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Music's Lost History Is It Disco Punk Or Reggae Can It Be All Three · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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