The Normal - Warm Leatherette

[MrSzaxx]

Still as good as it was in the seventies.

[TRASHLAB]

!!!

... and after this one, go straight to "accident in paradise". ^^

[countrybwoy420]

Join the car crash set,yeaa baby yaa.

[vlado544]

quick! let's make love

[phantomjackalope1]

Classic.

[patriots2595]

this song sucks...

[getlayed626]

@patriots2595 fuck off...this song is pure genious! house music at its finest!

[patriots2595]

@getlayed626 this isnt even close to house music lol... its like a guy talking over a crappy robotic sound...

[gavinp72]

this is the birth of british house music!!!!.....excellent!!

[zebraattack]

A message to all the people who don't like this song...This song is supposed to creep you the fuck out out. It's supposed to make you uncomfortable. I mean it's based off a book where people are sexually turned on by being in car crashes for christs sake..

[TheCandice40]

wow, i'm a teen again! riding to the club in the back o me mates van! good times! ya!!!

[Hot80s]

sounds like a good song to whip your partner to or be whipped.

[MSolomon751]

I made it to 30 seconds before I burst into laughter

[Ni5ei]

I guess a lot of people started reading JG Ballard after this and this record sounds so far ahead of its time. I'm sure it influenced John Foxx when he was recording Metamatic.

[chipdrusano]

Sounds like a bug zapper!

[mangin23]

this is the song that got me to read ballard,and the uk has a huge selection of great writers,i love the banality of this song

[p433rmeyafreakin00bs]

this song creeps me out, and it's not even really a song..

[MennoMmM]

@millerttj27

I thought that as well...

I <3 both

[DementedDegsy]

I still have this on vinyl !

[overmodulating]

@DementedDegsy wanna sell it?

[DementedDegsy]

@overmodulating hahah you aint got the money I would want for it sorry !

[DementedDegsy]

@overmodulating hahahahhaha you don't have enough money I would want for it sorry !

[derek1969able]

i played it over jibjab351 and over, then i crashed

it was 1977.......

[mangin23]

@derek1969able it crashed that in its self is beauty

[millertj27]

I always thought Grace Jones first did this song!

[ValorousValkyrie]

The uploaded description is how I explain this.

[brando6388]

what the hell is this? you cant fight to it...you cant dance to it...you cant fuck to it. This is music for robots and cattle or something.

[ZaprehikZoo]

@brando6388 this is music for people with IQ higher then 2

then it's NOT for U!

:p

[LittleEmoDancer]

@brando6388 I don't see the problem. Music for robots is the best kind of music, particularly if it's all electronic music for robots.

[watcher818]

@brando6388 I'd rather listen to this, than most of the garbage today they call music. If you don't like the song, go elsewhere.

[demelumeestermad]

@brando6388 cattle~!! bahaha, nice

[brando6388]

@demelumeestermad seriously! i cant believe anyone likes this. 

[demelumeestermad]

@brando6388 hahah i can see its weird but i kinda dig it :p hypnotic kinda.. i dunno hehe

[llamafarmer7]

TVOD

[engelsgleich72]

i know this song when he came out

[jibjab351]

I remember this track, promoted by John Peel on his radio show, 1977 I think. I bought the single, played it over and over again...then I died.

[TheTimijK]

J.G.

[SantaAnaBanana13]

LUVeDoVe-E

[desertrat218]

I have this on a tape somewhere from my younger days, recorded off the Rodney on the Roq radio show.

[Bacopa68]

Thumbs up if you think this is the best song of 1978.

[TOWNLED66]

i remember waiting for a week to get a copy of this from vibes records in bury , oh the joy when arrived.You do not get that anymore take me back to 1982

[maldoror97]

me teenage, this song, a place playing this song, me half drunk or drugged. Best days in my life.

[leisurelydinner]

i can feel bugs crawling on my brain

[camper182]

the fuck? this is DNB from the 70's

[HighRiseChateau]

@camper182 What's DNB?

[camper182]

@HighRiseChateau drum and bass. an electronic music genre. 

[gombie]

@camper182

Modern day electronic music owes much to Industrial and EBM, alot more than we think.

[deltamode8]

this guy went on to produce depeche mode 8)

[fangsteen]

Is this what Ive been missing??

I think it was!!

[MRTTVD]

the fuck is this?

[BoysLikeMeee]

@MRTTVD Obviously some good music, you missed out on bud!

[duqmiguel]

See the breaking-glass in the under-pass . . hear the crushing-steel, feel the steering-wheel . .

