Performed here by the 5.6.7.8s, a Japanese all-female trio who also played it live in a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill 1 (2003), this song was originally released by The Rock-A-Teens in 1959.
Daily Archives: September 30, 2013
le tigre – get off the internet
“Free your ass and your mind will follow” (with a nod to George Clinton).
What HAS changed since this song came out in 2001 is that you don’t have to go offline to take to the streets anymore. ;)
fischerspooner – emerge
“Hyper-media-ocrity”
A decade ago, you couldn’t go out in Cape Town on a Friday for about a year without hearing this somewhere (or, as a DJ, being begged to play it by punters). It was HUGE.
Appearing on the performance art/electroclash duo Fischerspooner’s first album #1, “Emerge” was released as a single three times: first in 2001 on International Deejay Gigolo Records then by FS Studios/Ministry of Sound in 2002, and on Capitol in 2003.
poly styrene – virtual boyfriend
From the ex-X-Ray-Spex icon’s last album, Generation Indigo, released in March 2011, a month before her death at 53 of breast cancer.
anarchy in the uk
the trashwomen – batteries
fleurmach 