It's easy to think they were Brits as so much synth/electronic music came from the UK. They sounded similar to New Order, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, etc so easy to think they were part of that new wave group of bands.
OMG !! I'm 58 and would go dancing till 3am again having dance clubs to go to for our age group !! Music does keep you young !! Cheers to all you 80s music lovers ..
@@rw8733 It was a epic decade, I miss the clubs, the fashion, the music and most of all I miss MTV. Me and my friends would hang out in our basement watching 120 Minutes on Saturday night.
I'm 58 also. We were on the edge of becoming ...what we are. But that energy of the world waiting. No bell bottoms but shoulder pads. 80s was second British Invasion. 60s the first.
She does a very good Job on the Drums, she was very talented. Very sad, she lost the World to soon. 😢 But now i believe (i'm not very religious) she is in Heaven and plays the Drums in Heaven. By the Way Information Society is cool and the Music too, i love all Kind of electronic, melodic Music, from yesterday and from today. Greetings from Germany.
Bad asz lucky peeps who got to experience that night scene. I was too too lil to go clubing😅. But as a 4 year old my club was @ the crib with em hotty babysitters.
This band was very successful in Brazil too. I have the two best vinyls of this band I was a poor teenager in Brazil, so in the 90s I only had cassette tapes recorded by richer friends, and a Chinese cassette player, which consumed batteries in less than an hour.
You bring up the real important issue. The essence of producing the music in that era was really trying to get over the problem of Studio to Stage. Every single instrument was electronic and that was the issue for so many groups. It seemed like every show produced a new problem. Very good point!!
they could've recorded the track to DAT and mime all the way, but they chose the hard, difficult route. God Bless them, hope many of todays artists took these risks also.
@@ashgonza92 That's what's so Rock n' Roll isn't it? The rough edges, the inventiveness, the chaos, the performance.. If it's perfect it's not in sync the neo post punk sensibilities of this band.
Wildest thing for me is: how little the crowd is actually reacting to the performance. Not because they're bored, but because they're mesmerized. Enthralled. Pretty fuckin' cool what an effect music can have on people.
I started highschool in 1979 and graduated university in 1989. "Last Class of The Eighties", so this genre is near and dear to my heart. New Wave / Alternative was as disruptive a musical style as rock and roll was in the 60s. Pushed the boundaries and forged new paths. I now understand how my parents felt when they as adults listed to the music that defined their youth.
It's crazy how they're remixing their own song LIVE.The industrial elements have always been there but I like they pushed them up for this performance.
@@lblerg Yeah,but electronic bands differ in that they mostly play leads,solos,and maybe bass parts but they rely on sampling,sequencing,programming.So to know your tools and your tones and be able to recall and program them on the fly is much different then a rock band jamming.
Exactly; the amount of work they're doing in this live setup was nothing less than phenomenal. Obviously, a live performance isn't the same as a completed studio recording, edit, mix, mastering, etc. Also, using the Star Trek phaser blast in this version was epic as well. 💪😎✌️ I mean we all know about Nimoy's awesome vocal quote (and the "destructionnnnnn" thing). 😁
I remember when this hit the clubs in NYC in '88. Peeps went nuts. It was almost as addictive the all the coke we were inhaling. Gotta say I'm really impressed with how tight this performance is. It's even better than the studio version. And the lead singer's hair is bangin'.
Spock is disappointed. We Vulcans allow the music to get us high. Unfortunately, so many of you humans require additional stimulation. Even with my half human ancestry, I don't understand why you don't allow the "pure energy" of the song to speak for itself.
"In the 1967 Season 1 episode "Errand of Mercy," Spock and Captain Kirk visit the planet Organia, where their citizens have advanced beyond the need for physical bodies. When two of them vanish in front of them, Spock says, 'Fascinating. Pure energy.'"@@nickystellabotte6331
Wow! just Wow sir. That sound and the intro in this version of the song. Awesome. Thank you! Thank you! Always been a fan since 1990, when I was just a 5 year old.
OMG, the vocal intro and hovering synth that led into the music was everything, never heard this version before. The eccentric, electronic madman persona of the lead singer in a black suit, with appropriate hair and strong voice made this the best performance ever.