[katrastrophy]

Warm...leather Rats

[babah77088]

I'M WARM

[sfalusi1]

WOW this song brings me back...... Monica if you are out there look me up on Facebook it would be great to catch up an compare the last 25 years of life, this song so reminds me of you.. for no real reason other than you gave me a tape with this on it, i listened to that tape until it broke...... Thank you YouTUBE for being there and allowing me to re-live my past at the speed of the internet... as I'm on the soap box. Thank you Steve Jobs for doing all that you did !!

[TheFinlandnator]

Wear a seatbelt..?

[pantyflash]

--- a tear of petrol is in your eye; the handbrake penetrates your thigh; quick, let's make love, before you die --- Like, you go, girl!

[pdox23]

Amazing! I'm still in awe of this after 44 years of existance, LOVE IT!

[29lowell]

Wishing I was dancing to this song @ Neo, (sigh) there's no place like Neo for me to go to in Oakland.

[sallyfieldrequired]

quick let's make love, before you die.

[Glowb0t]

warm leatherette melts on your burning flesh, you can see your reflection in the luminescent dash.

[whotaughtyou]

CHIN

[quadralerium]

Long time, no hear, wow. A little sparse on the lyrics, used to sound great in the clubs.

[annaannamusic]

This is incredible. Daniel Miller is a genius. Such a simple song. So perfect. Thank god for Youtube, seriously.

[thecoldheart2012]

A classic - very stunning! Love this track.

[djmusicjac]

awesome, "my cup of tea"

[digitaldave1234]

WUM. LEATHERETTE.

[Glowb0t]

@digitaldave1234 hahhhahhaha

[347cc]

Wow..havnt heard this for a long time.class stuff.

[greenvelvetcurtains]

What a simply brilliant track!.

There is loads of great 70's / 80's electronic music I am recently finding (thanks to the power of you tube) floating about that just sounds really amazing. My favourite is Charnajit Singh - Synthesizing; Ten Raggas to A Disco Beat a bunch of tunes from 1982 pre-dating acid house by 5 years or so. great stuff!

[ashsweetjones]

don't care when it came out or who is responsible for the original. I concur with thescreamsmusic...Brings back brilliant memories!



[thescreamsmusic]

Brings back brilliant memories - blew me away when I first heard it.

[spartanstoiker]

I won't sell my original copy of MUTE1 for no money.

Lifeshaking for my sake.

Only love can get this.

[TheArbiterBibendi]

Quick, let's make love, Daniel Miller.

[Deepwatermusic]

26 people that didn't like this are going to hell.

[burntrobot]

I too remember this whilst stationed in Germany back in the early 90's at the OHM club in Mannheim.

[Angelinvader]

Höre ich immer wieder gerne~~~~--

[uVme1game]

Ive got the original of this somewhere...MUTE 1 i prefare the other side TVOD..but as for groundbreaking, it sure was !! these sounds are still being used now and classed as " the new sound".... get real, these guys had it in the bag all those years back. :o) QUALITY

[PAULBLUNTZER]

I know you're bleeding to death, but.... can we make love one last time before you cancel your Birth Certificate??

[TheSantaclara1]

25 people don't like the part where he says warm........leatherette

[snowblind309]

It's fascinating how instead of replying "You don't know what you're talking about because this track was groundbreaking and synth music was still in its infancy and...", you guys are forced to reply with "GO FUCK YOURSELF FAGGOT" because there is nothing to defend about your shit taste in music.

[lobomango1]

hehehohohaha....!

[goby999]

No US FM radio station ends in an even number. Therefore your story is false. (just kidding... it was 106.7) :)

[1971SuperLead]

@goby999 Oh, 106.7....that's right....well....I was pretty stoned.

[1971SuperLead]

It was 1978 and I was just 19. I would sit in my car every morning before work started and smoke buds from Hawaii while secretly listening to this song on 106.6 KROQ. I remember hearing this song every morning while being stoned out of my mind.

Ah, the good ol' daze.

[culturphile]

Nineteen-Seventy-Freeking-Eigh­t!!!!

Amazing I discovered this back in 2002 while driving on the Glendale freeway overlooking DTLA.

This guy is the founder of Mute Records.

[TheKifrob]

this is where the bored singer with synth guy in the background started.

[emlix96]

@TheKifrob hahahaha, youtube comment of the year.

[TheROBRV]

Cheers everyone for a good little read....

[ManInRoom5]

I don't normally do these stupid comments about the dislikes but this one is too obvious. 24 PEOPLE NEED TO DIE IN A CAR CRASH.

