ROCK Sex: "Nightclubbing" - Iggy Pop > Human League > Grace Jones > Nine Inch Nails > Oasis

ROCK Sex is going out on the town tonight.

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"Nightclubbing", the proto-Industrial song by Iggy Pop, grew out of his times with David Bowie in the late-'70s Berlin scene.

Electronic and progressive German musicians like Kraftwerk, Neu!, Faust, Kluster, and Can were rethinking the soundscape of modern music. Pop, Bowie, and Brian Eno were among the first to recognize and expand on this profoundly influential movement.

IGGY POP -"Nightclubbing" (1977)


It's been noted that the riff has a sly similarity to "Rock and Roll" by Gary Glitter. Human League must have noticed because they recorded a "Rock'n'Roll/ Nightclubbing" medley.

HUMAN LEAGUE -"Rock'n' Roll/ Nightclubbing" (1980)



Grace Jones was so taken by this song that it became the title track of her breakthrough album.

GRACE JONES -"Nightclubbing" (1981)



Nine Inch Nails used a sample of the kick drum in their big hit.

NINE INCH NAILS -"Closer" (1994)



And Oasis also sampled the drums for this song.

OASIS -"Force of Nature" (2002)



Because you're bound to run into someone you know when you go out, here's Iggy and Grace together bringing the party with them!

IGGY POP and GRACE JONES -"Nightclubbing" (2009)



"We walk like a ghost
We learn dances brand new dances
Like the nuclear bomb
When we're nightclubbing"


© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• "Love Is The Drug" - Roxy Music > Chic > Grace Jones > Duran Duran

• LADIES FIRST: "Demolition Man" - Grace Jones > The Police > Sting

• "I Wanna Be Your Dog!" - The Stooges > Sonic Youth > Las Vulpes > Nirvana

• "You Can't Hurry Love" - The Supremes > Iggy Pop > The Jam > David Bowie

• DOCTOR WHO Theme - Delia Derbyshire > Gary Glitter > KLF > Human League


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: DOCTOR WHO Theme - Delia Derbyshire > Gary Glitter > KLF > Human League

ROCK Sex says "the Doctor is IN!".

Today, an "A + B = C" song chain, featuring the Doctor Who theme.

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One cool thing added to another another cool thing gives you a third cool thing. It's like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, the color spectrum, and babies.

Ron Grainger may have composed the theme for "Doctor Who" on paper, but everyone knows it was Delia Derbyshire who performed her sonic wizardry in the BBC Radiophonic Workshop to make this Electronic classic what it is.

The true wielder of the sonic screwdriver is Delia.

DELIA DERBYSHIRE -"Doctor Who Theme" (1963)



As a flipside to his Glam Rock single "Rock'n'Roll", Gary Glitter did this epic instrumental. Long before it was massacred by your local sports event. (Gary made a handful of cool songs, but Gary himself...well, that's a sad story.)

GARY GLITTER -"Rock'n'Roll, Part 2" (1972)



And The KLF, under the alias The Timelords, combined the two in this dance club hit.

THE TIMELORDS/ KLF -"Doctorin' the Tardis" (12" version) (1988)


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The youth entranced in the '60s and '70s by Delia Derbyshire and the BBC radiophonic Workshop's eerie textural soundtracks grew up to become New Wave, EDM, and Industrial pioneers. Here's proof in what could have been an alternate theme for DOCTOR WHO, named after the Fourth Doctor himself.

THE HUMAN LEAGUE -"Tom Baker" (1980)





© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• How STAR WARS Is Changing Everything!

• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - Its Transcendent Influence on all Pop Culture, with Music Player!


• Kraftwerk > Trouble Funk > Afrika Bambaataa > New Order


• "Delia Derbyshire - Sculptress of Sound" documentary
• "The Delian Mode - Delia Derbyshire" documentary


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: "We Can Beat Them, Forever And Ever!" - Question Mark + Mysterians > Redbone > Bowie

ROCK Sex wants to "steal time, just for one day".

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Okay, you're going think I'm crazy on this one, but what's new?

File this in the "A + B = C" category.

