Nine Inch Nails - Down In It

The video that launched an FBI investigation in the death of Trent Reznor. (seriously)

Die Krupps - Bloodsuckers

The poor man's Ministry.

Foreskin 500 - Black Cadilac

Some crazy stuff there.

Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

the timelapse, particularly the reversed decaying dog corpse to living dog, always amazed me. years later when I saw NIN perform at Red Rocks, Trent closed out with Hurt and told the crowd "When I wrote that song, I never thought I'd be performing it hear, thank you." Pretty cool that Red Rocks was a goal for him.

Skinny Puppy - Dig It

There's two things about this video, one, it was apparently rumored to contain footage of a snuff film and two, apparently the later released "Down In It" by Nine Inch Nails is kind of similar in sound. hmmmm.

Nitzer Ebb - Lightning Man

Another video that I recall being used for credits montage clips on Teletunes.

The Young Gods - Gasoline Man

Yet another wax trax records industrial artist.

Dink - Green Mind

Because of the breakthrough success of Nine Inch Nails, record labels signed up every piece of poop pseudo-industrial band they could find. While that lead to major label success for worthy acts like Ministry it also brought a huge ammount of crap into the mainstream. Crap like Dink. It's pretty funny to watch this now, though.

Frontline Assembly - Mindphaser

Front Line Assembly - Mindphaser
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Ahh yeah, one of my favorite videos from my teen years. Most of the footage is from a Japanese movie called Gunhed. I just love the cyberpunk visuals.

KMFDM - Vogue

Footage from this was used for the Teletunes credits, mainly the video of Sascha riding on the boat.

Terminal Power Company - The Hunger, TheHeat

Yet more weird industrial videos that I never saw anywhere else but on Teletunes.

RIP Dannie Flesher, Co-Founder of Wax Trax Records

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2010/01/wax-trax-cofounder-dannie-flesher-dies-at-57.html

Wax Trax Records was started in Denver in the 1970s by Dannie and his partner Jim, they later sold the store and moved to Chicago where they started up another store also called Wax Trax. They specialized in hard to find imports of early punk and electronic music, eventually starting their own label that epitomized the "disco industrial" sound Chicago was famous for in the late 80s early 90s. Bands signed to Wax Trax included Ministry, KMFDM, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Coil, Underworld and others, most of which went onto great success after the label folded.

Definitely a man whom Teletunes owed a great debt to its musical selections and founding the Denver record store institution Wax Trax, which is still operational to this day.



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KMFDM - A Drug Against War

KMFDM has everything a teenage boy wants: loud, thrashing music, ambiguous politics and awesome comic book style art. This video by them was never ever topped, mainly because they pretty much used all their cool album cover art in it.

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Sex on Wheels

this video made me want to join a thrill kill kult. it also made me want to see Cool World, which was probably a worse life choice than the latter. Yet another video that made even me as a teenager question Channel 12's showing of Teletunes.

Switchblade Symphony - Clown

JESUS CHRIST TO THIS DAY I AM STILL SCARED OF THIS BAND.

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

Ministry -"Jesus Built My Hot Rod"
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OH SHIT! MINISTRY + GIBBY HANES OF THE BUTTHOLE SURFERS!!! Holy shit!!!!!!! I was right, it's like Reese' Peanut Butter Cup!

The Butthole Surfers - Who Was in My Room Last Night?

A perfect companion piece to the previous video by RevCo, they both seem to be pretty close to the same idea. I wonder if these Butthole Surfers guys ever met the guys from Ministry?

Revolting Cocks - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

Oh man, this video was too awesome when I first saw it on Teletunes. It combined everything the teenage me loved: Ministry, crazy covers of shitty Rod Stewart songs, the promise of naked women, sleazy video and bizzaro antics. Gotta the deadpan delivery and the what-kind-of-drugs-were-they-on look.

Nitzer Ebb - Kick It

They seemed to play this video every week for a while. Good song, probably the only good one off that album. I loved the weird American Bandstand/Soul Train look of the video, but filled with the kind of dorky kids who liked industrial rock instead.

Ministry - Just One Fix

MINISTRY - just one fix
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I remember the footage of William S. Buroughs and his freaky hand motions was used on the credits for Teletunes for a while. Great video and one of the most hard rockin', heaviest songs ever.