Music's Lost History Is It Disco Punk Or Reggae Can It Be All Three
The critics called it Disco. Mainly because of the firest ever use of a new electronic drum machine. Fans labeled it Punk. Oh really? Cuz the band was hoping for Reggae.
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Speaker 1: Collins!
Speaker 2: Music's lost history. The stories that made you move. Your
soundtrack on fire. Music's lost history.
Speaker 1: Name the song before we do.
Speaker 2: There used to be a time when radio, MTV, VH1,
and YouTube used to put a lot of importance in
the physical act of sharing stories.
Speaker 1: Music's lost history. My name is Eric.
Speaker 2: To What songs do you sing?
Speaker 1: Music's lost history.
Speaker 2: Name the song.
Speaker 1: Before we do. Arrow Collins is back, back.
Speaker 2: So the goal, once again, is can you name the
title of the song before we give it to you?
This particular song is described as one of the greatest
about excitement as well as disappointment. Everything is connected to love.
And right away you're going to pick up on that
because the lyrics are pushing you toward a direction where
somebody actually believes that they have found the true love
of their life only to realize this relationship is very fragile.
Speaker 1: You know, like hearts.
Speaker 2: The song title symbolizes something that looks beautiful but is
easily shattered.
Speaker 1: Again, hearts. What easily shatters? Maybe a glass.
Speaker 2: The song makes a point that listeners know it's not
about someone that they know. According to Debbie, it's simply
a moan about lost love. The song had a different
title in 1974, Once I Had Love. As a disc jockey,
it kind of makes me wonder how I would have
introduced that over the intro. The new version was seen
as disco of all things because it was inspired by
Rock the Boat from Hughes Corporation. A heart that shatters
like a glass.
Speaker 1: Music's lost.
Speaker 2: History.
Speaker 1: We got to dig into this coming up next. Music's
lost history.
Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for coming back. Our featured song this time
around is something that critics called disco. But fans, they
went all the way out and said, no, this is
new age punk. But the band, you know what they
wanted to do? They wanted to turn it into a
reggae tone. Debbie and company admit that it just didn't
feel right. Back to the beat, which was like a heart.
It shatters so easily, like that of glass.
Speaker 1: Now, get this.
Speaker 2: The drums featured came from the Roland drum machine. This
song is considered to be one of the very first
to ever use such a musical instrument. Then, boom, that
disco beat, which, man, people turned it off once they
got into that because it wasn't the hottest thing going
at the time. they weren't buying into the punk rock
vibe either. So what was going on here? Taking a
chance with music. With a song that deals with the
heart and the reputation of things shattering like that of glass,
it went on to become a number one song on
Billboard's charts, making them one of the very first to
fuse rock, punk, pop, and disco all.
Speaker 1: Into one song.
Speaker 2: It's Heart of Glass from Deborah Harry and Blondie. I'm Arrow,
and that's music's lost history.