Go Spotting: Disco A-Go-Go!
Tony Collman | Published on 4/23/2014
People who like disco music may also like the game of go - if Swede Chris Linn's 1980 recording, The Game of Go (B-side to Santa Monica Blue Waves) was on the money. The song, whose chorus is: "Let's play the game of go", features such lyrics as:
Though you give me three stones,I have to fight like mad; You seem to catch up so easilyFrom the disadvantage that you had as well as the hookline, Atari! Atari! - all to a disco beat. Perhaps a Japanese-speaking reader can translate the spoken section halfway through. Click here to boogie on down to Chris's groove on Youtube. Tony Collman, British correspondent for the E-Journal. Thanks to spotter Phil Smith, who says (with perhaps just a touch of British irony), "Can't think why this wasn't more popular...."; photo courtesy of Discogs.