Big Black - il Duce 2347pm 12.7.23 i do recall some dude from high school once asking me to accompany him to london... i couldn't afford it. i think he went to catch this kindda cper and bic and bob, even... though judging on past behaviour (divesting myself off the whimsy of skanks like the skum fuck who just slammed his car door) i would say he'd have deserted me to the life of london posers and skummy drug addicts... as for pizza express - the place to have a cardia arrest. very amusing... that is the law..
must be listened to at extreme noise terror volume to experience the most devastatingly heavy maximum infrasound carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind
How much I would have liked to see this band live.. In the mid-eighties there were two great pioneering bands outside the peculiar industrial and noise NY scene: Big Black from Chicago and Pankow from Florence, Italy. Steve Albini went to give his genius to growing grunge-scene while his italian counterpart Maurizio Fasolo (FM) lost his potential in productions that were too small and too penalized by the fact of coming from a secondary scene such as the Italian one..
I was 18 years old. Leeds Polytechnic, August 87... It was *FUCKING AWESOME*... And if you ever hear a bootleg recording of that gig ... its probably mine. Sorry you missed it. So glad I had a friend who could drive so we could get there, borrowing my parents car...
The lyrics don't say anything I'm Benito I like my job over and over again. And we're supposed to fill in the blanks. Fortunately Albini only sings about the things he hates so we get some context
@TheBigMclargehuge I like Albini but the explanation he gave only says that he is ignorant and superficial about Italy. at the time everyone dressed "ridiculous": look at Teddy Roosevelt with the top hat or the English royal family.
Yeah the batcave/gothiness is a happy coincidence. A very happy coincidence- I've spun it at a couple nights, and got it played by a dj at the most recent Sleep When You're Dead event here in Birmingham, Alabama :)
Jourgeson and Reznor owe this man royalties. Without big black they’d still be producing shitty disco through a distortion pedal. OG guitar and drum machine.
Yep. I've always said NIN found their style through Big Black, but almost no one believes me, because almost no one knows who Big Black were. They were the first guys to do it, and they did it way better.
"Fun" Fact: when in 1924 the PNF (national fascist party) won the election, among the various defeated parties there were two other fascist parties, *more* extremist than the PNF. The Nationalist fascists and the National list.
Many people make the mistake of assuming that Steve condones or espoused a lot of what he wrote about when in reality he was just taking a perspective that really accommodated the dark and inorganic atmosphere of the music. The subject matter is not what would normally be expected in music. Big Black had a really clever approach to creating art, I thought. It's art in the sense that it creates its own world. It lives up to its namesake. And it's incredibly powerful and very riveting music, because it was born from the essence of early punk rock. Steve took all of the fundamental characteristics of Kraftwerk and "musically translated" it into punk rock. Definitely one of the more original and underrated bands of the 80's. They should have put out one more album that was reminiscent of "Songs about Fucking" Side A along with Tiny, King of the Jews, Newman Generator, and Burning Indian Wife.
Don't be that guy. Nobody likes that guy. This song has everything to with the fascist dictator Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini - who is prominently pictured on the cover and, in fact, the ONLY subject referenced in the lyrics AT ALL. The song is even named after him just in case some people were too thick to understand the subject matter.
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R.I.P. Steve, the best Italian ever.
Had the honor of seeing this band in New Orleans when I was in high school. Snuck out and opened my eyes a bit. Great band. Hammer Party Forever.
Big Black - il Duce 2347pm 12.7.23 i do recall some dude from high school once asking me to accompany him to london... i couldn't afford it. i think he went to catch this kindda cper and bic and bob, even... though judging on past behaviour (divesting myself off the whimsy of skanks like the skum fuck who just slammed his car door) i would say he'd have deserted me to the life of london posers and skummy drug addicts... as for pizza express - the place to have a cardia arrest. very amusing... that is the law..
must be listened to at extreme noise terror volume to experience the most devastatingly heavy maximum infrasound carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind
must also dance
Hell yes, brother
This stuff blew my head off in 1989-1992. Nothing else has ever really struck the same chord for me.
Probably BB's more "goth" song, it has sort of a Joy Division/Bauhaus feeling
Steve Albin fuckin' genious.
For those who want to compose a Mussolini songlist, I suggest Caberet Voltaire's "Do the Mussolini (Headkick)".
Or you can listen to Mussolini's kid as he used to play pick-up gigs with Chet Baker!
Good choice. Apparently, Adam & The Ants also did a song called Il Duce (1978) as well 😜
How much I would have liked to see this band live..
In the mid-eighties there were two great pioneering bands outside the peculiar industrial and noise NY scene: Big Black from Chicago and Pankow from Florence, Italy. Steve Albini went to give his genius to growing grunge-scene while his italian counterpart Maurizio Fasolo (FM) lost his potential in productions that were too small and too penalized by the fact of coming from a secondary scene such as the Italian one..
I was 18 years old. Leeds Polytechnic, August 87... It was *FUCKING AWESOME*... And if you ever hear a bootleg recording of that gig ... its probably mine. Sorry you missed it. So glad I had a friend who could drive so we could get there, borrowing my parents car...
