On Heavy Rotation (what are you listening to?)

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Cornelio
popfop
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mq1XPAzjJhQ

" The German producer duo hit it big when their bizarre and disturbing single "Why Can The Bodies Fly" was used as the memorable soundtrack for a 1982 episode of popular TV-crime program "Tatort" (Crime-scene). In the now classic episode, "Peggy hat Angst" (Peggy is afraid), the killer listens to the song over and over while playing bongos. He terrorizes women by playing the song over the phone late at night. He finally kills one of his victims (a fashion-model) while she is on the phone talking to a model-friend. We only hear the music blaring through the speaker overlaid with the screams of the dying woman. On the next day, people stormed the record-stores demanding the single which soon climbed to #11 in the charts.This spooky novelty song with its totally disembodied voices and hilariously “dark” lyrics is a lost classic. Outside of doom-metal you won't hear a voice like that (well, Laibach comes to mind... but i get the point) and even today "Why Can The Bodies Fly" sounds as strange as it did in 1982.Take KISS in their disco-phase, bury with Italo disco and Munich Machine and witness the missing link between Amanda Lear and The Sisters of Mercy rising from it's disco grave."

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Niccolo and Donkey
O'Zebedee

Good cuts I'd never heard of, thanks - love the Eric B and PE name drop in the Twin Hype track.

Niccolo and Donkey
Twin Hype is from the very, very brief era of "Hip House" in which Hip Hop and House crossed over. That must have been around 1988-89. The song most associated with that movement is this one:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/embed/AFGhQSiGHWM
Klaatu
el greco
popfop
Niccolo and Donkey