Does This Obscure Record Sound Like New Order’s “Blue Monday” to You?

Did New Order blatantly cop the groove for “Blue Monday” from obscure minimalist Manchester new wave novelty act, Gerry & the Holograms?
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Championed by Frank Zappa during a 1980 BBC Radio 1 guest disc jockey stint (as well as 1979 radio spot on WPIX in New York and The Dick Cavett Show), Gerry & the Holograms (who consisted of a guy named John Scott, and CP Lee of Manchester-based 70s comedy-rock group, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias) put out this Residents-influenced piss-take on the synthpop bands that would have been emerging then, like Soft Cell or The Human League.

Zappa referred to Gerry & the Holograms as “the hottest thing to come out of Manchester in at least 15 minutes.”

Here’s Blue Monday for your comparisons.

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The Past 30 Years of Record Sales (US)

Click on the link and go to the original post from Digital Music News for comments and all the 30 pie charts.

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The First 25 Years Of Def Jam Records

Russell Simmons Talks About Meeting Rick Rubin For The First Tim. This is in support of the upcoming book, Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label, available September 20.

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After the Pac Man cookie cutters now comes the Pac Man nails!

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Manuel Göttsching - Quiet Nervousness (1981)

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I’m surprised by how gorgeous this is, but am not surprised by how utterly contemporary it sounds. The biggest surprise is realizing that this song exists, and I knew nothing about it. As  tristn says:

so this is the sound of one german guitarist basically inventing techno AND fully realizing its potential in 1981. i think it’s like the greatest thing in the world right now.

So I listened to this album nonstop for about five days last week. I napped to it, studied to it, even ran to it, timing my breaths to my own pretend lyrics: ee two ee four, ee two ee four, etc. That’s the name of the album: E2E4. It’s a chess gambit, and when LCD Soundsystem first released 45:33, the checkboard pattern on the cover is an homage to Göttsching’s own album-long song.

I think I read someone comparing this to Kraftwerk which annoys me because this is really sumptuous and pretty and not all awkward or self-conscious as KW. Even at their very best—Computer World—you still had stupid techno-novelty tracks or them waxing dramatic about being mechanical and inhuman and then trying to sound mechanical and inhuman. But this, just feels so very different.

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Salma & Sabina Agha – Mitha Maze Dar (Dancing Queen, ABBA cover)

80s asian, bollywood like cover of Dancing Queen

Hands at Gigs

Changing audience habits in live shows the last half century. 

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - ‘Chelsea’

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Crystal Castles – Not In Love (Feat. Robert Smith)

Super Mario Bros Coin Sound music composition (1985)

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