The Way I Like It Is The Way It Is

Chicks On Speed (featuring Peaches) – “Guitar Anthem” – This is a song about a band that doesn’t play guitars. But they simulate guitar sounds. And they have a guest, who plays guitars, and plays a guitar (or a sample of a guitar?) on a song about not playing guitars. And there’s something about gaffer tape, too.

Flying Lizards “Sex Machine” – This is probably the coldest, most mechanical, deadpan, dispassionate cover version of a James Brown song that a bunch of postpunks could ever hope to come up with. It’s still kind of sexy, I think.