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May 6, 2009

In 2003, British electronic popsters Erasure released an album of covers called Other People's Songs that included this version of "Video Killed the Radio Star." The Erasure cover album was mostly unlistenable nonsense. This song, however, makes a cute finale to the record, appearing as the final track. It's on my playlist for the subway this morning.

Click on the forward-arrow icon below to listen to "Video Killed the Radio Star" by Erasure.

Practically everyone remembers the original version of this song, performed by The Buggles, and its celebrated appearance as the first video ever played on MTV. It turned out to be a rather incorrect piece of prophecy, as it wasn't video that killed the radio star. It was the Internet.

-- Aaron | Link

Comments

I would say that the internet killed video too!

The Buggles song was inspired by the short story "The Sound Sweep" by recently deceased JG Ballard.
It´s the story of a washed-up opera diva who was forgotten after "ultra sound music" became all the rage and noone was interested in listening to conventional music anymore.

-- StellaVista | May 07, 2009