotify library a lot less confusing. i wish it was on letterboxd (you should add it)
@chadmcgowens230
4 ай бұрын
You got it fkd up Max. I was there. Hip Hop then the Art. That’s the Boom Bap taken across the pond. So that lazy music you talkin bout spawned the Art. That’s why America thought the Art was African American. We already heard it. Ever heard of the Soul Sonic Force? And tons of music you will never hear because it was and still is hood. CAP. But you probably didn’t know. Great video but…. I heard the sequence first hand. Planet Rock opened that door. Don’t get it backwards. The Art just dressed it up. I’m a fan, but it is what it is. If not for breakdancing, they may had never pierced the air. Beatbox at that time would have been the only song familiar to an urban audience. That’s why the Art kept returning to that format. The boom bap.
@electronaut3263
8 ай бұрын
What a fantastic and well researched deep dive - I was familiar with Art of Noise only from their bigger singles and had no idea the depth of their backstory. Super interesting stuff - and I’m grateful the algorithm suggested this video to me as I’ll definitely be checking them out from here! Cheers and keep up the great work.
@gary24fan
8 ай бұрын
Wow! I've been looking forward to this since you first mentioned it in the AoN Facebook group last year. What a masterpiece and a badly-needed addition to this platform. I'm an old fart and was introduced to AoN when a friend of mine played "In Visible Silence" for me while we were in college in 1986. I've been hooked since and probably own every bit of recorded material they've put out. Your closing comments were spot on and, though I am not a Morley fan (I think he's a bit of a pretentious twat), you are totally spot on when you say they would not have been as successful by removing even one piece of the whole. Thank you again!
@lokust
Ай бұрын
Oh My God..... Thank you, thank you....THANK YOU for this doc! For DECADES I had no idea what the hel was going on, I just knew I WAS A FAN. THANK YOU FOR THIS CLOSURE👍🏿💯👍🏿💯👍🏿💯👍🏿💯👍🏿💯👍🏿💯👍🏿😸❤️
@steveroberts1861
5 ай бұрын
Thank you for making this wonderful doco.
@rogerhoward7498
Ай бұрын
I remember buying the close to the edit 12 inch single. In fact it was one of the first 12 inch singles I bought. I still have that 12 inch version to this day. It was one of those songs you just could not ignore, because of the samples and the incredible sonic production of the track. But the added icing on the cake was the music video to this track. Listening to this track, but also seeing this incredible music video at the time…it was like they represented a British equivalent ( in their small way) to Talking Heads in the United States. At the time…British music was not really used to expression that was totally left-field to the way the Art of Noise expressed themselves artistically, so at the time…to UK Music Audiences…They really were a breath of new fresh musical air.
@michaelparylak5649
2 ай бұрын
Okay so it would seem to me that this Trevor Horn is the guy most credited why I saw that video with the little punk girl when I was five and it was branded into my brain. In any events you definitely have to go back in time if you want to find good music today. Today's music industry a socks. I mean there are a few glimmers of Hope here and there. That Willow Smith's new singer comes to mind. But for the most part you got to go back to fine the really good stuff 😔🙏🎶
@gentlemanbirdlake
8 ай бұрын
going where the professor of rock dare not
@Fcutdlady
8 ай бұрын
Concept really ? The art is just as important as the noise, and the noise is as important as the art . Dum dum dum , Hey ! To be in England in the summertime . The art of noise is paranoid .
@JUBYDUK
4 ай бұрын
Into Battle was perfect. tAoN could have stopped there. IMHO
@ponyclub3198
3 ай бұрын
This is just exquisite. I was about 10 when I first heard the Art of Noise (Paranoimia) and decided this is the kinda music that will be my life's soundtrack, and it has been ever since. Later on I listened to Kraftwerk, Mike Oldfield, Vangelis, The Timewriter and many more but The AON will always have a warm spot in my heart as my first encounter with this weird electronic art form.
@PhillipRaymondGoodman
6 ай бұрын
Fantastic video essay, watching it I was just thinking of there were just a couple of interviews it would be just as good as any professional documentary. Also noticed that you liked the KLF hope you find the inclination to do such a piece about them
@byronhixson6860
Күн бұрын
As i love my beginings, i love the Art of Noise, since the 80's!! ❤
@SamuelTheSoundShaper
8 күн бұрын
A really well done documentary about my favourite band. I have all the stuff they published collected everywhere around the world and on the internet. I found funny the way you pronounce Jeczalick 😊
@realmcorp
8 күн бұрын
@@SamuelTheSoundShaper Thank you for the kind words. My source for how to pronounce Jeczalik: kzitem.info/news/bejne/qW6H36yOnneWfpgsi=O6SiIkDAzDzEKizm
@SamuelTheSoundShaper
8 күн бұрын
@@realmcorp it was only a joke 😊. I do really appreciate your doc and the fact that you are young and know so much about AON. I am an Italian ethnomusicologist and I wrote a small article about AON and their ideas about Russolo and Marinetti. I also tried to find a dadaism side in their music. I also compose electronic ambient music. I will be happy to listen to your music as well... 😊 😊 😊
@paulcooke6610
11 күн бұрын
Im pretty sure I purchased my first CD of the art of noise. I played the records constantly back in the late 80s. Oh no ....still love wallowing in their sound. Debussy album is cool especially thunder atmosphere.
