tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post279220739945167121..comments2024-03-02T07:40:22.786+03:00Comments on Only Solitaire blog: Buggles: The Age Of PlasticUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-51491449727155364002017-05-31T02:33:46.944+03:002017-05-31T02:33:46.944+03:00This album is my pick for the most underrated albu...This album is my pick for the most underrated album of all time. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06931935733057255427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-18906657939475864012015-07-14T00:27:52.573+03:002015-07-14T00:27:52.573+03:00This comment has been removed by the author.Which One's Pink?https://www.blogger.com/profile/01967778287591586043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-43199406428596066552015-07-14T00:27:40.871+03:002015-07-14T00:27:40.871+03:00Haven't heard the rest of this album yet, but ...Haven't heard the rest of this album yet, but I've always loved "Video Killed the Radio Star", so I'll get to it soon. One thing I'd like to commend in particular is the tiny guitar "break" in "Video" -- nothing of interest on its own, but it comes at the perfect time, cutting through the synths for a brief moment. I don't know if it was part of Horn's concept of maintaining the human element of music in the face of increasing technological dependence, or if it simply sounded like a good addition -- whatever the case, it was the right choice for the song.Which One's Pink?https://www.blogger.com/profile/01967778287591586043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-91701829249679697882015-07-13T21:33:57.908+03:002015-07-13T21:33:57.908+03:00>Horn said at one point that he used a live dru...>Horn said at one point that he used a live drummer because good drum machines hadn’t been invented yet.<br /><br />Technically, one had - you just needed to be Donald Fagen or Walter Becker to get your hands on it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-660808341284783109.post-46553410557397312682015-07-13T18:09:09.199+03:002015-07-13T18:09:09.199+03:00Like I a lot of prog fans, I eventually came to th...Like I a lot of prog fans, I eventually came to this album backwards, through Yes. And “Video Killed the Radio Star” (which actually wasn’t a very big hit here in the USA) wasn’t the first song that I heard on the radio. A few months before “Drama” was released, I heard a Philadelphia DJ announce that the Buggles had joined Yes, and played the title track to show “what the new band might sound like”. I thought that this New Wave-disco stuff could NOT possibly done by Yes (I was even more wrong about that than I knew at the time!). <br />But I always did like “VKtRS”, so I got around to this. I must say that I’m also intrigued by the use of the most advanced technology available at the time for the music and the accompanying lyrics warning against dehumanization BY technology. I’m still not sure what to make of it, but it was very deliberate -- Horn said at one point that he used a live drummer because good drum machines hadn’t been invented yet. Nowadays, I think the songs are very catchy, danceable in some cases and very smart. <br />It still amazes me that their manager was able to talk them into joining Yes, because this music still doesn’t seem compatible with theirs. And it wasn’t 100% compatible, either. For all the complaints that prog rockers were out of touch in outer space, I think Horn sounds more human and real on “Drama” than he does here, even if his Yes lyrics were more abstract. The Buggles were ready to move on from the sound here already, whether or not they joined Yes. It was left to other people to use this album as a prototype for the rising British New Wave/MTV pop scene.<br />trfesokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12631886869696528704noreply@blogger.com