Back then groups played more in the clubs, worked their way up, and honed their craft. Though to be fair, Information Society was using sequencers to play some of the backing track. Which isn’t a knock, since groups like this made music based on a lot of sampling and collage like synths and sequencing on their albums. I.e, there wasn’t a person playing the track from scratch to begin with, so it’s not a ‘cheat’ to do it live.
They played at the club (Club LeVela) I worked at in Panama City Beach, Fl. in 1991. They hung out at the club all day. Dude never took his roller skates off all day or night. Lol...
I saw this band at a club in San Francisco. It used to be called Echo Beach but I think the name had changed by the time IS rolled into town. They were crammed on an elevated stage that really wasn't large enough for the band to really move around. I remember my whole thought during the concert was "Holy Shit, this dude is going to roll right off the stage". They weren't shoulder to shoulder, but I was surprised to see they had a woman in the band. I didn't see her during the entire show. They had her ass crammed in the corner. Not the best venue for a live band. Even though almost all of the band were dressed for the clubs in the nineties, they definitely were a last gasp of the eighties. They would have been bigger if they had been able to start earlier. They were about to be taken over by a new music movement.
The sounds of the 80's pure with that drum kit set...and the girl playing it is amazing....you can see the passion and focus when the beats are changing.. encouraged me to buy an 80's drum kit!
@@jamesheggs6825some cereal box had a free cassette you could send in for and Information Society's Think was one of the choices. My mother ordered that for me and I used to jam that.
It was kinda a Hip-hop, Crip walk, Retro, Punk vibe back then. I feel "Raves" & "modern shuffle" is the evolution of this. Legwork always has a place. Always has.
To the rhythm of this synthesizer any living human being begins to float on the track even if you had 2 left feet... the background chord really hypnotizes me, what a privilege to have lived this wonderful time of the 80's... greetings from Chiclayo-Peru
I was 16 and bought my first car in 1988. I tested the limited limits of my limited 1984 Chrysler Laser jamming to this song. I miss that era and relive it here on YT 😎
I Owned a 71' MACH 1 Mustang During THAT Year! It was the FIRST Vehicle TITLED in MY Name! I Remember the Same Feeling! 🇺🇲. 351 Cleveland Under the Hood! With Dual Exhaust, Tuned Headers & Glass Pack Mufflers!
@ wow, that is sweet. My folks kept me neutered to the 120hp Chrysler, which I still received speeding tickets lol. I probably would have attempted Mach 1 in the Mach 1.
I was in my early 20's in the early 80's. even though I was a metal guy I liked this stuff. Looking back now, it's SOOO much better than any of today's CRAP by a million miles....And what great performance!!
@@cyrbuzz6615 Yeah you and me both. No chance on the H-hop. It's being pushed hard by the main stream. Aside from sounding awful, such a toxic message..
AMAZING performance. Good lord. I love that everything was done live and no tracks were used. This kind of music doesn't always translate to the stage well, but these guys BROUGHT IT. You can just hear the influence these guys had on Trent Reznor in the instrumental break/outro. Well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@Bikes0420 There's definitely a percussion track, for sure. There's hi-hat sounds and some percussion tracks going on. So there's definitely percussion backing happening. But the other instruments are not record perfect. There is plenty of live performance here. I was "dead wrong" I suppose in that sense, since you seem very eager to prove me wrong. There's definite live guitar (which I am analyzing very carefully being a guitarist myself) and multiple keyboard parts. Some of the percussion she is playing on synth pads, too, but yes, definitely there is some percussion backing tracks going on, an some of the more ambient synth stuff on it as well. But a lot of the performances you hear are NOT record perfect and I hear a couple of instances of sloppy playing in there, too.
So, around ‘97 there was a bunch of us, myself included, were talking to a guy named Vector on #InSoc. That would be Kurt. He was pretty cool to talk to. He also gave us the heads up on the pre-release date for “Don’t Be Afraid”. DrWho, Deathboy 2000, and myself (NexxuSix) formed the Insoc Internet task force, and solved the puzzle that was on that CD set. The final password to assemble White Roses cracked by me, which was VaTiCAn. White Roses was released. Fun times, and fond memories!