@yaddahaysmarmalite4059
Ай бұрын
to be fair, jazz musicians had long experimented with making music from new sounds or new ways of making sounds. from that perspective, there's nothing AoN did that was really revolutionary. as long as the musicians enjoy making their musical art, its all good.
@jmd2006
8 ай бұрын
A fantastic piece of work. Thank you.
@Lichfeldian--Suttonian
Ай бұрын
I congratulate you. This is the best documentary of (The) Art Of Noise that I have ever heard and watched! The detail is accurate and the specific tone of the band in every sense is spot on! I share with you the interpretation of every album and piece of music, and every band member and guest in its time. Fantastic! Love it! ❤
@rogerhoward7498
Ай бұрын
I think that in the United Kingdom we can take it for granted in how actually the Art of Noise were Pioneers in the British Rave Scene, particularly Dance Culture in the United Kingdom. We have forgotten this group because of the Art of Noise classical music personas, which seem to be the polar opposites of what UK Dance and Rave culture represents. It is Dance/Rave working class culture, that a lot of the time, the Art of Noise steers well away from. We cannot ignore What the Art of Noise were doing at the beginning of their careers in how influential these sounds were important to the sounds UK musicians would later be doing in UK House, and UK Electronica. While UK Musicians were of course also listening to the Dance music that was coming from the United States…The Art of Noise showed UK Musicians, how this music could be done from a British equivalent point of view.
@SpaceBrix
Ай бұрын
I was a fan as a kid because I found most mainstream stuff boring and I was pleased that they were playing Dragnet on the radio and something I liked was going to be featured in a big release movie. Watching "At the Movies" with Siskel and Ebert, which is what one did at the time when you were anticipating a movie coming out, I was incensed when Ebert said "Why did they use that terrible disco version of the Dragnet theme?" Disco? How dare he? So once I made it to the theater I discovered that the opening title sequence was not, in fact, set to the radio version of Dragnet, but the significantly less enjoyable '88 mix mentioned at 1:16:18 kzitem.info/news/bejne/sHeZvYh_i6BifWksi=T2Tzkkx7v_gvyjwT&t=4581 Oh I found Ebert for those interested... kzitem.info/news/bejne/lYKBm5iukaKQrGksi=KhgQ1Ap-D3kLcUEJ&t=293 Maybe he had a point but he came pretty hard at something 14 year old me was into.
@ayaavalon6213
8 ай бұрын
The art of noise is paranoid 😻🫶
@realmcorp
8 ай бұрын
The Art Of Noise is WEIRD. (Quoted dialogue from the song 'Something Always Happens', which can be heard from 01:04:05 in this video.)
@gentlemanbirdlake
8 ай бұрын
thanks what you think…. what! sorry… lol
@KevinT3141
7 ай бұрын
What about you?
@walterj928
Ай бұрын
@@realmcorpMy favorite AoN song!
@michaelparylak5649
2 ай бұрын
I became familiar with and started exploring the band Yello a decade ago I can't believe I have not discovered The art of noise till now 🤔
@KevinT3141
7 ай бұрын
In No Sense Nonsense is the only album I will repeatedly listen to, lying down in the dark, from start to finish. Dragnet is a bit of a stretch, but the rest is timelessly perfect.
@EAMAMUSIC
4 күн бұрын
Agreed!!!
@StefanTravis
6 ай бұрын
I had no idea about "Art and ACT", or most "Art of Silence" work. And I thought _I_ was the big AON fan. So, thanks for showing me that my own teen seminal experiences have deeper roots and wider branches than I ever knew.
@apoxuponme9575
8 ай бұрын
Right! Now I can have my breakfast.
@mar1812
6 ай бұрын
Moments in Love is one of the best songs of all time.
@ponyclub3198
3 ай бұрын
The remixed version is better than the original
@LukeHealeyNZ
2 ай бұрын
Most excellent work, I thank you for this journey and the huge amount of information you've researched and presented. I've been a fan of AON since about 1992, discovering In Visible Silence album at the library, borrowing it and listening to it endlessly for the week before returning and re-borrowing several times more. My 13yr old brain was blown - already fascinated with electronic music and synthesizers, AON have continued to be part of the soundtrack of my life. You've prompted me to listen to the FON Mixes album again which i've loved since it;s release. my CD copy long lost
@realmcorp
2 ай бұрын
@@LukeHealeyNZ Of all the albums you could have been prompted to listen to after this video, that isn't the one I was expecting 😅 but thanks!
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