ROCK Sex: "Strict Machine" - Norman Greenbaum + Donna Summer = Goldfrapp

ROCK Sex says Culture is 1 + 2 = 3.

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How culture works.



One cool thing...

NORMAN GREENBAUM -"Spirit in the Sky" (1969)




...plus another cool thing...

DONNA SUMMER -"I Feel Love" (1977)



...equals a new cool thing.

GOLDFRAPP -"Strict Machine" (2003)




Everybody wins!

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Bonus:

And just to make everything perfect, the T-Rex/Glam Rock swagger of "Strict Machine" comes full circle with this genius cover by Suzi Quatro herself!

SUZI QUATRO -"Strict Machine" (2011)




© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• "Good Times!" - Chic > SugarHill Gang > Queen > Defunkt > Ting Tings

• "Soul Makossa" - Manu Dibango > Trovaioli > Michael Jackson

• "Don't Bring Me Down" - Ronnie Dawson > Electric Light Orchestra > Dazz Band > The Hives


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: "Nightclubbing" - Iggy Pop > Human League > Grace Jones > Nine Inch Nails > Oasis

ROCK Sex is going out on the town tonight.

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"Nightclubbing", the proto-Industrial song by Iggy Pop, grew out of his times with David Bowie in the late-'70s Berlin scene.

Electronic and progressive German musicians like Kraftwerk, Neu!, Faust, Kluster, and Can were rethinking the soundscape of modern music. Pop, Bowie, and Brian Eno were among the first to recognize and expand on this profoundly influential movement.

IGGY POP -"Nightclubbing" (1977)


It's been noted that the riff has a sly similarity to "Rock and Roll" by Gary Glitter. Human League must have noticed because they recorded a "Rock'n'Roll/ Nightclubbing" medley.

HUMAN LEAGUE -"Rock'n' Roll/ Nightclubbing" (1980)



Grace Jones was so taken by this song that it became the title track of her breakthrough album.

GRACE JONES -"Nightclubbing" (1981)



Nine Inch Nails used a sample of the kick drum in their big hit.

NINE INCH NAILS -"Closer" (1994)



And Oasis also sampled the drums for this song.

OASIS -"Force of Nature" (2002)



Because you're bound to run into someone you know when you go out, here's Iggy and Grace together bringing the party with them!

IGGY POP and GRACE JONES -"Nightclubbing" (2009)



"We walk like a ghost
We learn dances brand new dances
Like the nuclear bomb
When we're nightclubbing"


© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• "Love Is The Drug" - Roxy Music > Chic > Grace Jones > Duran Duran

• LADIES FIRST: "Demolition Man" - Grace Jones > The Police > Sting

• "I Wanna Be Your Dog!" - The Stooges > Sonic Youth > Las Vulpes > Nirvana

• "You Can't Hurry Love" - The Supremes > Iggy Pop > The Jam > David Bowie

• DOCTOR WHO Theme - Delia Derbyshire > Gary Glitter > KLF > Human League


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: DOCTOR WHO Theme - Delia Derbyshire > Gary Glitter > KLF > Human League

ROCK Sex says "the Doctor is IN!".

Today, an "A + B = C" song chain, featuring the Doctor Who theme.

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One cool thing added to another another cool thing gives you a third cool thing. It's like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the color spectrum, and babies.

Ron Grainger may have composed the theme for "Doctor Who" on paper, but everyone knows it was Delia Derbyshire who performed her sonic wizardry in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to make this Electronic classic what it is.

The true wielder of the sonic screwdriver is Delia.

DELIA DERBYSHIRE -"Doctor Who Theme" (1963)



As a flipside to his Glam Rock single "Rock'n'Roll", Gary Glitter did this epic instrumental. Long before it was massacred by your local sports event. (Gary made a handful of cool songs, but Gary himself...well, that's a sad story.)

GARY GLITTER -"Rock'n'Roll, Part 2" (1972)



And The KLF, under the alias The Timelords, combined the two in this dance club hit.

THE TIMELORDS/ KLF -"Doctorin' the Tardis" (12" version) (1988)


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The youth entranced in the '60s and '70s by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC radiophonic Workshop's eerie textural soundtracks grew up to become New Wave, EDM, and Industrial pioneers. Here's proof in what could have been an alternate theme for DOCTOR WHO, named after the Fourth Doctor himself.

THE HUMAN LEAGUE -"Tom Baker" (1980)





© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!

• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture, with Music Player!


• Kraftwerk > Trouble Funk > Afrika Bambaataa > New Order


• "Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound" documentary
• "The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire" documentary


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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