You suffer
| You suffer | |
|---|---|
| Napalm Death | |
| publication | 1987 |
| length | 0: 01.316 |
| Genre (s) | Grindcore |
| Author (s) | Nik Bullen , Justin K. Broadrick |
| Award (s) | Guinness Book of Records : shortest piece of music ever recorded |
| album | Scum |
You Suffer ( Engl. "You are suffering") is a song by British grindcore band Napalm Death . It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest piece of music ever recorded. The text consists of the line “You suffer but why” (“You suffer but why”).
Emergence
In 1985 and 1986 the band's music changed from hardcore punk to extremely fast crustcore with influences from heavy metal , which later became known as grindcore . One reason for this was the drummer Mick Harris , who joined the band in November 1985 , whose aim was to play faster and faster songs. During this time, Nik Bullen and Justin Broadrick also wrote You Suffer , which in its first version on the demo From Enslavement to Obliteration lasted several seconds (the figures vary between five and seven). The short playing time of the piece should be based on the song E! of the American band Wehrmacht . Whenever the song was played on live performances by Napalm Death , viewers kept calling for the song:
"At some gigs ... we played the song 50 times in a row ... People shouted" Again, again, again! "Total chaos."
In this extremely fast variant, the song found its way onto the debut album Scum , released in 1987, and is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest piece of music recorded to date with a playing time of 1.316 seconds . In 1989, Earache Records released a split single as a supplement to the Grindcrusher sampler. The A-side contained You Suffer from Napalm Death, the B-side Mega Armageddon Death Pt. 3 from the electro hippies . This single was also recorded in the Guinness book as the shortest record release with a total playing time of around three seconds.
The British BBC Radio 1 presenter John Peel was the album Scum attentive, his special interest was paid to You Suffer . The first time he played the song on the radio, he was so surprised that he repeated it several times in a row.
"The song only lasts a second and John played it forwards, backwards, at 33 and 45 RPM - he just couldn't believe it"
The band You Suffer played live on the radio for both the peel session in September 1987 and March 1988 .
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the release of the album Scum , Napalm Death released a music video for the piece on YouTube in 2007 .
Tribute album
In December 2011, a tribute album for the song was released as a download on Sirona Records . Over several months, 100 musicians and music groups submitted their version of the song via Facebook . The musical spectrum of the cover versions ranges from spoken word to noise and grindcore.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sam McPheeters: Extreme Extremes. (No longer available online.) Orange County, March 9, 2006, archived from the original on September 29, 2012 ; accessed on September 15, 2009 .
- ^ A b Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , pp. 28 .
- ↑ Kory Grow: Slaves To The Grind: The Making Of Napalm Death's Scum . In: Albert Mudrian (Ed.): Precious Metal . Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces. Da Capo Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-306-81806-6 , pp. 62 .
- ↑ Various Artists: Grindcrusher. (No longer available online.) Earache Records, archived from the original on December 17, 2007 ; Retrieved September 15, 2009 .
- ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore P. 107
- ↑ New NAPALM DEATH Videos Of Classic Early Tracks Posted Online. In: blabbermouth.net . March 13, 2007, accessed July 31, 2014 .
- ↑ Sampler - You Suffer Tribute Compilation at Discogs