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Decent audio and video, but it would have been better to be there. UNKLE is a bit of a musical anomaly. It's like a project that keeps being developed over time, ever evolving and moving in several directions at once. "Broken" may be the most under-rated of their works. I never get tired of ...

@CarterTheFearless - Yes, I am. And, I do drugs every day.

@babitrans1304 - Agora, tenhu saudades do Rio...

(yawn)

This is what started it all in the US. I remember clearly the first time I heard this on my scratchy AM radio and said to myself, you've got to get this record. Little did I know that the album on which this song was etched was a treasure of new sounds. For the older geefs that followed 50s En...

Excellent choices. You captured the Beatles mystique, magic, and mastery of creating a musical mood that will never be duplicated. 500 years from now, they will still be playing these songs.

This sounds and looks like a country singer trying to sing hard rock. Oh, wait... it IS!

A fashion malfunction only to be outdone by the really horrendous audio of this clip. Or, it could just be a really bad song. Probably the latter. "I'm not your robot" and two chords. Are you kidding me? Miley at her worst...or close to it.

@SunFlightx Trance is supposed to be boring...in a compelling sort of way. You have to pay attention to the layering or you lose the point. Drugs probably help.

@EimaiTrelooos OK, you're a junkie. So?

Worthy of having a movie made after it, even though the movie has nothing at all to do with the lyrics. In my opinion, not one of their best, but it's still true to the PsyFirs' style with some unusual discordance. The sax riff was a big mistake, which is maybe why whoever posted this version c...

I downloaded the lyrics to this and it still doesn't make any sense, not that any of the Firs' songs need to. Great to hear Brits that don't drop their accent - kudos for pronoucing "fade" as "fide". Interesting that the ghost inside is female. A quinticential eighties conundrum of music with...

Glam rock without the glam. Genuinely weird, but hauntingly appealing at the same time. The band's name was a bit of a contradition to the times. Most Brit rockers drop the accent when they sing - hat's off to pronoucing the word "face" like "ice" with an "f" in front. Not sure on what plane ...

Great song in the best tradition of The Fixx music and lyrics. They always had a great way of the lyrics and the rhythm/melody matching perfectly. (How many songs have you heard and said "great music, stupid lyrics" and vice-versa? They weren't by The Fixx.) The Kings of Alternate.

The wombatster counts this among his "Essential Eighties". The Fixx were an amazing group, perhaps misunderstood, and highly underrated by buying masses - although often praised as groundbreakers of by the insider music community. The subtle terror of both the music and the lyrics stylistically...

One of the great teenage love-and-lust pieces of all pop-rock history. The video is not that great (except for the scene at the locker), but the song itself is a masterful combination of sticky-sweet teen-age fantasy ("dance until we die", "live forever"), a can't-lose pounding riff that underli...

The Wombatster can't stay away from this song in any format. Sometimes, gotta read the lyrics as the magic flows through my ear buds. I could live in this.......

@cmf4321 Oh

Multi-track, first made available in the early sixties, changed pop music forever. But, it took a back seat to extreme technological advances in the late seventies and beyond. This is a perfect example of what can be accomplished with mullt-track and over-dub and, yes, a reel-to-reel tape recor...

Amazing what technology can let us do these days. I should have thought of this when I was 15.

@LisaO74 - I have to listen to it about every two weeks. One of the best produced rock-pop song ever recorded!

At 15, I was probably this short, but I sure wasn't this clever. I want to know what this kid is doing in 10 years.

The quintessential 'garage song'. Beats out My Sharona.