Album · Front 242
Tyranny ▶For You◀ by Front 242
Tyranny ▶For You◀ is an album by Front 242, released in 1991. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Tragedy (For You)”, on 1 list with a best position of #789.
Tyranny (For You), Front 242's fifth studio album, came out in 1991 on Epic Records, the Belgian group's first record for the label after they left Chicago's Wax Trax! Records behind. Coming after Front by Front, it's electronic body music, the style they named and pioneered, with a bigger budget and a colder stare: machine rhythms marching in lockstep and synths grinding like factory gears, industrial music you can actually dance to. Daniel Bressanutti, Patrick Codenys, Jean-Luc de Meyer and Richard 23 make up the lineup.
No Front 242 album ever charted higher: it got to 95 on the Billboard 200 and 5 on CMJ's Radio Top 150, and "Rhythm of Time" climbed to 11 on Billboard's dance chart, the same spot the title track had reached. That video even flickers across a TV screen in Single White Female, and "Moldavia" turned up in TV promos for K2 the next year. "Tragedy (For You)" is the track that made the countdowns.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Tyranny ▶For You◀ on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tragedy (For You) | 1 | #789 | – | 1991 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.