YMMV / Front 242

• Epic Riff: The aforementioned synth bassline. Also, the lead synths from "Until Death (Us Do Part)" and "Circling Overland", the synth horns and main hook of "Quite Unusual", the basslines of "No Shuffle" and "Rhythm Of Time"... The list goes on.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: While they did well in their home country of Belgium, they arguably reached their highest commercial success within the US.
• Mainstream Obscurity: Their hit single "Headhunter" made Front By Front the best selling album in the history of Wax Trax! Records, landed them at #13 on the Billboard dance charts, and continues to perform well on streaming services. Their subsequent album, Tyranny (For You), was their first release on a major label and became their highest charting album to date, reaching #95 on the Billboard 200. While Front 242 remain a well known and highly regarded name in the electronic/industrial scene, they don't have the same recognition among the general public as groups like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry.
• Music to Invade Poland to: Due to their rigid, somewhat militaristic sound and the fact that a handful of their songs are in German, they've been accused of being Fascists. Totally unfounded- their political beliefs lean towards the other end of the spectrum, in fact...
• Sampled Up: Their song "Headhunter" is their best known song, but the Brazilian funk song "Cerol na Mão" by Bonde do Tigrão that samples the synth riff from this song has a significant bigger number of views on YouTube. This song is so much known that most of the comments featured in the original song are from Brazilians, mentioning the lyrics from "Cerol na Mão", that has nothing to do with the original song.
  • The band even tried to sue Bonde do Tigrão in 2003 claiming the group didn't pay royalties to the song's sample, but years later they still used to perform the song with that sample.
  • For the curiosity of some people, the lyrics from "Cerol na Mão" is close to have no meaning; it uses "ão" to rhyme almost anything (even the group's name), and even some words that don't even use "ão" as last syllable in that language.

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