Kerosene - Big Black | Composers React (feat. Nathan Moody)

Why haven't I heard this before? Gonna check the album.

There's such a worrying lack of Kerosene reaction vids on the internet, I'm glad I got this recommended, this was a great song breakdown! It's been 5 years since I heard it for the first time and even though I'm currently 18 it's interesting to listen how we had the same experience discovering this song. I too think this song singlehandedly shaped my interest in noise rock and it made me deep dive into most Touch & Go releases from the time. It's been my favourite song ever since and I don't think that's dying down anytime soon. Great video, definitely subscribing!

first seconds give proper goosebumps....one of the coolest anthems on life itself,made by a genious man....I love love live this band and sound...whenever it hits the dancefloor,people just shyly go away from me🤣🤣🤣

I think Big Black used an E-Mu Drumulator on Atomizer for the beats.

Great Vinyl ...! where do these people come from ( talking about you guys :>) The Silicon Valley ? hahaha!

Boys it's called pig fuck music. It's a weird term but that's what it is

Big Black Kerosene is Phenomenal. Pretty much everything Steve Albini does is Gold.
I' Venture to say, the Album Hammer Party was the very First Industrial Metal (1986). Ministry left New Wave 2 years After Big Black's 'Hammer Party' and 'Atomizer' Albums.
Songs 'Heartbeat' (single), and 'Stinking Drunk' are much slower than Kerosene.

Definitely not a song for ear buds like y’all said lol 😂 All that said, love this vid and analysis

you guys should react to basketball shoes by black country new road!

I kinda wish the local metal station or maybe classic rock station would play this, I just wanna see tons of people's heads explode confronted with rock this visceral.

Big Black would collapse into unlistenable noise if the their rhythms weren't so tight/driving.

Naked Raygun existed before Big Black.

I’m sweating kerosene listening to this song

I'm wearing an Atomizer tshirt right now!

This is an epic song!!!!! I lived in a boring small Illinois town during my teen years (in the '80s), with long, dark, bitterly cold winters, and this song perfectly nails my emotions during that interminable epoch. Thank you, Big Black! And thanks to Initial Replays, too. BTW, does anyone know the backstory to Big Black's song "Bazooka Joe," if there is one??

There's a couple of bands that attempted to cover this and they come nowhere near the level of brutality required. Don't cover Big Black. You will not win :)

Loved all this... But a couple of details: This track predates the Harmonic Percolator. The guitar pick-ups Albini is using are wired out of phase which produces that microphonic, metallic sound, then that was accentuated by going into cheap solid state amps and PA speakers with horns and using metal pics with slices cut into it so that the pic "brushed" against the string rather then plucked it.I suspect he also used Stainless Steel strings.

Someone put Kerosene on a mixtape for me in the mid 90's that also included some Dead Kennedys, Alice Donut and Crucifucks. What a cool gift that was, really broadened my palate. Loved how heavy and bleak Kerosene was.

Best Song From The 80´s..... I Think

Contrary to popular belief, the drum machine on this song isn't a TR606, it's an E-Mu Drumulator. The 606 was only used for the first handful of EP's.

I met Steve when he was running sound at a Jesus Lizard show in Tampa around 1990-ish with Helmet head lining. I was a huge fan of BB and had just learned to play guitar. I asked the worst question, "How do get that guitar sound?". He looked past me as if he had heard this a million times and said, "I build my own amps". Throwing the glove down at my feet to be a better artist.

Legend :)

I suspect that the BOC-ish song on Atomizer that Nathan was trying to think of was "Bad Houses."

This is the path I took to electronic music as well. Kerosene and Big Black albums across the board led me to Godflesh, and then Skinny Puppy and Ministry, I continued collecting punk and math rock and progressive strange music as well as electronic, but I don’t know where I would be without Albini.

Cables is my fav Big Black track however

Before Godflesh there was Big Black. Godflesh was basically Big Black + Swans + Black Sabbath

I am surprised that this never made it on a movie soundtrack...

Guys have a lot of research to do

Atomizer is a classic.

I'll never forget the first time I heard Big Black. I'd listened to all kinds of metal and punk, but never heard music that I once described as "an army of angry insects that wants to get out of the speakers and harm you"

To be a twat about it, it goes on for a bit too long BUT the sound is incredible, love the ideas, the drums, the bass is absolutely glorious and one of the best things I've ever heard.

Big Black were the band of the 80's for me and Kerosene is an absolute classic song. Still knocks me on my arse after all these years, epic stuff.

RIP Steve Albini

Atomizer. One of the greatest albums. Vale Steve Albini

RIP Steve Albini

Nice deep dive from some synth guys. This song is heavier and biting than any song has a right to be. Can’t believe he’s gone. R.I.P. Albini.

Easily one of the top five noise rock tracks, from back in the days when noise rock was something other than just metal derivative bands...Killdozer, Scratch Acid, Laughing Hyenas, Tar, etc. wipe the floor with 99% of modern attempts.

huge loss to the music biz.
wherever you went, steve, take no shit.

Bring down the IQ!? Steve was smarter than all three of you!! yikes.

Please stop this crap - American Ethnomusicology no longer exists because of hydrocephalic 'historians'. Please give us 'your' understanding of Gamelan microtonality or American Indian polyrhythms before getting into the jacuzzi. Thank you & Gang of Four fuxuvedymuch.