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Blip Transmission #47

Information Society/What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)

I was hoping to find the original version with the original video, but the video dubbed with a remix will have to suffice. I absolutely LOVED this song, and even though it’s so very dated now, both musically and visually (spandex bicycle shorts, anyone?), the song still is a great track that you can totally go nuts on the dance floor with.

Blip Transmission #46

Otis Redding/Try A Little Tenderness

Whenever I hear this song, I automatically thing of Duckie from Pretty In Pink lip-synching along. It’s an amazing movie music moment, and it can’t help but put a smile on your face. Oh, Andie, why did you have to go for Blaine?

Blip Transmission #45

Murray Head/One Night in Bankok

When this song came out, I was all but 10 or 11 the song was so oddly alluring to me. An unlikely pop song with its talk-singing and chess-ridden lyrics, it became very dated, very quickly.

Blip Transmission #44

Depeche Mode/It’s No Good

The period after Songs of Faith and Devotion was quite an uncertain one for Depeche Mode, since Alan Wilder left, and Dave Gahan was on the verge of collapse from his addictions. When Ultra finally came out, it was a true return to form - a dark album that is one of their best, most confessional albums to date. This video, directed by longtime collaborator Anton Corbijn, portrays DM as a sleazy lounge act - while tongue in cheek, DM has always been on the darker side of pop.

Blip Transmission #43

Pat Benatar/Wuthering Heights

Great cover of the Kate Bush classic. I don’t really think anyone else could really pull this one off. This was never a single, so this video is pretty much a compilation of other videos.

Blip Transmission #42

Nitzer Ebb/Join In The Chant

The first time I heard Nitzer Ebb, I was in high school and my jaw dropped. I always loved electronic music, and this was harsh, mechanic, and aggressive. I was a total non-conformist in high school and this was one of the bands that really got me into industrial (which was really still quite a new and small genre at the time). They were also one of the opening acts at the first concert I went to, Depeche Mode at Giants Stadium in 1990.

Blip Transmission #41

Weezer/Undone (The Sweater Song)

This was the first song I heard from Weezer, and I loved it. It was everything I loved about indie rock, but with a power pop sensibility and it got stuck in my head like glue. Weezer’s “Blue Album” could be credited with the American indie/emo explosion in music over the past decade to a certain degree.

Blip Transmission #40

The Rolling Stones/She’s A Rainbow

This is one of those songs that I would definitely put on the soundtrack to my life. The thing I love most about the track are the lovely transitions along with the absolute joyful spirit that I feel every single time I hear it.

THE ROLLING STONES SHE’S A RAINBOW (via richie523)

Blip Transmission #39

Benny Benassi Presents The Biz/Satisfaction

In the early half of this decade, a “new” new wave started to emerge out of the clubs, blending house with 80s sheen and some very slight mechanical industrial ice. It was electroclash. Benny Benassi would certainly come across more on the electro house side of the spectrum, but this track was a floor filler at all the electroclash clubs in the ‘Burg.

benny benassi - satisfaction (via djosck)

Blip Transmission #38

Duran Duran/Hungry Like The Wolf

Any girl like me who grew up in the 80s totally had their favorite Duranie. Me, I had a total thing for Nick Rhodes, while my friends vied for the affections of Simon Le Bon or the Taylors. In the early 80s, I distinctly remember watching American Bandstand with Dick Clark who proclaimed that the “second British invasion” was dawning. At the time, it seemed very accurate - so many bands infiltrated the airwaves from across the pond and many American acts started to hawk faux-British accents to get airplay. “Hungry Like The Wolf” is still an amazing track, complete with the “do do do do” chorus and the faint moaning at the end.