Westworld

The most famous example just has to be.......

 

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Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11 (1986 UK#3)

 

The band played a style of new wave music similar to New York electronica duo Suicide and Swiss techno-rock duo Yello, by layering vocals, yelps, guitar riffs, electronic sound effects and short samples over pulsating synthesizer bass lines. Or as Smash Hits described them "Duran Duran on Speed". Their use of video montage, as well as their music, is similar to that of the American New Wave act Devo.

 

The themes and imagery in the band's songs were often influenced by futuristic, dystopian or post-apocalyptic films such as A Clockwork Orange, The Terminator, Blade Runner and the Mad Max trilogy. The band's music and image also mashed together a range of other pop culture influences, including the electronica/Krautrock influences of Kraftwerk, Marc Bolan's T-Rex, and the swagger and sex appeal of Eddie Cochran, Elvis Presley and glam rock.

actually eddie cochran is what instantly came to mind when totp2 played that other gen-x spin off Bob "Derwood" Andrews and his westworld with sonic boom boy from the sony advert at the moment (which maybe ironic as both elvis and westworld were on RCA which will come under sony's total controll now bmg are not involved anymore)...think all these records are probs classed as beatbox rock n roll as there seems to be lots of refs to that terminology (and rockulators?!?!?) and i guess that kinda gives you the vibe thats its a bizarre hip-hop 1950s mash up without saying its hip-hop rock'n'roll which just sounds so wrong...and even a worse idea than billy idols xmas crooning album...tho his cover of William Bell forgot to be your lover might be alright as the original by William Bell is brilliant!!!

(like also the carbon/silicon video which looked like the crazy frog tho the song went on a bit too long...)