Turns out it was July. Whatevs - I'm old now!
55 and still spinning these on my turn table!
nah this song is actually about how inherently theatrical and ridicilous mussolini was.
@@loquendosenior. yep he end up hanged in loreto square lmao he was trash
@@loquendosenior. loreto square mussolini hanged
The lyrics don't say anything I'm Benito I like my job over and over again. And we're supposed to fill in the blanks. Fortunately Albini only sings about the things he hates so we get some context
@TheBigMclargehuge
I like Albini but the explanation he gave only says that he is ignorant and superficial about Italy. at the time everyone dressed "ridiculous": look at Teddy Roosevelt with the top hat or the English royal family.
Yeah the batcave/gothiness is a happy coincidence. A very happy coincidence- I've spun it at a couple nights, and got it played by a dj at the most recent Sleep When You're Dead event here in Birmingham, Alabama :)
RIP, Steve Albini.
Oh how do I ever love this bass intro - let me count the ways.
Great song and perhaps the most overlooked single in Albini's career... I would rank it high in the Big Black catalog
Really, truly good to dance to. There's enough parts that you can invent an actual, repeatable dance. If they would only let me
Jourgeson and Reznor owe this man royalties.
Without big black they’d still be producing shitty disco through a distortion pedal.
OG guitar and drum machine.
Yep. I've always said NIN found their style through Big Black, but almost no one believes me, because almost no one knows who Big Black were. They were the first guys to do it, and they did it way better.
Bro, Big Black got this from Throbing Girstle, they didn't came out with this all
Justin Broadrick needs to be in the conversation.
RIP.
YES!!! The mean ol' Big Black is back!!!!!.
Good post 5-starz.
I had the forty- five of this.
Same
Same. Melted my fucking turntable.
"stupid enough to vote him". Wich elections are you talking about?
Hhahaha , the guitar intro to this must have got him all confused with Berlusconi or sth ...
maybe he is talking about 1924 italian general elections when more than 4 million italian supposedly voted for Benito
In Italy il Duce was voted, and go in Italian parlament legally, the Italian king if want in first can be eliminate him, read history please
"Fun" Fact: when in 1924 the PNF (national fascist party) won the election, among the various defeated parties there were two other fascist parties, *more* extremist than the PNF. The Nationalist fascists and the National list.
Sweet song. Never heard of the band. Sounds a bit noise-rock-ish.
Big Black saved my life, grateful forever!
goes hard
Iggy Pop love this track ... great industrial noise
It's about a Cab driver
I can totally visualize Steve writing a song about a cab driver while on tour or something. Where did you read about this at?
I am Soetoro....
Uh, that's why he called them "related bands," meaning: related to Big Black
Great, Steve Albini is god, and you rock coz you publish this on youtube :D btw Stupid people before saying bullshit should at least inform :/
Mai Più.
Amavo Steve 😢
People VOTED for Mussolini? One tiny part of Parma was the only city to resist Il Duce!
I Dig the song of course...
rapeman was a band led by steve albini of big black, don't think it's possible to steal from yourself lol.
People VOTED for Trump?
It's interesting that he was never in total control. He didn't take out the royal family or the Pope.
BON SANGGGGG
actually naked raygun was guys from big black, but not steve albini....
@2ltdab oh dude , big black has been ripped off so bad , check en out pioneers other related bands naked raygun budd rapeman shellac
Birthday party/crime & city solution
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He didn't need democracy to command a nation.
he failed invading Greece and making his second roman empire lol seeth
There's no band named "Budd".
Yes there is, theyre australian
I'm coming from a heavy industrial background (Land of Rape and Honey is as punk as it gets for me) but this is very pleasing my ears.
A testa in giù
the lyrics don't clearly praise or criticize anything
He likes a lot of stuff, though, I think Mussolini is feeling praiseful? And then we go from there.
Many people make the mistake of assuming that Steve condones or espoused a lot of what he wrote about when in reality he was just taking a perspective that really accommodated the dark and inorganic atmosphere of the music. The subject matter is not what would normally be expected in music.
Big Black had a really clever approach to creating art, I thought. It's art in the sense that it creates its own world. It lives up to its namesake. And it's incredibly powerful and very riveting music, because it was born from the essence of early punk rock. Steve took all of the fundamental characteristics of Kraftwerk and "musically translated" it into punk rock. Definitely one of the more original and underrated bands of the 80's.
They should have put out one more album that was reminiscent of "Songs about Fucking" Side A along with Tiny, King of the Jews, Newman Generator, and Burning Indian Wife.
Trump theme song
LastAvailableAlias v original
i wish
This is why I got out of the rock scene...
DUCE DUCE DUCE
this song has nothing to do with Mussolini, it's an anti corporate song, listen to the effing words
Don't be that guy. Nobody likes that guy.
This song has everything to with the fascist dictator Benito "Il Duce" Mussolini - who is prominently pictured on the cover and, in fact, the ONLY subject referenced in the lyrics AT ALL. The song is even named after him just in case some people were too thick to understand the subject matter.
OK ..."my name is Benito" ...and it's called "Il Duce"