1989, Project Graduation, Orlando, FL: All high schools in the area went to Disney for an overnight lock-in. InSoc was on the bill (also Samantha Fox and NKOTB among others). Didn't know anything about InSoc but "Pure Energy" was everywhere and I know I loved that song. I'll never forget they played near the Tea-Cups ride, my buddies were on acid, the set was phenomenal, and I fell in love with the drummer. She was beautiful and the music was out of this world. InSoc fan for life from that day on!
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Another great classic 💯. Who's here in December 2025?
I’m here!!!!
Got to see them in Dallas at Detour about 1995 or so. It was great!🎉
Lemme check….yes…I’m here
I’m here and wishing the world was this simple again.
Pure Energy
Hard to believe these dudes were from Minneapolis and not the UK
i met way back right before whats on your mind?
I thought I was the only person that thought that.
It's easy to think they were Brits as so much synth/electronic music came from the UK. They sounded similar to New Order, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, etc so easy to think they were part of that new wave group of bands.
Except Minneapolis is a funk town where they can play with beats on spikes!
Completamente de acuerdo!
OMG !! I'm 58 and would go dancing till 3am again having dance clubs to go to for our age group !! Music does keep you young !! Cheers to all you 80s music lovers ..
It was such an exciting time to be young. 😊 I'd go back in a heartbeat if I could.
@@rw8733 It was a epic decade, I miss the clubs, the fashion, the music and most of all I miss MTV. Me and my friends would hang out in our basement watching 120 Minutes on Saturday night.
I'm 58 also. We were on the edge of becoming ...what we are. But that energy of the world waiting. No bell bottoms but shoulder pads.
80s was second British Invasion. 60s the first.
Awww my youth. I’m 52. A bit younger but we LOVED this time, I remember the night MTV came online like it was yesterday.
there are.. but its rare
beautiful voice!
This type of music is difficult to pull off live. This band is tight. Very talented.
Yes 100% CORRECT
true statement
Seen them do this live in 1988. I was 17!
Verdade
Well, since most of it is fake...... yes I guess so. Some of it is live but they are playing to obvious stems. The drums is all stems and not live.
RIP Sally Venue-Berg (Passed in 2015). An amazing percussionist. Just watch and listen to her here on the drums..
She does a very good Job on the Drums, she was very talented. Very sad, she lost the World to soon. 😢 But now i believe (i'm not very religious) she is in Heaven and plays the Drums in Heaven.
By the Way Information Society is cool and the Music too, i love all Kind of electronic, melodic Music, from yesterday and from today. Greetings from Germany.
What happened to her?
They were all great, but she was in the zone, couldn't take my eyes off of her. She had her own it factor!
@@michaelmarshall5438cierto yo toco o me muevo jajaja y ella lo hace todo genial
The percussions in this particular song hit pretty frickin hard. Differently, but hard nonetheless
If I looked up late 80s in the dictionary, I would find a link to this video.
Please someone take me back to the 1980's
Yes I took am in the market for a time machine
Too not took
This is one of those 80s hits that got everybody up on the dance floor at the clubs!!!!! 😎👍
Totally!! This song rocks!!!!!!!❤❤❤
Only in america
The sound of 1984 (aka Spk) ,by 1987 we we're in full new beat and Acid over here in Europe
I was into metal at the time but even my music Nazi friends got excited when this came on the radio.
Bad asz lucky peeps who got to experience that night scene. I was too too lil to go clubing😅. But as a 4 year old my club was @ the crib with em hotty babysitters.
When I moved to New York in 1991, my upstairs neighbor was the bass player for the IS. Nicest most chill guy, always quiet and respectful.
He grooves solid Ii n this vid! Righteous!!!
80's kid here! We had the best music, movies, TV shows, cartoons! So emotional hearing this!!
Concordo que tivemos muita qualidade cultural nos anos 80.
I made about 20 copies of this cassette tape in 1988, being the first kid in my class to get it. Those were the days man.
No brasil também foram de arrebentar
Why ?
It was literally on the radio every 5 minutes
This band was very successful in Brazil too.
