Yesterday's Soundwave Set to a quirky quark-based song by the ever inventive and and ethereal space rockers from their seventh studio album of the same name, although this single version is slightly different to the LP one. It's a very upbeat, catchy song for these experimentalists, but sticks to the repetative three-chord structure favoured by guitarist Dave Brock who was influenced by the krautrock bands such as Neu! The song humorously refers the relationship between scientists and their work, alongside their romantic failures, though neglects to mention how Einstein was happily married to a brilliant mathematician wife. In this clip, on the Granada TV show Marc, presented glamorously by Marc Bolan show in 1977, Dave Brock is missing, rumour has it because either he didn't want to pre-record and mime, as did Robert Calvert on vocals, drive up to Manchester, or had some problem with Bolan. Either way, it's quirky document to a gem of a pop song.
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