classic albums, atsonicpark edition # 40: atari teenage riot - burn berlin burn

atsonicpark · 08.20.2008, 08:35 PM

ATARI TEENAGE RIOT "BURN BERLIN BURN"
DHR, 1997

Even though I don't listen to it that much anymore, I wore this band out when I was in middle school and they were one of the first bands I heard that made me go, "wow." For that reason alone, I feel I must make a classics album post to them... Though this album sounds a bit dated now thanks to all the ATR imitators that came after this (which is actually a collection of most of the best tracks from Future of War and Delete Yourself), it was ahead of its time when it came out, and it still sounds as intense and ridiculously awesome as ever. Mixing elements of punk, rock, jungle, techno, noise, gabber, even riot grrl, this album is endlessly fascinating even if it's hard to take seriously at times. But maybe that was the point.

PS:

"ATARI! TEENAGE! RIOT!"

"GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"1, 2, 3, 4!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"ATR!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

gmku · 08.20.2008, 08:43 PM

Never heard of it.

EMMAh · 08.20.2008, 08:56 PM

Me neither.

I know there was a band called the Atari's and they had a song called Teenage Riot...

dionysusundone · 08.20.2008, 09:18 PM

Never heard of it? Kids these days!

Good call, this was an excellent album...it's been a while since I pulled it out too...I might have to do that.

atsonicpark · 08.20.2008, 10:54 PM

Haha, never heard?! Come on now. Even my girlfriend's 13 year old brother knows who they are... probably because they were on the SPAWN soundtrack or something and not at all because of me. Weird. I would guess that almost everyone on here has at least heard OF this band, if not heard. Maybe I'm wrong. For a time, they were on the same record label in America as At the Drive-In!

HaydenAsche · 08.20.2008, 11:59 PM

I love it. ATR was sick sick sick.

blunderbuss · 08.21.2008, 12:43 AM

I'm with you, Atsonicpark. Not a band I listen much these days, unless I'm having a teenage angst moment, but, fuck, that album knocked me off my feet when I first heard it.

08.21.2008, 04:30 AM

yeah ATR are sick bastards.
I live the album alec empire did with merzssssbowse!
anybody can remember the name of it, wann listen to it now!

atsonicpark · 08.21.2008, 07:10 AM

Live at Brixton Academy, al.

08.21.2008, 07:11 AM

thanks for that.
love that recordings, but after switching from pc to mac my mp3s of it got lost

atsonicpark · 08.21.2008, 07:14 AM

Final show of the Twentieth Century, for ATR.

According to the liner notes, this was their final gig on a tour supporting Nine Inch Nails (who had just released The Fragile). Carl Crack had been arrested on tour in Japan (only catching back up with the band on their way out of Spain), and Hanin Elias was vomiting blood and forbidden to continue performing by medical personnel. At the end of their wits, the band decided to drop a bomb on the unsuspecting, sold-out crowd of 8,000 on November Twenty-ninth.

Released in a limited run (somewhere between 1,000 and 2,500) shortly before the band's demise in 2000, this release is entirely noise. No hits? Shit man, there's no fuckin' songs on this motherfucker. Alec Empire and Nic Endo said "Fuck it," and blasted out almost half an hour worth of electronic noise and distortion before wrecking their shit and walking off stage.

"I still believe everyone's opinion of concert was divided... on our way to the taxi afterwards a few kids threw their ripped up ATR shirts down on the ground in front of us... others just couldn't get enough. A lof of them hated us.

"To this day, nobody has proven there's ever been a comparable noise concert of that scale in the history of Music." - Alec Empire (2000)

atsonicpark · 08.21.2008, 07:15 AM

This link should work.

http://depositfiles.com/files/2253180

gmku · 08.21.2008, 07:15 AM

Never heard of them .

08.21.2008, 07:16 AM

damn

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to atsonicpark again.

atsonicpark · 08.21.2008, 07:21 AM

I remember they came near my town once when I was about 13 but I wasn't old enough to drive of course and no one I knew wanted to drive 50 miles to see them. They were supporting Rage Against the Machine and Wu-Tang clan. I bet that was an insane show. About a year later, they came back for the last time, supporting Ministry (or maybe it was NiN) in a club that only held like 2,000 people. I know a dude who ended up going to that and I asked him how it was and he said, "Noisy."

08.21.2008, 07:24 AM

shit man, thats one of these shows where you will biting your ass for the rest of your life not seeing it

SYRFox · 08.21.2008, 07:31 AM

Ah ah ATR are good. Ultra riffs over ultra beats with people screaming anarchist slogans over it

it sounds cliche as fuck but it's really fun to hear. Start The Riot and Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture are on my iPod actually

And yeah I would have think most people would know them too

08.21.2008, 07:36 AM

I would have thought that too.

but the cliche was good for its time, they have to set a sign for band playin hardcore shit and being out of germany I think

atsonicpark · 08.21.2008, 07:37 AM

START THE RIOT
START THE RIOT
START THE RIOT
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MIDIJUNKIESSSSSSSSSSS
GONNA FUCK YOU UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

RAVERBASHING!!!!!1
LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!

INTO THE DEATH! GO! GO! GO!
INTO THE DEATH! GO! GO! GO!

FUCK ALL
FUCK ALL
FUCK ALL
FUCK ALL

awesome.

08.21.2008, 07:41 AM

yes, but there was a lot of facist music coming up that time in germany, and I think their lyrics were a pretty radical reaction to that.