I have the two best vinyls of this band
I was a poor teenager in Brazil, so in the 90s I only had cassette tapes recorded by richer friends, and a Chinese cassette player, which consumed batteries in less than an hour.
Right on man
Heard this (complete with original video!) on a disc drive, an attachment made for the Sega Genesis in the late 80’s/early 90’s 😅
Algum br ouvindo em 2024?
Sempre!!
Eu 🤝👍✨
Para los grupos de los '80, Semper Fi !!!!
Eu eu eu🙋♀️
eu
It was never easy bringing the Studio to the Stage.
They worked their A$$es off for this performance. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
You bring up the real important issue. The essence of producing the music in that era was really trying to get over the problem of Studio to Stage. Every single instrument was electronic and that was the issue for so many groups. It seemed like every show produced a new problem. Very good point!!
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they could've recorded the track to DAT and mime all the way, but they chose the hard, difficult route. God Bless them, hope many of todays artists took these risks also.
@@fdauhajre I can't remember if this was before or after the Milli Vanilli scandal. They turned lip sync into a four letter word.
I need that midi drumset
No matter how much you employ the newest technology you cannot deny the musical chops, discipline and legit artistry that is in display here.
*On display.
The guy with the keytar played a solo out of time and the guitarist is miming a synth bass line
@@ashgonza92 That's what's so Rock n' Roll isn't it? The rough edges, the inventiveness, the chaos, the performance..
If it's perfect it's not in sync the neo post punk sensibilities of this band.
@@emillion4470 No, it's just fakery.
That guitar is a synth controller, he may have been actually playing a bass line (anyway im no sure if they are live or just playbacking)@@ashgonza92
Wildest thing for me is: how little the crowd is actually reacting to the performance. Not because they're bored, but because they're mesmerized. Enthralled.
Pretty fuckin' cool what an effect music can have on people.
I think the crowd was just disappointed that the band was miming everything. That is pretty boring to be honest.
Music is the only time machine we have.
Amen💯
Not only one of the coolest songs of the 80s but one of the best hair style's too. You could totally rock that in 2024.
No doubt about it
Great time for big hair bands.
damn...hell yeah.
My favorite wild hair of all time!
I still listen to this music, and my 18-yo daughter. Timeless.
Shivers watching this in 2023.
Great live performance of an iconic song.
2024 watching it!
Remember back when people used to use the date in comments to attract attention? That was gross and stupid.
One of the best new wave group artist of the 80s
Still stands to this very day.
When new, and the first few years, MTV was simply awesome.
This is the best live performance of any new wave song that I've ever seen
No doubt, this was a tight performance. Wish I was there dancing back then among that dead audience.
@@djm8341 i was there before when they were like composing and recorderd from bits and bytes of MIDI riffs.
Dang I miss that decade. Class of '89. 80's will forever be baddest decade ever!!
I started highschool in 1979 and graduated university in 1989. "Last Class of The Eighties", so this genre is near and dear to my heart.
New Wave / Alternative was as disruptive a musical style as rock and roll was in the 60s.
Pushed the boundaries and forged new paths.
I now understand how my parents felt when they as adults listed to the music that defined their youth.
Class of 90. We thought music would inherently get better, nope. Lol.
'89!!!
This is my first time watching a live performance of this song and it's pretty incredible to see. Bring this music back!
You can't. The youth have been thoroughly afrosized.
I concur
It's crazy how they're remixing their own song LIVE.The industrial elements have always been there but I like they pushed them up for this performance.
Yeah, this totally sounds like early industrial music. Brilliant performance.
Yes, real bands that make their own music do this very often.
@@lblerg Yeah,but electronic bands differ in that they mostly play leads,solos,and maybe bass parts but they rely on sampling,sequencing,programming.So to know your tools and your tones and be able to recall and program them on the fly is much different then a rock band jamming.
Exactly; the amount of work they're doing in this live setup was nothing less than phenomenal. Obviously, a live performance isn't the same as a completed studio recording, edit, mix, mastering, etc.
Also, using the Star Trek phaser blast in this version was epic as well. 💪😎✌️ I mean we all know about Nimoy's awesome vocal quote (and the "destructionnnnnn" thing). 😁
I remember when this hit the clubs in NYC in '88. Peeps went nuts. It was almost as addictive the all the coke we were inhaling. Gotta say I'm really impressed with how tight this performance is. It's even better than the studio version. And the lead singer's hair is bangin'.
