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The Normal
Primary
members: Daniel Miller
Band
Biography
Album/songs of focus: Warm Leatherette EP (1978), "Warm Leatherette" and "TV O.D."
"Warm Leatherette"
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See the breaking glass In the underpass See the breaking glass In the underpass Warm leatherette Hear the crushing steel Warm leatherette Warm leatherette |
Warm leatherette Melts on your burning flesh You can see your reflection In the luminescent dash Warm leatherette A tear of petrol On warm leatherette |
"TV O.D."
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TV O.D. (9x) I don't need a TV screen I just stick the aerial into my skin Let the signal run through my veins TV O.D. TV O.D. (9x)
I don't need a TV screen TV O.D. TV O.D. (12x) |
The Future (aka The Human League)
Primary
members: Martyn Ware, Ian Marsh, Phil Oakey
Band
Biography
Album/songs of focus: The Golden Hour of The Future (1978), "4JG"
"4JG" (instrumental)
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"Path of Least Resistance" (live on BBC TV, 1979)
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Faced with the choice What would you say? The path of least resistance It seems the only way But can we look a little further? The safe method, the only way Feel wanted, feel numb |
So sad, the early grave When all the fun's for free Start digging the early grave And keep it warm for me Faced with the choice But let's look a little further The safe method, the only way Feel wanted, feel numb |
Gary Numan
Band
Biography
Album/songs of focus: The Pleasure Principle (1979), "Asylum" and "Cars"
"Asylum" |
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"Cars"
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Here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors It's the only way to live in cars
Here in my car
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Here in my car Where the image breaks down Will you visit me please If I open my door in cars
Here in my car
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John Foxx
Band
Biography
Album/songs of focus: Metamatic (1980), "Plaza" and "Underpass"
"Plaza"
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On the plaza We're dancing slowly lit like photographs Across the plaza Toward the shadow of the cenotaph
Down escalators, come to the sea view
Across the plaza
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Down escalators, come to the sea view Behind the smoked glass no one sees you A familiar figure comes to meet you I remember your face from some shattered windscreen From the plaza The highways curve in over reservoirs On the plaza A queue is forming for the cinemas Down escalators, come to the sea view Behind the smoked glass no one sees you A familiar figure comes to meet you I remember your face from some shattered windscreen On the plaza (Repeat and fade)
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"Underpass"
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Standing in the dark Watching you glow Lifting a receiver Nobody I know Underpass Underpass Well I used to remember Now it's all gone World War something We were somebody's sons Underpass Underpass |
Over all the bridges Echoes in rows Talking at the same time Click click drone Underpass Underpass Misty on the glass now Rusty on the door Here for years now Click click drone Click click drone Click click drone Click click drone Click click Underpass |
Joy Division
Primary
members: Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris
Band
Biography
Album/songs of focus: Unknown Pleasures (1979), "Disorder" and Closer (1980), "Atrocity Exhibition"
"Disorder" (recorded live, 2 May 1980)
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I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man? The sensations barely interest me for another day I've got the spirit, lose the feeling, take the shock away It's getting faster, moving faster now, |
What means to me, what means to you, and we will meet again, I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I'll take no pity from your friends Who is right, who can tell, and who gives a damn right now I've got the spirit, lose the feeling Let it out somehow I've got the spirit, lose the feeling Let it out somehow I've got the I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling! I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling! Lose the feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling... |
"Atrocity Exhibition"
(Note: Before Ballard wrote Crash he wrote The Atrocity Exhibition, published in 1970) |
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Asylums
with doors open wide Where people could pay to see inside For entertainment they watch his body twist Behind his eyes he says: I still exist This is the way - step inside In
arenas he kills for a prize This
is the way |
You'll
see the horrors of a faraway place Meet the architects of law face to face See mass murder on a scale you've never seen And all the ones who try hard to succeed This is the way - step inside And I picked on the whims of a thousand or more |