TW/CW: Margaret Thatcher.
I first heard this in the 90s, on a cassette someone had recorded from the radio (remember that?) and then heard it years later online, when online was kinda new.
This song was allegedly by Krasswerk, but according to a comment from 13 years ago, “This song was created in Shoreditch in London by a friend of mine called Pete. He released it under the name of Very Important Music and it got to number 6 on Kiss FM.
As the Gulf war broke out an embargo was issued to prevent anything with any political references being played on the radio. This song stopped getting played then. Pete made this song by sampling hours of Margaret Thatcher speeches and making the song on his synthesizer in his studio.”
Pete himself shows up in the comments and seems to confirm it, but I remain in awe of the project scope. There wasn’t YouTube or editing software; this was so much sampling and I would honestly watch a documentary about how it was made. The end result: V.I.M. – Maggie’s Last Party.
Because of this song, we also joke that our cat, Kate, aka Lady Katherine Megatron, Princess of Tails, has two modes: Rave, and Murder.
I hope your weekend is full of the correct balance of each one!
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