Spock is disappointed. We Vulcans allow the music to get us high. Unfortunately, so many of you humans require additional stimulation. Even with my half human ancestry, I don't understand why you don't allow the "pure energy" of the song to speak for itself.
Pure energy 🖖
"In the 1967 Season 1 episode "Errand of Mercy," Spock and Captain Kirk visit the planet Organia, where their citizens have advanced beyond the need for physical bodies. When two of them vanish in front of them, Spock says, 'Fascinating. Pure energy.'"@@nickystellabotte6331
Best hair and look in general💥👍 I'd rock that shit today 🎈
You can always tell someone who did a lot of coke when they were younger. They seem faded and they seem to have a limited supply of joy.
Paul Robb (red shirt here) the songwriter and the mastermind of the Information Society awesome sound.
Didn't care for the Insoc without Kurt. But I didn't like the Kurt only era either. They are both important. But for me Kurt is the X factor.
Wow! just Wow sir. That sound and the intro in this version of the song. Awesome.
Thank you! Thank you! Always been a fan since 1990, when I was just a 5 year old.
This was an amazing live performance. Killed it!
Traveled back in time, I’m here in 1988. Gawd I miss this music Era
ah yes.... that industrial sound ! Love the 80 ' s
😢miss that so much bring it BACK NOW
This just makes me miss the 80s. They were great live apparently. I was in the 8th grade when this happened.
I miss the 80's.....
OMG, the vocal intro and hovering synth that led into the music was everything, never heard this version before.
The eccentric, electronic madman persona of the lead singer in a black suit, with appropriate hair and strong voice made this the best performance ever.
Right on!
The hair and face...i always thought he was so cute!
This was fun to watch, for these reasons!
Goodevegniyougoningkissabrzoscolegas
Try to heard master piece
This is music! no shit! millennial music got short with this one. Still one of the greatest hits ever. 2020
🥰👌❤👌👌👌👌👌
@Jesse Mitchell high waisted bikinis 😍 hell yeah and the girlz were hott🔥here's to ya🍻🍺🍺 😎🤙
When electronic music was played LIVE and with INSTRUMENTS!!!
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It was nice for Spock to make a cameo appearance. Lol
Back then groups played more in the clubs, worked their way up, and honed their craft.
Though to be fair, Information Society was using sequencers to play some of the backing track. Which isn’t a knock, since groups like this made music based on a lot of sampling and collage like synths and sequencing on their albums. I.e, there wasn’t a person playing the track from scratch to begin with, so it’s not a ‘cheat’ to do it live.
My gosh look
The 16 bit samples and the checkerboard floor evoking peak computer graphics of the time. Super futuristic
From an ancient time when music was played by musicians and you watched fun, entertaining programs on MTV. Obviously another century.
I saw them as part of the Grad Night 1989 @ Disneyland in California! Good memories!
I am 44 and i do remember the 80s. Mostly 1985-1989
This has to be one of the best performances I've ever seen
Very impressive live performance!
seen them at grad night 89 they played a great show
That guy 😎🕺🤙🇧🇷
You should get out more. Hahaha.
It really IS good though.
You need to get out more 🤣
No auto tune,simple raw talent. And it was done in the MTV studio too
I can hear who's watching which mean Insoc is that GOOD
..might still have autotune.. that's been around for years. I dig what you're saying though
They played at the club (Club LeVela) I worked at in Panama City Beach, Fl. in 1991. They hung out at the club all day. Dude never took his roller skates off all day or night. Lol...
I saw this band at a club in San Francisco. It used to be called Echo Beach but I think the name had changed by the time IS rolled into town. They were crammed on an elevated stage that really wasn't large enough for the band to really move around. I remember my whole thought during the concert was "Holy Shit, this dude is going to roll right off the stage". They weren't shoulder to shoulder, but I was surprised to see they had a woman in the band. I didn't see her during the entire show. They had her ass crammed in the corner. Not the best venue for a live band. Even though almost all of the band were dressed for the clubs in the nineties, they definitely were a last gasp of the eighties. They would have been bigger if they had been able to start earlier. They were about to be taken over by a new music movement.
