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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.

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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

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