[fmj45]

heh, i remember singing this when i was little, not fully realizing what it was describing.

[ChoppedBeatz]

23 users have a Cold Leatherette.

[VIKINGxDNA]

How Much would yu think this 45 is worth. i have a copy but the jacket is a little worn ?

[jumma71]

@VIKINGxDNA

Is it the original 1978 version or a later repress ?

[g173df]

Oh yes.

[djmusicjac]

awesome, i love when electropop has old school ebm influences, this is why i like the 80s

[snowblind309]

No, this is a shit song. It's a dude who sounds uninterested saying two words with some elementary lyrics over two sawtooth notes on a synth. This isn't music in any sense of the term "music". This is terrible, horrible bullshit being passed off as groundbreaking under the term "experimental" and it's not like I'm a closed minded either. Maybe it was ahead of its time; but if in 200 years, shitting on your head is what all artists do, and I do it today, I'm still shitting on my head.

[metronomic1]

@snowblind309 You have no fucking clue...

[VIKINGxDNA]

@snowblind309 lol You are only 41 .

What an ignorant post.

This was back in the DAY.

You were still sucking on your mothers pot soaked breast milk when this was hot.

This was part of the KROQ line up when Rodney on the ROCK was in his glory.

just shows me that you are nothing more than a trolling POSER and a born to late wanna-be. lol GO FUCK YOURSELF.

[MrxChow]

@snowblind309

So basically what you said is

"I am a huge faggot please rape my face"

This track is boss

[astanhope]

Check out the Grace Jones version.

[PopCulture20]

GRACE JONES OWNS THIS SONG!!! BOW DOWN TO MISS JONES!!! THE ORIGINATOR!!!

[chrometoaster]

@PopCulture20 um.. sorry, popculture.. grace's album came out in '80. the normal's was released in '78.

[TheSpikefm]

@PopCulture20 Actually she doesn't. The song was written in a night club. The two guys went on to form a record company that discovered Depeche Mode. The Normal was a laugh, a joke, but has since become a classic. Warm Leatherette is the same. I know, I wrote it!!!!

[PopCulture20]

@TheSpikefm yeah sure you did LOL!!

[thescreamsmusic]

@PopCulture20 I like Gracie but in this instance I think you'll find she is in fact not.

[djstatik1]

How this track never made it into Cronenberg's movie "Crash" with James Spader I'll never know. It's like they took this song and made a movie out of it!

[lbaeza]

10 PRINT "WARM LEATHERETTE ";: GOTO 10

[duqmiguel]

Nothing like English Madness, with an High British accent.

[jrmetmoi]

Me Without You

[rossman1rb]

quick- lets make love- before you die

[mutepg58]

The first Mute record. Daniel Miller : proprietor and facilitator of unique music from day 1 to now. Best. record label. ever.

[fynlinemusic]

what a pile of poop

[AshleyMarkPomeroy]

I love the middle eight, at 1:25.

[fluelssss]

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[dirtyguindilla]

J G Ballard

[whotaughtyou]

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[raymondmiloshIII]

I like the part where he says Warm Leatherette

[hasbeen2012]

@raymondmiloshIII cause you know style dude style

[wangobangodango]

@raymondmiloshIII i like the part where he gets his ass kicked by some homophobic guys 

[whotaughtyou]

APPOINTMENT

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BACKSTRAP usb TRAVELOGUE

[MrFichot]

It`s one of the best songs of all times. Coverd by Grace Jones, Sleep Camber and many more.

This song is history !

[Actinid23]

hey, it's this song that vitalic remixed on his album ok cowboys ?

it sounds really good, i prefer the original !! ;-)

[CharizardPants]

Dear Mr. Sepe,

If you see this comment, please stop playing this at the beginning of 3rd period.

I think it's actually starting to burn a hole in my hypothalamus, causing me to not be able to feel the warmth of said leatherette. Also, I have no idea what the point of this song is, besides someone burning.. In a car.. Or something.

See you third period.

-Kelly

[iloveesr]

omg i had this on vinyl lol

[jorgedean1]

adam corrolla's old radio show would make fun of this track, its funny, I dig! hahahahaa

[bradwatson7324]

So... What precisely IS a leatherette?

[BBrannum]

@bradwatson7324, fake leather.

[bradwatson7324]

So... What precisely IS a leatherette? I'm dying to know.

[zidmt]

I grew up in LA in the 80's and listened to songs like this on KROQ, this brings me back to the days/nights of me and my friends hanging out in our garage smoking some j's.

