“Headhunter” by Front 242

"Headhunter" came out in 1988 and gave Belgium's Front 242 a major hit on the electronic and industrial scenes whose parent album Front By Front went on to become the best-selling record Wax Trax! ever had. It's EBM at its most muscular: a cold, pounding sequencer pulse and barked commands that feel built for a steel-toed dance floor.

Singer and lyricist Jean-Luc De Meyer drew on his days in an insurance company's human resources department, watching how the firm went about recruiting people. The song came in three versions, a 12-inch, a 7-inch and an album take. Anton Corbijn filmed the video around Brussels, the Berlaymont and the Atomium included, and filled it with eggs because, as Patrick Codenys told it, he misheard the title as "Egg Hunter".

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