What are you listening to?

Not About Food
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from the “Hey, I didn’t know that was a cover!” files. These are the originals.

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oooo! good ones!

Sting wrote this for Zenyatta Mondatta but never recorded it, and gave it Grace Jones for her 1981 album ‘Nightclubbing’.

The Police then put their version on 1981’s Ghost in the Machine. So technically, their version is the cover…

I remember seeing Jones’ version of this on MTV in my very early teens. It gave me… feelings.

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pre-Go-Go’s:

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Not sure if this counts, since it was cowritten by members of both groups, but this is certainly less well known in the US:

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This has nothing to do with covers but sent me down a rabbit-hole of long forgotten oddball videos I remember that few others seem to:

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Go-Go’s version was released in June of 1981. The FB3 version in April of 1983. And now, on with the countdown…

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tracks:
0:47 “The Robots”
7:40 “Numbers”
10:36 “Computer World”
13:50 “Home Computer”
19:56 “Computer Love”
24:24 “The Man Machine”
29:50 “The Model”

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And thanks for the Kraftwerk, Mr. L!

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And now for something different:

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Early synth

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I Want to Take You Higher by Ike and Tina Turner and the Ikettes on The Vinyl Fontier, MTPR’s Freeforms Show.

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Listening to the French online radio station Fip again.

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Beautiful cover of Sister Sledge’s original which I had posted earlier. Found through Jose Padilla (Spanish dj who died in 2020).

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