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07/29/2024 - I Wanna Be Your Lover - Episode 015

07/29/2024 - I Wanna Be Your Lover - Episode 015

As promised- WAY FASTER episode posts and higher quality recordings! Today's opening set was inspired by my friend Blake- while visiting this weekend, he mentioned his recent love of Chris Cornell's cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" and suggested the idea of going from Prince to Chris Cornell to RATM. Among other journeys to Iceland, Joshua Tree, and Sam's Town, it became an amazing jumping off point to trace how house, hip hop, post punk, new wave, synth pop, electro, disco, and so much more can be traced to the influence of German "Robot Pop" pioneers, Kraftwerk, and the "Godfather of Disco," Giorgio Moroder. Hope you enjoyed the show!

Bonus Track

Kenny Loggins- Danger Zone - Peak 80's- composed and produced by Giorgio Moroder!

This Week's notes and mentions

  • The original Renegades of Funk by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force
  • V-2 Schnieder - David Bowie's own tribute to Kraftwerk (h/t to my friend Dan O'Connell for this one!)
  • The Man Machine by Kraftwerk - sampled in World in my Eyes
  • An awesome remix of Tom Tom Club's Love to Love You (sampling Q-Tip's Breathe & Stop- I'll use that in an episode one day!)
  • The full version of Love to Love You - 17 minutes of Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder

Full Playlist:

  1. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Prince-1979)
  2. Chris Cornell - Nothing Compares 2 U (Live at SiriusXM - 2015) (Chris Cornell-2018)
    Connection: Written by Prince
  3. Soundgarden - Spoonman (Superunknown-1994)
    Connection: Chris Cornell was the lead singer of Soundgarden
  4. Audioslave - Like A Stone (Audioslave-2002)
    Connection: Chris Cornell was also in Audioslave
  5. Rage Against The Machine - Renegades of Funk (Renegades-2000)
    Connection: Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk from Audioslave were in RATM
  6. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (Planet Rock: The Album-1986)
    Connection: Renegades of Funk was originally by Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force
  7. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (Trans-Europe Express-1977)
    Connection: Planet Rock samples this song
  8. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hall of Mirrors (Through The Looking Glass-1987)
    Connection: Cover of a Kraftwerk song
  9. Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes (Violator-1990)
    Connection: Contains a sample of a Kraftwerk song
  10. The Killers - Read My Mind (Sam's Town-2006)
    Connection: Also produced by Mark Ellis a.k.a. Flood
  11. Inní mér syngur vitleysingur - Sigur Rós (Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust-2008)
    Connection: Also produced by Mark Ellis a.k.a. Flood
  12. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight (Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness-1995)
    Connection: Also produced by Mark Ellis a.k.a. Flood
  13. U2 - Bullet The Blue Sky (The Joshua Tree-1987)
    Connection: Flood was the engineer on The Joshua Tree
  14. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (Fear of Music-1979)
    Connection: Also produced by Brian Eno
  15. Tom Tom Club - Love to Love You Baby (The Good The Bad and the Funky-2000)
    Connection: Tom Tom Club features Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz from Talking Heads
  16. Donna Summer - I Feel Love (I Remember Yesterday-1977)
    Connection: Love to Love You Baby was originally by Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder
  17. Blondie - Call Me (American Gigolo (soundtrack)-1980)
    Connection: Also produced by Giorgio Moroder
  18. Daft Punk - Giorgio by Moroder (Random Access Memories-2013)
    Connection: Giorgio Moroder tribute track with a voiceover by Giorgio