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Readers recommend playlist: songs about industry and manufacturing | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, January 18, 2018

Readers recommend playlist: songs about industry and manufacturing

Iggy Pop, OMD, Spandau Ballet and the Commodores have their say on a hard working and eclectic reader-curated list

Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from your suggestions on last week’s callout. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.

The rhythmic sound of machinery and the subject of work and industry seem to lend themselves to musical expression almost as a matter of course. Before we begin, an observation: for some reason, this week’s list is heavy on the 1980s – perhaps that decade, when industry was rapidly declining in many Western countries, was one where such topics were in the forefront of musical minds?

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by Pairubu via Electronic music | The Guardian

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