08.20.2008, 08:35 PM	#1
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	ATARI TEENAGE RIOT "BURN BERLIN BURN" DHR, 1997 Even though I don't listen to it that much anymore, I wore this band out when I was in middle school and they were one of the first bands I heard that made me go, "wow." For that reason alone, I feel I must make a classics album post to them... Though this album sounds a bit dated now thanks to all the ATR imitators that came after this (which is actually a collection of most of the best tracks from Future of War and Delete Yourself), it was ahead of its time when it came out, and it still sounds as intense and ridiculously awesome as ever. Mixing elements of punk, rock, jungle, techno, noise, gabber, even riot grrl, this album is endlessly fascinating even if it's hard to take seriously at times. But maybe that was the point. PS: "ATARI! TEENAGE! RIOT!" "GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" "1, 2, 3, 4!!!!!!!!!!!!" "ATR!!!!!!!!!!!!!" __________________
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08.20.2008, 08:43 PM	#2
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Never heard of it. __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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08.20.2008, 08:56 PM	#3
EMMAh invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,433	Me neither. I know there was a band called the Atari's and they had a song called Teenage Riot... __________________
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08.20.2008, 09:18 PM	#4
dionysusundone the end of the ugly Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 871	Never heard of it? Kids these days! Good call, this was an excellent album...it's been a while since I pulled it out too...I might have to do that. __________________ -James
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08.20.2008, 10:54 PM	#5
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Haha, never heard?! Come on now. Even my girlfriend's 13 year old brother knows who they are... probably because they were on the SPAWN soundtrack or something and not at all because of me. Weird. I would guess that almost everyone on here has at least heard OF this band, if not heard. Maybe I'm wrong. For a time, they were on the same record label in America as At the Drive-In! __________________
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08.20.2008, 11:59 PM	#6
HaydenAsche invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 10,755	I love it. ATR was sick sick sick. __________________ rip
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08.21.2008, 12:43 AM	#7
blunderbuss invito al cielo Join Date: May 2008 Location: UK Posts: 2,526	I'm with you, Atsonicpark. Not a band I listen much these days, unless I'm having a teenage angst moment, but, fuck, that album knocked me off my feet when I first heard it.
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08.21.2008, 04:30 AM	#8
al shabbray Posts: n/a	yeah ATR are sick bastards. I live the album alec empire did with merzssssbowse! anybody can remember the name of it, wann listen to it now!
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08.21.2008, 07:10 AM	#9
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Live at Brixton Academy, al. __________________
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08.21.2008, 07:11 AM	#10
al shabbray Posts: n/a	thanks for that. love that recordings, but after switching from pc to mac my mp3s of it got lost
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08.21.2008, 07:14 AM	#11
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Final show of the Twentieth Century, for ATR. According to the liner notes, this was their final gig on a tour supporting Nine Inch Nails (who had just released The Fragile). Carl Crack had been arrested on tour in Japan (only catching back up with the band on their way out of Spain), and Hanin Elias was vomiting blood and forbidden to continue performing by medical personnel. At the end of their wits, the band decided to drop a bomb on the unsuspecting, sold-out crowd of 8,000 on November Twenty-ninth. Released in a limited run (somewhere between 1,000 and 2,500) shortly before the band's demise in 2000, this release is entirely noise. No hits? Shit man, there's no fuckin' songs on this motherfucker. Alec Empire and Nic Endo said "Fuck it," and blasted out almost half an hour worth of electronic noise and distortion before wrecking their shit and walking off stage. "I still believe everyone's opinion of concert was divided... on our way to the taxi afterwards a few kids threw their ripped up ATR shirts down on the ground in front of us... others just couldn't get enough. A lof of them hated us. "To this day, nobody has proven there's ever been a comparable noise concert of that scale in the history of Music." - Alec Empire (2000) __________________
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08.21.2008, 07:15 AM	#12
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	This link should work. http://depositfiles.com/files/2253180 __________________
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08.21.2008, 07:15 AM	#13
gmku invito al cielo Join Date: May 2006 Location: Oxford, England Posts: 15,225	Never heard of them . __________________ Ever notice how this place just basically, well, sucks.
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08.21.2008, 07:16 AM	#14
al shabbray Posts: n/a	damn You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to atsonicpark again.
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08.21.2008, 07:21 AM	#15
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	I remember they came near my town once when I was about 13 but I wasn't old enough to drive of course and no one I knew wanted to drive 50 miles to see them. They were supporting Rage Against the Machine and Wu-Tang clan. I bet that was an insane show. About a year later, they came back for the last time, supporting Ministry (or maybe it was NiN) in a club that only held like 2,000 people. I know a dude who ended up going to that and I asked him how it was and he said, "Noisy." __________________
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08.21.2008, 07:24 AM	#16
al shabbray Posts: n/a	shit man, thats one of these shows where you will biting your ass for the rest of your life not seeing it
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08.21.2008, 07:31 AM	#17
SYRFox invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Paris Posts: 7,492	Ah ah ATR are good. Ultra riffs over ultra beats with people screaming anarchist slogans over it it sounds cliche as fuck but it's really fun to hear. Start The Riot and Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture are on my iPod actually And yeah I would have think most people would know them too
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08.21.2008, 07:36 AM	#18
al shabbray Posts: n/a	I would have thought that too. but the cliche was good for its time, they have to set a sign for band playin hardcore shit and being out of germany I think
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08.21.2008, 07:37 AM	#19
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	START THE RIOT START THE RIOT START THE RIOT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MIDIJUNKIESSSSSSSSSSS GONNA FUCK YOU UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP RAVERBASHING!!!!!1 LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!! INTO THE DEATH! GO! GO! GO! INTO THE DEATH! GO! GO! GO! FUCK ALL FUCK ALL FUCK ALL FUCK ALL awesome. __________________
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08.21.2008, 07:41 AM	#20
al shabbray Posts: n/a	yes, but there was a lot of facist music coming up that time in germany, and I think their lyrics were a pretty radical reaction to that.
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