A little while back, Fluxblog brought a certain song to my attention:
"Rachel Stevens 'I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)' - Oh, Rachel Stevens - never stop with the glammy schaffel-pop! It is your thing and only Goldfrapp can touch you on this score."
And it's a damn catchy little tune that lent itself to some heavy repeat time on WinAmp here in The Hovel. (Only later did I learn that Stevens was a member of the pre-fab telepop group S-Club 7, but I will choose to ignore that from hereon in.)
Anyway, one of the commenters to the Fluxblog post (as did another MP3 blogger, don't remember who) pointed out how the track sounded like Adam and the Ants. When I first heard the track, I immediately thought of it as sounding like Amii Stewart's disco hit "Knock On Wood", with a bit of a slinky Deborah-Harry-circa-1978-spandex-and-ripped-T aesthetic thrown in for good measure.
So, I thought to myself, "Wouldn't it be great to hear all this put together?" It took a bit of scrounging*, but now -- finally -- here they all are, assembled as the Circadian Shift glampop set:
- Amii Stewart - "Knock On Wood"
- Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
- Adam Ant - "Goody Two Shoes (Hot Tracks Mix)"
- Goldfrapp - "Train"
- Rachel Stevens - "I Said Never Again (But Here We Are)"
And you can download it all as a single ZIP file (22.2 MB) (via Rapidshare) and play spot-the-influence and/or slink, schaeffel, and glam out to your little heart's content.
* - most MP3s obtained from other sources on "The Internets"