Tyranny >For You<

Front 242

Product Details

• CD-R (February 2, 1991)
• Original Release Date: January 29, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Epic/ Sony
• ASIN: B0000027GL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #13,910 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Front 242's music moves the body and the intellect with equal efficacy, and this album is definitive of that sound. Musician/programmers Patrick Codenys and Daniel Bressanutti brilliantly hold forth with multi-dimensional layers of percussion, noise, keyboards and spoken-word fragments. Gliding over and slashing through this thoughtfully aggressive din are lead singer Jean-Luc DeMeyer's low, ominous vocals. He deploys his trademark rumble with dangerous accuracy on the moody "Untold", with matter-of-fact despair on "Tragedy For You." "Rhythm Of Time" is an electro masterpiece, invigorating and foreboding. Backing singer Richard 23 is given the spoltlight on "Moldavia," with Codenys and Bressanutti adding colorful mutilation to his confident wail. Also of note are the chimerical instrumental pieces, in particular "Neurobashing" and the "hidden" track "HardRock." --Mark McCleerey

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Tyranny (For You)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album was my "way out", July 26, 2001

By	Nowhereman "mediaddict" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews

Way back when I was in high school I was heavily into hip-hop of various stripes and colors. Then, at one cast party someone threw in "Tragedy For You", and it hit me like a freight train. The dark vocals, the agressive synths, the heavy percussion, it just ate it's way into my brain and refused to leave. I tried to go back and listen to my Pete Rock and CL Smooth or Public Enemy, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get the Front 242 sound out of my head. It was the perfect soundtrack to every dystopian cyber-future fantasy that ran through my high-school geek mind.

And thus began my baby steps into the world into Electro / EBM, which soon turned into a mad dash of sorts. But F242 started it all. I ended up picking up all of their albums, but Tyranny For You still holds a special place for me. I don't want to call it their 'peak' album, but as another reviewer said, it serves as a wonderful capstone to one 'stage' of F242 (with the next beginning with the Up Evil and Evil Off discs). It's not the most dancefloor-friendly disc by any means, but it has a great sense of forward motion and urgency to most of the tracks (although a few insturmentals suffer near the end).

Nowadays, the keyboards sound a bit dated, the programming not as complex, so if you are just getting into Electro / EBM this might not be the best 'starter' album. Even among Front 242 discs, their Re:Boot live disc is probably the best introduction to their material. But this CD *definetly* belongs in your collection if youre a fan of techno-industrial, EBM, or Electro. It's one of the few CDs from that era I still play with decent frequency, and still holds up well next to works by VNV Nation, Covenant, Velvet Acid Christ and the like.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensable, February 12, 2003

By	Son of Zoltar "SoZ" (Forest Park, IL United States) - See all my reviews

Front 242's 1991 release "Tyranny For You" is that most precious of gems: the album you must have and can never get rid of. Though some fans of Industrial music and Front 242 in particular do not rank it at the top of the list, for me this album is a monument. Every track is carefully crafted and Jean-Luc DeMeyer's lyrical talents and deep Belgian voice are coming into their prime. This is the CD that one can put in his or her single disc player on repeat without ever feeling the need to skip ahead or press stop. It is an impressive work from Industrial music's most important group in which it is eerily easy to get lost .

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Under-rated electro-classic, September 15, 2002

By	J. P. DuQuette "Contributor, Japanzine" (Shizuoka, Japan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

EBM, electro-industrial, whatever you call it, most of it seems pretty embarassing these days, heavy metal BGM for Blade II, Tekken or worse. However, some albums remain as strange and threatening as they seemed 10 or 15 years ago: Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy, Naive by KMFDM, Hole by Foetus and, yes, Tyranny For You. It goes without saying that the music still sounds like no electronica made before or since; the real surprise is that the lyrics (so often the Achilles Heel of industrial-pop) are as unusual as they are unforgettable.