Information Society - there will never be another like it. In my opinion, for electronic infused music, this band has set the standard for Excellence.
God I miss the 80's. Had a blast back then. What a time to be alive.
The sounds of the 80's pure with that drum kit set...and the girl playing it is amazing....you can see the passion and focus when the beats are changing.. encouraged me to buy an 80's drum kit!
She was in the zone! Definitely had her own it factor!
Sally Venue-Berg was her name and she was great, sadly she passed a few years ago
OMG! Totally forgot about Information Society. Brings back such good memories. This is music, not like the crap on the radio now!
"totally!" This tune sounds sooo good 33 years later! WOW!
No auto tune!!!! just talent and more talent!!! 80 s were great!!!
I played this on my first ' Walkman '
endlessly!!!
@@jamesheggs6825some cereal box had a free cassette you could send in for and Information Society's Think was one of the choices. My mother ordered that for me and I used to jam that.
RIP Sally I miss you so much, sorry I was not there for you at the time you needed me
Can you give me more info
This never gets old !
NEVER!
I've been playing this everyday for weeks
@@emiliaganchorre it's like therapy!!!
Ta triste? Colaca uma musica do information que tudo melhora.
These are the songs that keep going through generations.
My first concert as a kid was Information Society. I loved them so much.
God, What a time to be alive...I was born in '74 so I was 6 when the 80's roll up. What a music soundtrack to my childhood. I miss it big time!
Information Society got me into electronic music and now EDM.
This live extended version sounds unreal!
My childhood right here. I remember recording every version of this song on my cassette tape.
I miss the 80's and 90's !!!!! Kurt was so handsome!!!!!
Stellar Technical Performance. Pre auto-tune!!! I remember crushing it to this jam at the club back in the day when this was fresh. Good times.
It was kinda a Hip-hop, Crip walk, Retro, Punk vibe back then. I feel "Raves" & "modern shuffle" is the evolution of this. Legwork always has a place. Always has.
The synthesizer, the must underrated musical instrument in history.
To the rhythm of this synthesizer any living human being begins to float on the track even if you had 2 left feet... the background chord really hypnotizes me, what a privilege to have lived this wonderful time of the 80's... greetings from Chiclayo-Peru
"To the prerecorded rhythm of this synthesizer" - Fixed it for you.
i always thought this was a brit synth pop knock off, but it slaps live. His voice is really good, the band is tight and the sound mix is excellent.
I think Trent Reznor was watching this at home very carefully.
Trent was in a band like this around this time lol look up Slam Bamboo he was on the keyboard.
I wouldn't be one bit surprised.
@@soysauce995 he'd already completed PHM. Fkn idiot.
I'm so sorry drummer not with us still. Blessings to her family. She will not be forgotten...as U2. Thanks. L ya child😊
The heavy beat with the hammer.
Pure 80s cool.
GenX Forever!
Utah GenXer
I like the live version of this. His voice is much deeper in the final recording.
Loved this and love this video, wow...lets jump in a time machine and go on back to the 80s!!! Who is with me? lol :) Peace.
This is, without a doubt, the most METAL new wave somg ever!!
I was 16 and bought my first car in 1988. I tested the limited limits of my limited 1984 Chrysler Laser jamming to this song. I miss that era and relive it here on YT 😎
I Owned a 71' MACH 1 Mustang During THAT Year! It was the FIRST Vehicle TITLED in MY Name! I Remember the Same Feeling! 🇺🇲. 351 Cleveland Under the Hood! With Dual Exhaust, Tuned Headers & Glass Pack Mufflers!
@ wow, that is sweet. My folks kept me neutered to the 120hp Chrysler, which I still received speeding tickets lol. I probably would have attempted Mach 1 in the Mach 1.
My childhood soundtrack. 80 era was something different and wonderful. True freedom of expression and discovery.
I did not know these guys were from St.paul, minnesota. My home state. Amazingly awesome song. Fuck!
