Pop Will Eat Itself: Music from Intentionally Short-lived Pop and Rock Scenes

Madison Moffat (Trans-creator Radio) has always loved a good fad, evidence that it was not only her with tendencies to dilate the diminutive. In this edition of Rotations, she shares some of examples of the 'follicle on a grand scale’, from 50’s dance crazes to the manic replication in 1990-2 of the same ‘beep’ sequence across multiple rave trax.   Tango Tea / Studio G; Period Music - Victorian and Rural Dance LP [1976]Tea Dance Rag / Studio G; Period Music - Victorian and Rural Dance LP [1976]Mashed Potato Time / Dee Dee Sharp; It’s Mashed Potato Time LP [1960](Do The) Mashed Potatoes (Part 1) / Nat Kendrick and the Swans (feat James Brown); (Do The) Mashed Potatoes 7” Single [1960]Star Wars Theme - Cantina Band / Meco; Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk LP [1977]Disco Trek (Star Trek Theme) / Universal Robot Band; Freak in the Light of the Moon LP [1978]Hooked on Classics / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Hooked on Classics LP [1981]Stars on 45 / Stars on 45; Stars on 45 LP [1981]Testone / Sweet Exorcist; Testone 12” EP [1990]Tune Splits the Atom / MC Tunes vs 808 State; Tune Splits the Atom 12” EP [1990]Quadrophonia / Quadrophonia; Cozmic Jam LP [1992]3AM Eternal (Live at the S.S.L) / KLF; The White Room LP [1991]Def.Con.One / Pop Will Eat Itself; This is the Day...This is the Hour…This is This! LP [1988]Kill Your Television / Neds Atomic Dustbin; God Fodder LP [1991]Spirit of Life / Scum Pups; Find Out Why 7” EP [1990] Image: ‘Person Holding Black Cassette Tape’ by @stasknop (2018)