Awesome Song of The Week! Metal by Afrika Bambaataa ft. Gary Numan & MC Chatterbox

This week we have another awesome song selected for you by Andrei Kopelevich.

When it comes to ridiculous forced nostalgia, the eighties seem to be the decade du jour.   From the inexplicable return of ugly, ugly clothing (http://store.americanapparel.net/accessories-socks.html), to seemingly endless (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysJyFAHwVP8) musical (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXRlxKZkr4) homages (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1Mi77nogQ), to Kanye West's characteristically self-aggrandizing use of imagery from the film version of American Psycho (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2M9YHATH2Q), it seems that anything harking back to the excesses of the Me Generation deserves a moment in the pop culture spotlight.

Nobody, however, does it with more flash, more excess, and more outright quirkiness than the people who were actually there.



Two of the biggest, most ridiculous names of the Reagan Era (accompanied by some other guy) joined forces in the decidedly non-eighties year of 2004, to produce what would certainly be called a monstrosity at any other point in history.  It' all here!  Gary "in cars" Numan's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw) eerie synth-pop whine, Afrika "party peeeeople" Bambaataa's (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_vLzsG2TCU) distorted, jam-starting invocations, an inexplicably dated rap by the aptly named MC Chatterbox, and, as a special surprise to those of you who endured the rapping, a verse from Blondie's Heart of Glass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CmhqoB1lNE).  Oh yes.

I may have neglected to mention that there are also bitchin' analog synthesizer sounds and kinda ridiculous lyrics about alienation and a lower capital gains tax and television programs about oil millionaires and all that.

So put down that gram and put on your leg warmers and nonprescription frames!  Mr. Gorbachev: tear up this floor.