deeper understanding by kate bush - first song about the internet?

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The Sensual World (1989)
Deeper understanding

As the people here grow colder
I turn to my computer
And spend my evenings with it
Like a friend.

I was loading a new programme
I had ordered from a magazine:

'Are you lonely, are you lost?
This voice console is a must.'
I press Execute.

'Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.'

Well I've never felt such pleasure.
Nothing else seemed to matter.
I neglected my bodily needs.

I did not eat, I did not sleep,
The intensity increasing,
'Til my family found me and intervened.

But I was lonely, I was lost,
Without my little black box.
I pick up the phone and go, Execute.

'Hello, I know that you've been feeling tired.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.
Hello, I know that you're unhappy.
I bring you love and deeper understanding.'

I turn to my computer like a friend.
I need deeper understanding.
Give me deeper understanding.

doomie x, Monday, 18 October 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

she loves killing joke, you know.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Voivod's Nothingface was also released in 1989 and that had a kinda "cyberspace" theme in it as well...

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 18 October 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

...And all this time I thought the first song about the Internet was Britney Spears' "E-Mail My Heart"...damn.

Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Monday, 18 October 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Kraftwerk's "Computer Love"?

Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Rolling Stones "2000 Man"

dave q, Tuesday, 19 October 2004 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...
those lyrics are pretty cool huh

Surmounter, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

oh kate

the table is the table, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

I discovered "The Saxaphone Song" a couple of days ago. As a certified saxahpne hater I've had to radically reassess my opinion of Ms Bush.

Turning in your saxophone
Doo - ba - doo - ba - doo

ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, those damn saxahpnes.

ledge, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:45 (eighteen years ago)

Probably not. Although not even Buckner and Garcia managed to cover the internet. :)

Geir Hongro, Thursday, 8 March 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

hehe...

saxaphone song is such a thrill. love the first line.

Surmounter, Friday, 9 March 2007 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

I miss Alex in NYC

A B C, Friday, 9 March 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

What gets me about this song is how cheesy I thought the lyrics were at the time. You know "oh yes, yes, yes, the stereotypical fear about technology taking over our lives...how original" Now they don't seem so cheesy.

Bimble, Friday, 9 March 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

nah it's pretty good, i mean it's funny this song is one that people seem to really like so it's gotten to me think about it more, in another way. i might put it on now :-0

Surmounter, Friday, 9 March 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

two years pass...

knew bimble would be on this...

spiny doughboy (baaderonixx), Friday, 23 October 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

three years pass...

Randomly googled "first song about the internet" and this was the only result OH HAI

Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 07:19 (twelve years ago)

is this a song about BBS?

licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 09:41 (twelve years ago)

video for this is the literal worst thing human beings have ever made

the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 16 July 2013 10:54 (twelve years ago)


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