This Video May Ruin Your Week

This 1970’s euro pop cover of YMCA, NMKY in Finnish, is beyond horrible. Just when you think this video can’t get any worse, the backup dancers come in with the shiny hot pants. Let me know what you think – were the seventies really that bad? Extra credit if you can name that synth.

1950’s Tube Drum Machine

The video demonstrates what a 1950’s vacuum tube drum machine sounds like. The Wurlitzer SideMan was arguably the world’s first drum machine. (It depends on whether you count the Chamberlin Rhythmate, which was introduced some years earlier, but featured tape loops instead of electronically generated drum sounds.) It still sounds pretty cool, don’t you think?