[jimpanzer07]

old new wave classic

[ergottwins]

you can't possibly "reinvent" art...just as this single does not demonstrate the "reinvention" of music...and uh..just a side note: ever listened to john cage? varese? la monte young? i don't think this is too radical in light of what those composers accomplished

[aeunuchsthroat]

@ergottwins

You can't be serious. John Cage? I call shenanigans. I call troll.

[ergottwins]

@aeunuchsthroat

well.. now it wouldn't be in allmusic's similar artists section under 'the normal,' surely. but think a bit deeper lad. and in the meantime maybe listen to more j cage?

[frafroudaki]

@ergottwins and if get bored with j cage, check out THomas Leer & The Normal, their gig on 1978..It's a smashing 20 or so (can't recall) minutes recording of the birth of cabarretpostindustrialwave!!!

[33rerre33]

As non-native english speaker, I wonder what is it with this song that makes it so special? Is it some cultural reference thats lost to listeners of any other time other than the time-window of release? Is it something in the text of the song thats so slang/phrase/obscured language that only native speakers can relate to the lyrics? Or is it necessary to listen to it to the end? Seems pretty boring to me though, and not monotonous enough for my taste, if that was the goal. But then again, 70s ^^

[16NostalgicdreamS]

@33rerre33 I can't correctly answer that question since I was born in 92 but my guess is that what Miller was doing with The Normal was revolutionary and reflected the new do-it-yourself attitude of the youth who utilized music to express their discontent with society. What art is supposed to be.

[ssballs]

@33rerre33 Ever been in an accident?Detached and bloody?It can be boring or it can be the last thrill you'd experience.It's all up to the situation and you.Just let it wash over you,like GUSHING BLOOD.

[BetonyGreggan]

I like Grace Jones' version too.

[evilrobottolhurst]

MUTE 001. What are they up to now, I wonder?

[rlnilson]

This isn't normal. :D

[r0ll1ng3r]

Early 80s Hymn! I loveit. Loud and sharp!

[tommyboy1861]

It's been about 31 years since I first/last heard this. Was with 3 other Air Force buddies in a car doing 90+ miles an hour from Castle AFB to DLI Presidio of Monterey when this came on the radio. I think it was KLBS Los Banos. It obviously left an impression.

[seandevega]

@tommyboy1861 I went to DLI as well. Fancy seeing other cryppies on here ;)

[joeblowthehot]

@tommyboy1861 holy crap!

[izonmusic]

Still sounds as BIG as ever - PIONEERS OF GREATNESS

[pruittj001]

Wasn't this Daniel Miller, the guy who produced Depeche Mode?

[RugbyFootballer]

@pruittj001  Yuppers that the same feller

[xingyiboxer]

Thanks for posting!

[0The0Web0]

absolute classic! produced 1978 and never outdated !! something for my fav box, no doubt :-) *****

[407greg]

i would like to walk on the runway with this track for a Fashion Show By John Galliano Mens. 2011 or 2012. Be on The Look For Gregory Alexander Male Model From Orlando,Fl

[thoughtkriminal]

is it just me or is there a slight tempo change in this song?

[Robbie641]

@thoughtkriminal ya i noticed it too



[mrbug825]

This song was way ahead of its time. We mock that which we do not understand.

[EvilDoctor1]

For those that are curious this song is actually a homage to J.G. Ballard's novel "Crash"

[drewly87]

if you use the phrase "take it to the next level" you can't be new wave. art is not a board meeting.

[supermandisco]

@BellumSacrumBellum28 I was smoking angel dust while listening to this, is that also part of the fggt syndrome?? If so, it was still tough.

[bielbenken]

This is the original AND the first record on Mute.

Daniel Miller H.i.E.

[botzimektet]

is this thee original?

[mrshapplymarried]

didn't grace jones do this song?

[slobomotion]

This was the perfect song to hear in the Mudd Club. I never bought it because I couldn't keep up with all the great music then, my roomie owned it, and I could hear it at Mudd.

[clemzzz]

was this the first record on "MUTE"?

[Kaaawanga]

@clemzzz Yes "Mute001"

[botzimektet]

@clemzzz no

[mrbug825]

definitely a "one of a king " song. one that has never left my mind. and i still love it! A tear of petro is in your eye. This is where techno got started! a simple hook. just add a pounging beat to it. Walla. A song well before it's time.

[astridbenet]

Just let go and crash your car.

[inexorableveracity]

this is the dumbest shit. ever.