One of the best Techno Bands of the 80s. Very underrated
I’m so glad they reunited and have a solid string of new albums they’ve released. They surely stood the test of time.
I am this years old just seeing what these guys looked like. SO GLAD I didn't know then. LMAO!
The 80's... Whether you lived it or NOT.
NOthing cringier than people fawning over a decade.
Oh how i miss the 80's
They killed it, for real
This is such a great song, bring back memories
And I graduated 88 Modesto, California love this song. I love this time.
Great song! 1989 I was a senior in HS - best time ever
I was in my early 20's in the early 80's. even though I was a metal guy I liked this stuff. Looking back now, it's SOOO much better than any of today's CRAP by a million miles....And what great performance!!
A fart sounds better than today’s crap!!! I wish hip hop would die out. That’s right up there with disco as the worst form of noise ever created.
@@cyrbuzz6615 Yeah you and me both. No chance on the H-hop. It's being pushed hard by the main stream. Aside from sounding awful, such a toxic message..
AMAZING performance. Good lord. I love that everything was done live and no tracks were used.
This kind of music doesn't always translate to the stage well, but these guys BROUGHT IT. You can just hear the influence these guys had on Trent Reznor in the instrumental break/outro.
Well done. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I mean them or Depeche Mode 🤷🏻♀️
@Bikes0420 There's definitely a percussion track, for sure. There's hi-hat sounds and some percussion tracks going on. So there's definitely percussion backing happening. But the other instruments are not record perfect. There is plenty of live performance here. I was "dead wrong" I suppose in that sense, since you seem very eager to prove me wrong. There's definite live guitar (which I am analyzing very carefully being a guitarist myself) and multiple keyboard parts. Some of the percussion she is playing on synth pads, too, but yes, definitely there is some percussion backing tracks going on, an some of the more ambient synth stuff on it as well.
But a lot of the performances you hear are NOT record perfect and I hear a couple of instances of sloppy playing in there, too.
Wow!!! This was literally an extended music version live on stage...amazing!
This is one of the greatest performances of this song. The power & energy👍👍 dude went off at 4:40
So, around ‘97 there was a bunch of us, myself included, were talking to a guy named Vector on #InSoc. That would be Kurt. He was pretty cool to talk to. He also gave us the heads up on the pre-release date for “Don’t Be Afraid”. DrWho, Deathboy 2000, and myself (NexxuSix) formed the Insoc Internet task force, and solved the puzzle that was on that CD set. The final password to assemble White Roses cracked by me, which was VaTiCAn. White Roses was released. Fun times, and fond memories!
1989, Project Graduation, Orlando, FL: All high schools in the area went to Disney for an overnight lock-in. InSoc was on the bill (also Samantha Fox and NKOTB among others). Didn't know anything about InSoc but "Pure Energy" was everywhere and I know I loved that song. I'll never forget they played near the Tea-Cups ride, my buddies were on acid, the set was phenomenal, and I fell in love with the drummer. She was beautiful and the music was out of this world. InSoc fan for life from that day on!
Now Thats music!! When MTV actually cared about the music!
Always amazing to see artists/bands remix their most popular songs LIVE. This one is def a hidden gem
A nearly perfect song performed brilliantly. Clearly InfoSec are time travelers from some future we can only dream of living in.
Damn Kurt has nice hair
this was two years before i graduated high school, best times ever!
What up! '89 here!
Miss the 80s!
This tour in Denver he was wearing rollerskates on stage! Absolutely a blast ro see live!
Época de ouro, para sempre anos 80 é 90 jamais será esquecido, estará smepre guardado em nosso coração ❤
Can still remember these guys at Disney land in 1989 ! They popped out of a mushroom stage ! Good times 😱
I love how this performance is so poppy and so noisy at the same time.
Wow, I haven't heard this in 30yrs ... I send my son examples of extreme '80s to torment him ... will definitely be sending this one LOL
A dynamic, electric performance that stands alone in their genre and remains as relevant today as when they first performed it! More please!
Grew up on this stuff as a baby born in the mid-late 80s, in my DNA
Back in the late 80’s and early 90’s they would play this in the skating rink
I had the cassette single. Played it over and over in my car.
OMG, haven't heard this song in 30 years! Love it!