It’s got to be Kate Bush
It’s got to be the Nice
It’s got to be the Eagles
And Three Dog Night
It’s got to be Lulu
It’s got to be the Ramones
It’s got to be Pierre Schaefer
And the Rolling Stones
It’s got to be the Beach Boys
It’s got to be Dick Dale
It’s got to be Brian Eno
And John Cale
It’s got to be Organum
It’s got to be the Seeds
It’s got to be the Beatles
Playing with Lou Reed
It’s got to be Iggy
It’s got to be the Cars
It’s got to be Stockhausen
And the Spiders From Mars
It’s got to be the Monkees
It’s got to be Wings
It’s got to be Momus
And his Pretty Things
It’s got to be the Faces
It’s got to be the Clash
It’s got to be Stackridge
And Wishbone Ash
It’s got to be Ian Dury
It’s got to be the Slade
It’s got to be Johnny Winter
Eating Marmalade
It’s got to be Dory Previn
It’s got to be the Rats
It’s got to be Beyonce
And her Stray Cats
It’s got to be the Blockaders
It’s got to be the Skids
It’s got to be Barry White
And his Heavy Metal Kids
It’s got to be Amen Corner
It’s got to be the Fall
It’s got to be Burt Bacharach
And Lynsey De Paul
It’s got to be Hot Chocolate
It’s got to be the Cream
It’s got to be the Sweet
And Tangerine Dream
It’s got to be Delia Derbyshire
It’s got to be Judge Dread
It’s got to be Adam Ant
And his Medicine Head
It’s got to be Scott Walker
It’s got to be UFO
It’s got to be Magama
And Status Quo
It’s got to be Marc Bolan
It’s got to be Mungo Jerry
It’s got to be Billy Idol
And Bryan Ferry!
It’s got to be
It’s got to be
credits
Another sequencer delay line pattern this time with the BPM and delay time just offset enough to allow for a scrolling or combing effect. The sing over produced the beginnings of a list song. Having got the first couple of acts in place I sat down with pencil and paper and sketched in the rest. I decided to not try too hard, there are some contrivances such as the deserts verse “It’s got to be Hot Chocolate, It’s got to be the Cream” etc, but generally I left the associations between acts fall pretty much as they came to mind. Most of the names are from the 1960s and 70s canon with the odd noise act such as The Blockaders and Organum. I can’t remember why I left Storm Bugs out, it would have rhymed nicely with the Fugs. Anyways inspiration wise the list song has many antecedents though if there was a model of sorts for this one it is “friends” by Adam Ant.
This is another track I left to mature for more than 36 weeks in a cool cellar before rerecording the vocoder vocal, and adding further instrumentation: a hand clap pattern (“Three six nine, the goose drank wine. The monkey chew tobacco on the street car line”), drums and in a nod to Kraftwerk’s “Europe Endless” an extra sequencer pattern with romantic strings.
I’m mindful that in including in these sleeve notes the various reference to popular songs I may be overly foregrounding the influences as if they were at the forefront of my mind when putting the tracks together. Whereas it is more the case that having been soaked in popular (and unpopular) music for 60 years they seep out whenever one opens one’s mouth and start to sing over a track
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