You Suffer

1987

You Suffer (English " You are suffering ") is a song by English grindcore band Napalm Death. It is run in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest ever recorded piece of music. The text consists of the line " You suffer but why " ( " You suffer, but why ").

Formation

The band's music took place in the years 1985 and 1986, a change from hardcore punk to extremely fast Crustcore with influences from heavy metal, under the name Grindcore later became known. One reason for this was bumped in November 1985 the band drummer Mick Harris, whose ambition it was to always play faster songs. During this time, Nik Bullen and Justin Broadrick also wrote You Suffer, which is still 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 track is from the song E! the U.S. Army band have been inspired. If the song during live performances was played by Napalm Death, viewers demanded the song again and again:

" In some gigs ... we played the song determined after another 50 times ... The people shouted ," Again, again, again! " The total chaos. "

In this extremely fast variant, the song came on the 1987 debut album Scum published and is done with a playing time of 1.316 seconds in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest hitherto recorded piece of music. In 1989 Earache Records released a split single as a supplement to Grindcrusher sampler. The A- side contained You Suffer by Napalm Death, the B-side Mega Armageddon Death Pt. 3 of the Electro Hippies. This single was also recorded in the Guinness Book with a total playing time of about three seconds as the shortest record release.

The English BBC Radio 1 presenter John Peel became aware of the album Scum, his special interest was paid to You Suffer. When he first played the song on the radio, he was so surprised that he several times consecutively repeated it.

" The song takes so only a brief second, and John played him forward, backward, and at 33 to 45 rpm - he could not believe it "

Both the Peel session in September 1987 and in March 1988 the band played You Suffer live on the radio.

Tribute album

In December 2011, a tribute album was released as a download to the song at Sirona Records. Facebook filed for several months 100 musicians and music groups their version of the song a. The musical spectrum of cover versions ranging from spoken word to noise and grindcore.