On June 26th, 1981, KRAFTWERK released the double A-side single COMPUTER LOVE / THE MODEL (UK release: June 26th, 1981)
Originally issued as the track DAS MODEL (later DAS MODELL) on the 1978 album DIE MENSCH-MASCHINE (‘The Man-Machine’), the song was issued as a German single the same year coupled with the track ‘Neonlicht’ (‘Neon Lights’).
Inspired by the models who worked at Cologne’s Bagel nightclub, German DJs at the time preferred the track over Neonlicht. However, despite its popularity at home it received little airplay elsewhere.
Three years later, in the summer of 1981, it was issued in the UK as the b-side of the ‘Computer Love’ single under its English title ‘the Model’. When British DJs started playing the B-side, mirroring the earlier German response, EMI re-issued the single in December 1981 - apparently against the band's wishes—with ‘The Model’ as the A-side.
The latter release became a massive commercial success, reaching no. 1 in the UK singles chart in February 1982, and charting in the Top 75 for a total of 21 weeks.
She's a model and she's looking good
I'd like to take her home that's understood
She plays hard to get, she smiles from time to time
It only takes a camera to change her mind
She's going out tonight but drinking just champagne
And she has been checking nearly all the men
She's playing her game and you can hear them say
She is looking good, for beauty we will pay
She's posing for consumer products now and then
For every camera she gives the best she can
I saw her on the cover of a magazine
Now, she's a big success, I want to meet her again
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發表於 2019-6-26 21:34:17
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