What are you listening to?

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

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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I watched and listened to the PBS American Masters program, ‘Little Richard: The King and Queen of Rock and Roll’, last night. Fascinating!

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