buggles the age of plastic (1980 / island records / 36:24 + 11:12)track one: living in the plastic age / the plastic age
every day my metal friend shakes my bed at six am (hello!)
then the shiny serving clones run in with my telephones
talking fast now make a deal buy the fake and sell what's real
whats this pain here in my chest maybe i should take a rest
they send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
and as they drag you through the dark they tell you that you failed the test
(living in the)
living in the plastic age looking only half my age
hello doctor lift my face i wish my skin could stand the pace
in my bed i read my mind remember how the mice were blind
i watch them fighting in their cage could this be the plastic age?
they send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
and as they drag you through the dark they tell you that you failed the test
(living in the)
plastic age! plastic age! plastic age!
they send the heart police to put you under cardiac arrest
and as they drag you through the dark they tell you that you failed the test
(living in the)
plastic age! plastic age! plastic age!
track two: video killed the radio star
i heard you on the wireless back in '52 lying awake intently tuning in on you
if i was young it didn't stop you coming through
they took the credit for your second symphony rewritten by machine on new technology
and now i understand the problems you could see
i met your children what did you tell them
video killed the radio star video killed the radio star
pictures came and broke your heart
and now we meet in an abandoned studio we hear the playback and it seems so long ago
and you remember the jingles used to go
you were the first one you were the last one
video killed the radio star video killed the radio star
in my mind and in my car we cant rewind we've gone too far
video killed the radio star video killed the radio star
in my mind and in my car we cant rewind we've gone too far
pictures came and broke your heart put the flame on vtr
you are a radio star you are a radio star
video killed the radio star video killed the radio star
video killed the radio star video killed the radio star
(you are) video killed the radio star (a radio star) video killed the radio star
(you are) video killed the radio star (a radio star) video killed the radio star
(you are) video killed the radio star (a radio star) video killed the radio star
track three: kid dynamo
though today you might be riding the engines of progress
working in the media factory
call me if you ever feel like letting go and we'll remember the days of
kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo dynamo
swimming in the soundwaves of the playback from the eight-tracks
i think your mind was born with water wings
and now when i see you on a generation screens
i remember the dreams of
kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo dynamo
kid dynamo (i remember your) kid dynamo (the hours i spent with you) kid dynamo (cause i invented you)
all that we said of how the media builds stars and our minds wont change only our cars
kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo (i remember you) kid dynamo (the hours i spent with you) kid dynamo (cause i invented you) kid dynamo
kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo kid dynamo
track four: i love you (miss robot)
i love you miss robot elecronic tease
i love you miss robot programmed just to please
you make love like a metronome don't drive too fast when you take me home
touch the seam on your silver skin that feels so hard when you take in
i love you miss robot programmed just to please
i love you miss robot electronic tease
talk of love on the telephone when your voice fades there's a paying tone
force a coin and you're there again d.i. the loneliness brain to brain
i love you miss robot programmed just to please
i love you miss robot electronic tease
endlessly miss robot give yourself to me
i love you miss robot do you love me
i love you miss robot elecronic tease
i love you miss robot programmed just to please
endlessly miss robot give yourself to me
i love you miss robot do you love me
FLIP
track five: clean clean
pogo johnny kicked me in the head aiming for the floorboards but they picked me up instead
through the ringing of the night before said the engine's running gotta pay a call
johnny drove the half track cause we could not find a jeep wake me in the morning gotta get some sleep
driving all night out of fear got it in the ribs everytime we changed gear
im gonna take a ride gonna pick up the team gonna go where we've never been
im gonna take a ride gonna pick up the team (pick it up picking up the team)
god you know its hard to keep the fighting clean
clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean
pogo johnny gonna fight the war chaplain in the morning at the local liquor store
pogo coughing bad from diesel fumes johnny tell the chaplain gonna polish his tombs
lying on the waste gound with a blanket on his face indicating that he's left the human race
helmet open when the world came in gotta keep your head if you wanna win
im gonna take a ride gonna pick up the team gonna go where we've never been
im gonna take a ride gonna pick up the team (pick it up picking up the team)
god you know its hard to keep the fighting clean
clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean
clean clean clean clean clean clean clean clean
clean clean (lost a million in the very first attack)
clean clean (don't you worry cause we know we'll get them back)
clean clean (lost a million in the very first attack)
clean clean (don't you worry cause we know we'll get them back)
track six: elstree
action!
i had a dream on a back lot and saw my life like a long shot
of smiling faces in a picture parade of all the stills from the films that you made
that we would see in the essoldo after drinking coffee at the gioconda
elstree remember me i had a part in a b-movie i played a man from history
elstree look at me now i work for the bbc life is not what it used to be
i took no dives in the fight scenes i had a stuntman kept my suit clean
theres no technology to fake up a song they stop the orchestra if you get it wrong
elstree remember me i had a part in a b-movie iplayed a man from history
elstree look at me now i work for the bbc life is not what it used to be
elstree
they made a field into a warzone i beat the enemy on my own
all the bullets just went over my head theres no reality and no one dead in
elstree remember me i had a part in a b-movie i played a man from history
elstree elstree elstree elstree
cut!
track seven: astroboy (and the proles on parade)
school days and lost days out there in the midwest they'd climb on their liners to rejoin their wives
walking down boulevards electric eyes would gaze at the waveforms and gasp at their size
let tem be lonely and say you don't care
astroboy (watching the proles on parade) astroboy (watching the proles on parade)
ulla with blond hair would stand by your side and the friends who were hungry could swallow your pride
chromium headsets their video screen would show pictures of helplessness old kings and queens
radio stations their faders in dust all their transmitters are crumbling with rust
let them be broken and say you dont care
astroboy (watching the proles on parade) astroboy (watching the proles on parade)
astroboy (watching the proles on parade) let them be broken and say you don't care
astroboy (watching the proles on parade) astroboy (watching the proles on parade)
astroboy (watching the proles on parade) astroboy (watching the proles on parade)
track eight: johnny on the monorail
down down they pause and walk away even in the streets your feet dont move
see their faces through the perspex turn to stare back up at you
you you're eyes are green and mine are blue
in the subway darkness i am watching you
oh my my you are so sci-fi please will you let me ride
johnny riding on the monorail johnny riding on the monorail monorail
you you know that life is terminal it's the paris pullman in your mind again
eyes like cameras move their lenses take this dream i offer you
johnny riding on the monorail
johnny riding on the monorail
johnny riding on the monorail
all we cannot see we call invisible tracks that move on pylons through the sky
oh my my you are so sci-fi please will you let me ride
johnny riding on the monorail
johnny riding on the monorail
johnny riding on the monorail
johnny on the monorail johnny on the monorail johnny on the monorail
johnny on the monorail (johnny reslo johnny reslo johnny reslo johnny reslo)
johnny on the monorail (johnny reslo johnny reslo johnny reslo johnny reslo)
johnny on the monorail
BONUS TRACKS
track one: island
track two: technopop
on some lonely motorway i was forced to spend the day
services i stop the car resturaunt and in the bar
i lie right back and turn the radio on
now for major surgery i'll be you and you'll be me
wonder what was in her mind was i really so unkind
to lie right back and turn the radio on
technopop technopop technopop
can we settle out of court loyalty can not be bought
effortlessly changing gear maybe this will all end here
i lie right back and turn the radio on
technopop technopop technopop technopop
track three: johnny on the monorail (a very different version)
same as album version but with the line "goodbye johnny reslo"
*on this webpage, lyrics may be incorrect. i type them out by hand and source them from either genius, actual lyrics sheets, or whatver sounds right. i've used youtube and tumblr to source the audio/visual elements, and google to source the images.
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