YMMV / Art of Noise

• Accidental Innuendo: It's debatable exactly how accidental "(Five Fingers of) Love" (from Daft) is, especially given it being a slower, piano-based remix of "Moments in Love" with the addition of whispering and lip smacking sounds.
• Eclipsed by the Remix: The 7" remix of "Paranoimia" with Matt Frewer as Max Headroom on vocals is far better known than the original instrumental version, despite the fact that most releases of In Visible Silence don't include it (either using the instrumental mix or the 12" version with completely different lyrics).
• Periphery Demographic: The band was hugely influential on the early Hip-Hop scene, something the group had more or less no interaction with or apparent interest in, eventually leading to Rakim appearing as a guest vocalist on The Seduction of Claude Debussy. Modern music analysts even retroactively classify the collective as Instrumental Hip Hop as a result of their music's close proximity to and major influence on the hip-hop scene.
• Replacement Scrappy: A lot of fans neither like nor acknowledge the 1999 iteration of the group (with Lol Creme) as being "really" Art of Noise— in particular the music in places sounds closer to drum and bass, with the addition of spoken word and a unifying concept, and more of an emphasis on orchestral arrangements rather than sampling.
• Sampled Up: All the time.
  • "Beat Box" in particular has been sampled to death, largely because of how ridiculously influential it proved to be.
  • Probably the most famous sample is the repeated "hey" from "Close (to the Edit)" in "Firestarter", for which the entire band received a writing credit.

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