5 years before The Blue Nile/Linn's romantic extravaganza, The Flying Lizards "Money" demonstrates sparse construction using unusual noises and instrument/voice sounds into a weird overall effect that was already so well known to 1979 pop music audience that their pastiche of it was a commercial success.
Gav, HiNRG involves the specific galloping bass line (dum dudlum dum dudlum) on a 4-square disco beat that Win's "You've Got The Power" does not employ.
And then Tom introduced the next music video in a salacious Glaswegian ad-voice-over tone.
5 years before The Blue Nile/Linn's romantic extravaganza, The Flying Lizards "Money" demonstrates sparse construction using unusual noises and instrument/voice sounds into a weird overall effect that was already so well known to 1979 pop music audience that their pastiche of it was a commercial success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVuSYUNAekc
Listen carefully to the instrumental interludes.
Gav, HiNRG involves the specific galloping bass line (dum dudlum dum dudlum) on a 4-square disco beat that Win's "You've Got The Power" does not employ.
And then Tom introduced the next music video in a salacious Glaswegian ad-voice-over tone.
"When I want quality 80s HiNRG, I choose Divine."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd2Gzkkwe9Q