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TIL, thanks for sharing this song with us!
The Human League’s Phil Oakey teamed up with electronic master Giorgio Moroder for this classic '80s tune.
Giorgio Moroder wrote ‘Together in Electric Dreams’, intended for a male solo vocal.
Movie director Steve Barron suggested his former colleague, Human League frontman Philip Oakey, for the part.
The song was later credited to Moroder and Oakey, after the two teamed up in the recording studio.
Moroder is best known for his production work and is often called the ‘Father of Disco’.
The film Electric Dreams was director Steve Barron’s first full feature film. His previous work included directing a number of music videos, with his most famous being The Human League’s ‘Don’t You Want Me’ in 1981.[1]
Together In Electric Dreams (Remastered 2003 / From “Electric Dreams” Original Motion Picture… [03:52 | Philip Oakey - Topic][2]
This synth pop ballad captures the story of a romance.
The song was based upon Steve Barron’s film, “Electric Dreams” (Barron directed the Human League’s music videos, he directed “Don’t You Want Me”).
In the film, the lead character Miles finds himself trapped in a love triangle with his neighbour called Madeline and super computer which becomes alive. The computer, coining himself Edgar, becomes alive due to being doused in Champagne and a faulty set up.
The film ends with Edgar committing suicide as he accepts Miles and Madeline’s love for each other, as he send extreme electrical volts into himself.
The final scene shows Miles and Madeline on holiday listening to the radio with Edgar (being the voice) dedicating the song ‘Together in Electric Dreams" to the “ones he loves.”
The song encapsulates this narrative with the relationship being between Miles and Madeline, with their admiration for each other being solidified within the death of Edgar.
The song was originally released to advertise the film but quickly overshadowed the film and became a success in its own right as it peaked at No. 3 on the UK charts.
Oakey stated that it is ironic as the track took ten minutes to record without any hope or realisation that it would become a worldwide hit[3]
[1] The Story of… ‘Together in Electric Dreams’ by Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder | Tom Eames | 4 November 2021 | https://www.smoothradio.com/features/the-story-of/together-in-electric-dreams-song-lyrics-video/ ↩︎
[2] YT Link: https://youtu.be/vVJYBPQyFTQ ↩︎
[3] https://genius.com/Philip-oakey-and-giorgio-moroder-together-in-electric-dreams-lyrics ↩︎
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DeArrow is a paid (if you want) browser extension. You can purchase an unlimited-use license key for 1$.
However, if you cannot, or do not want to pay, you can click the button at the bottom to use DeArrow for free. No worries if you can’t or don’t want to pay :)
TIL.
Thanks for sharing!
Edit: added quote below
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"You know what they want?
They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough, to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs, with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it." – George Carlin
David Graeber’s book on bullshit jobs blew the myth of office productivity wide open several years ago. The elites have been promising us shorter work weeks for more than a century now. We have the technology to make it happen. As we speak, they’re bragging about their new AI minions.
Of course, that article even admits that onsite employees aren’t more productive. They just find different ways to “goof off,” like shopping online or scrolling their phones. The real ire seems to stem from envy, that remote workers are capable of meeting their responsibilities while also doing healthy things and taking care of themselves, like taking a walk in the middle of the day or (gasp) even a nap. Ironically, wellness articles have been telling bosses to let their employees take walks or naps in the middle of the day for almost 20 years.
Many news outlets finally came clean last year and reported that a big chunk of companies might simply be using office return mandates as an excuse to lay off employees and “restructure” their workforce.
Anywhere from 12 to 20 percent of office space remains vacant. It’s worse than the 2008 recession. If these landlords can’t find a way to make money off their corporate real estate soon, they’re going to start defaulting on their loans. The landlords will go bankrupt, and banks will wind up with giant office towers they can’t sell. More than $1 trillion will go poof.
According to a piece in the Harvard Business Review, the $1 trillion will come due between now and 2026. That explains why CEOs keep making these edicts, and newspapers keep trying to trash remote work. As the piece explains, “The damage could metastasize into a full-blown financial crisis if scores or even hundreds of small and midsize commercial banks fail simultaneously.”
The Federal Reserve’s misguided war on inflation has made everything even worse over the last couple of years. By raising interest rates, they’ve motivated more companies to ditch their office leases. Now commercial real estate is in a death spiral that could tank the economy (again).
Major cities have spent the last several decades catering to these corporate landlords. Now their entire downtowns rely on workers for commerce. We’re talking about all those restaurants and coffee shops that serve breakfast and lunch to white-collar workers, and all the bars where people used to go and complain about work before they spent an hour commuting home.
Once again, the elite have gotten themselves into big trouble. They want the rest of us to bail them out. If they don’t want our tax money, they want us to give up our freedom and autonomy. They want us to sacrifice ourselves on the altar of capitalism to protect their fortunes.
We must not fear using our critical thinking muscles, or else we will lose them.
There should be no need to ask, but I guess some still need to…
The normal route would be to check profile information and history; then it becomes really easy to figure out, for some.
Edit5: fixed [1][2] format
We may be dead inside, yet we keep on going.
[1] https://genius.com/50-cent-many-men-wish-death-lyrics ↩︎
[2] Alt. Link: https://archive.ph/IERUg ↩︎
AOC would never hate “Mama Bear!”
Limp Bizkit - My Generation [03:40 | Rap, Rock, In English, USA, Rap-Rock, Metal, Alternative Metal, Nu-Metal][1]
[Pre-Chorus]
So go ahead and talk shit, talk shit about me
Go ahead and talk shit about my g-g-generation[2]
The 3rd track off Limp Bizkit’s 2000 Album “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water”. In this song, Fred talks about generation x, his generation which at the time was criticised by the media for being violent and disoriented.
ITT: Blue MAGA and preaching to the choir.
Dr. Jill Stein has improved the Green Party; y’all just believe anything the duopoly and owner-class media spit out when it agrees with your thinking.
Muslim support is at an all-time high for Dr. Jill Stein; that is why AOCPelosi, the new attack dog of Blue MAGA, started up again.
I suggest getting out of the echo chambers and checking out independent journalists instead of continuing the self-censorship.
To keep his sanity, Joel crafts sentient robot companions, including Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, and Gypsy, to keep him company and help him humorously comment on each movie as it plays, a process known as riffing. Each two-hour episode would feature a single movie (often edited for time constraints), sometimes preceded by various old shorts and educational films, with Joel, Tom, and Crow watching in silhouette from a row of theater seats at the bottom of the screen.
Not to forget to mention the other video of the IDF moving the young Palestinian bodies with excavaders.
Edit: added link below, post of videos
And we will continue to support them 100% of the way, so as to keep the duopoly and the status quo of supporting genocides all over the world.
More forever wars where the working class continue to be killed off, while the owner-class and their lackeys rake in their profits and natural resources.
You should see what happens when political tribalism takes place in the United States.
Strong emotions and financial strain with the working class at an all-time high, disdain towards other groups, and fights break out.
Assassination attempts and murder of activists and politicians due to disagreements.
I think it goes back to dividing the working class and keeping us entertained so we don’t pay attention to the status quo.
Sadly, not the only billionaire pushing for more surveillance.
Another big one is Peter Thiel.
Ah, you are right.
That would really change my perspective and feelings about the song!
It has happened to me a few times, but such is life!
Edit: word
Yes, fascism faced inward.