Combine the surging sway of the rhythm section in this song...

QUESTION MARK And The MYSTERIANS -"96 Tears" (1966)



...with the rhythmic intro riff of this song...

REDBONE -"Come And Get Your Love" (1973)



...and see if you don't hear them in this song: that sing-song sway, and the riff in the guitar figure...

DAVID BOWIE -"Heroes" (1977)



Maybe it's just me.



© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• "Fame" - James Brown > David Bowie > James Brown

• "Brand New Cadillac" - Vince Taylor > The Clash > Ziggy Stardust

• "Ziggy Stardust" - David Bowie > Bauhaus

• "You Can't Hurry Love" - The Supremes > Iggy Pop > The Jam > David Bowie

• "Let's Dance" - David Bowie > George Clinton > Craig David

• "I CAN'T EXPLAIN" - The Who > David Bowie > The Clash > Fatboy Slim > The Hives

• "Ground Control to Major Tom" - THE LONELY ASTRONAUT Movies, with Music Player!


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: The Music Player Checklist

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ROCK Sex: Kraftwerk > Trouble Funk > Afrika Bambaataa > New Order

ROCK Sex is about how the liquid nature of culture involves everyone.

Today's example is how the relay baton of a musical idea moves easily between supposedly different music movements.


IN the mid-'70s, German progressive rock groups were challenging the structures and rhythms of Rock. Here's the pioneers Can, during their transition from noize jazz toward funk, churning a hupnotic sitar figure into a locomotive rhythm.

CAN -"Transcendental Express" (1975)



Following a train of thought, the german progressive group Kraftwerk had the masterstroke idea of becoming robots, making robotic music for the future. As 'anti-Rock' as this seemed, it was one of the most influential strategies and unending sonic revolutions in Rock history. Countless musical doors were opened by this move...

KRAFTWERK -"Trans Europe Express" (1977)



The Washington D.C. scene in the early '80s was dominated by GoGo, a heavily percussive funk with horns and synths. The prime band Trouble Funk intersected with Kraftwerk on this anthemic cover...

TROUBLE FUNK -"Trouble Funk Express" (1981)



The New York music scene between 1975 and 1982 was a hotbed of colliding styles -including the original Punk, HipHop, NoWave, PunkFunk, Salsoul, World Dub, Disco, Mutant Disco, and Noize Jazz. One of the originators of HipHop, Afrika Bambaataa ushered in Electro (which he called Electro Funk) with his merging of Rap and Kraftwerk...

AFRIKA BAMBAATAA And The Soulsonic Force -"Planet Rock" (1982)



When the postpunk band Joy Division suffered the loss of their leader, the remaining members became New Order, trading Manchester, England's grey factories for the excitement of the New York scene. They worked with rising 12" remix producer Arthur Baker on this classic track which extends the palette of the fusion of Kraftwerk and Electro Funk ...

NEW ORDER -"Blue Monday" (1983)



There are tributaries from this linking to New Wave, Darkwave, Coldwave, Industrial, Synth Funk, GoGo Funk, Techno, Rave, Jungle, and Electronica. But water is water...bask in it all.


The Mighty Mocambos crosses tracks with Can's title, a Dick Dale guitar approach, and a horn fanfare of Kraftwerk in this modern instrumental sequel.

THE MIGHTY MOCAMBOS -"Transcendental Express" (2011)



Her's the original song rethought by a legendary Jamaican steel drum ensemble.

THE EBONY STEEL BAND -"Tanzmusik (Jump Up)" (2019)



Here is it is interpreted as a Brazilian dance samba.

Guga Stroeter, Lucio Agra, Renato Soares -"TEE" (2020)


All aboard!

© Tym Stevens

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See Also:

• DOCTOR WHO Theme - Delia Derbyshire > Gary Glitter > KLF > Human League

• "APACHE", HipHop's Sacred Secret Beat! - Bongo Band > Bambaataa > EVERYONE EVER

• "Amen Break" - How 6 Seconds From 1969 Propel All Modern Music


• The Real History of Rock and Soul!: A Music Player Checklist

Read:
• • Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980–1983, by Tim Lawrence

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