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computers were popping up everywhere….. Apple and Microsoft were
starting to soar … Blade Runner was in the cinema… and music was
shifting from disco and arena rock to … new wave!
We
were trading in morons like Tony Manero and his Saturday Night Fever
muscle-head nonsense for new & wondrous more cerebral sounds ….
Kraftwerk tapping on their Pocket Calculator
Thomas Dolby getting Blinded by Science
OMD singing of the virtues of Electricity and Tesla Girls
Oingo Boingo getting their Weird Science on
and a little-known band called the Polecats inviting you to … “Make A Circuit With Me” !
The
Polecats were a punky - new wavey - rockabilly band out of London, kind
of a cooler more glam version of the Stray Cats (who would come along
with a very similar routine in the US slightly later). The Polecats
released a fistful of singles, EPs, and an album before a series of
breakups & reunions. Their best song came in 1982 towards the end
of their initial run - a twangy, rocking gem that we used to call the
‘national anthem’ of our engineering college…. “Make A Circuit With Me”.
The lyrics are a what’s what of serious electrical componentry! The
video features the P-Cats running around in some kind of Orwellian
dystopian future to sneak in a band practice and bring a blow-up doll to
life, all Weird-Sciencey-like.
They didn’t last long after this but what a great tune it was for nerds everywhere in 1982!
-WAS
Cute song.
ReplyDeleteThis song is tight! Wasn't familiar with it, I like it.
ReplyDeleteI love introducing folks to "new" songs ... 35 years later :)
ReplyDeleteThere's lots more coming !