Saturday, May 6, 2017
Number 176: Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing
I'm not a fan of bands getting political, usually because it leads to bad music. In the case of Paul Fishman and John Baxter, however, getting political basically wrecked their careers. Their band, Re-Flex, scored a top-30 hit in early 1983 on both the USA and UK charts with "The Politics of Dancing", the title track from their first album. Unfortunately, their follow-up LP Humanication was rejected by their label for being too blatantly left-wing, and they never really recovered. But at least they made #176 on my Top 200. That's got to count for something, right?
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Sounds just like what happened to Hillary...
ReplyDeleteFor some reason this band, along with Wang Chung, never really did it for me... something about both band's singers atonal howling I think
Also... tell me the opening doesn't sound like the start of a Star Trek episode
Spoiler alert! There is some Wang Chung on this top 200.
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