They followed up with an ultra-slow cover of "Rock Around the Clock", a hilariously relaxed and dispassionate version of one-hit-wonder Plastic Bertrand's punk song "Ça Plane Pour Moi", and a perversely mechanical cover of "Dance to the Music", originally by Sly Stone.
Like Kraftwerk, Telex built their music entirely from electronic instruments, and the sounds of the two groups have a certain similarity. However, unlike Kraftwerk's studied Teutonic irony, Telex favour a more joyously irreverent humour.
Their debut album, "Looking for Saint Tropez", featured the worldwide hit single "Moskow Diskow", one of the first ever electronic dance/pop songs.
In 1980 Telex's manager asked them to enter for the Eurovision Song Contest. They entered, and were eventually sent to the finals, although they apparently hoped to come last: "We had hoped to finish last, but Portugal decided otherwise. We got ten points from them and finished on the 19th spot." (Marc Moulin)
Their song "Euro-Vision" was a cheerful bleepy song with deliberately banal lyrics about the contest itself.
The Eurovision audience seemed unsure how to react to the performance, and after the band stopped playing there was mostly stunned silence, with scattered polite applause; Michel Moers took a photograph of the bewildered audience. A mark of the confusion caused by the performance was when vote-counting began, and Greece awarded Belgium three points, the announcer thought she had misheard and tried to award the points to The Netherlands.
All of this was clearly bad news for the band's English record label, Virgin Records, who were trying to pass them off as part of the New Romantic movement. The self-mockery of tracks like "We Are All Getting Old" didn't help either.
For their third album, Sex, Telex enlisted the suddenly hip US group Sparks to help write the lyrics. However, the band still refused to play live and preferred to remain anonymous — common practice in the techno music artists they later inspired, but unusual in 1981. The fourth Telex album, Wonderful World, was barely distributed.
In 1986, Atlantic Records, perhaps surprisingly, signed Telex and released Looney Tunes. By then, the band's earlier sound had influenced many other groups, but they had abandoned it in favor of sampling and a more up-tempo humorous style. "Temporary Chicken", for example, was a strange joke track about a man so desperate for work that he accepts a part time job in a chicken costume.
In 1989, Telex revisited all of their old tracks and remixed them to resemble the house music and other genres that had followed in the wake of Telex and others' early pioneering work in electronic pop. The result was Les Rhythmes Automatiques, which apparently inspired Kraftwerk to do the same for their album The Mix in 1991.
After almost two decades of silence, Telex made a come-back in March 2006 with How Do You Dance on EMI. It comprised five original compositions as well as five covers. Their last release, as of 2006, is a cover of "On the Road Again", originally by Canned Heat. They also began producing remixes for other artists' single releases, including "A Pain that I'm Used To" by Depeche Mode and "Minimal" by the Pet Shop Boys.
There are other artists ith the same name:
2. A Turkish Heavy Metal band from Istanbul.
3. Telex is also a Czech oldschool punk band from Strakonice. They were one of the first bands playing punkrock in former Czechoslovakia. Their songs such as Skateboardova Ruzena show (in late 80s in eastern Europe!) a strong hardcore influence as well. The band never became a commercial or a major label band, so their fan audience is still very strong and they are one of the most respected rare punk bands in CZ.
The Look of Love
Telex Lyrics
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Is in your eyes
A look your smile can't
disguise
The look of love
Is saying so much more than
Just words could every say
Well it takes my breath away
[Chorus]
I can hardly wait to hold you
Feel my arms around you
How long I have waited
Waited just to love you
Now that I have found you
You've got the look of love
It's on your face
A look that time can't erase
Baby be mine, tonight
Let this be just the start of
So many nights like this
Let's take a lovers vow
And seal it with a kiss
[Chorus]
Don't ever go
Don't ever go
I love you so
The look of love
Let this be just the start of
So many nights like this
Let's take a lover's vow
And baby we'll seal it with a kiss
[Chorus]
"The Look of Love" by Telex is a song that captures the essence of the feeling of falling in love. The lyrics express how the look in someone's eyes and smile can reveal their love, and how it can be much more powerful than any spoken words. The song also describes the anticipation of finally being able to hold and love the person you desire after a long wait. The chorus emphasizes this intense desire and eagerness to express and feel love physically, through the touching of bodies and sealing it with a kiss.
However, the song also reveals a certain level of insecurity and fear of losing the person who is the object of the singer's affection. The repeated lines "don't ever go" and "I love you so" show that deep feeling of attachment and vulnerability that comes with falling in love. The singer wants this moment to last and to be the start of a series of beautiful nights signified by a "lover's vow".
Overall, "The Look of Love" is a romantic and optimistic song that exalts the beauty and power of love, but also acknowledges the fragility of this state of being and the importance of cherishing and nurturing it.
Line by Line Meaning
The look of love
An expression of love that can be seen in the way you look at someone
Is in your eyes
This expression of love is visible through your eyes
A look your smile can't disguise
Even if you try to hide your feelings with a smile, your love is still visible
Is saying so much more than
This look of love is communicating more than what words could describe
Just words could ever say
It's a love that can't be fully expressed by just using words
And what my heart has heard
My heart understands and feels that love
Well it takes my breath away
It's such a profound feeling that it moves me deeply
I can hardly wait to hold you
I am eagerly anticipating the moment when I can embrace you
Feel my arms around you
I want to feel the warmth of your body in my embrace
How long I have waited
I have been longing for this moment for a very long time
Waited just to love you
My love for you has been waiting to be expressed
Now that I have found you
I am grateful to have found the one I love
You've got the look of love
You are also expressing love to me through your expressions and gestures
It's on your face
This look of love is visible on your face
A look that time can't erase
This love is so strong that it cannot be erased by time
Baby be mine, tonight
I want you to be mine for the night
Let this be just the start of
May this moment be the beginning of
So many nights like this
Many more nights to come that are just like this one
Let's take a lovers vow
Let's make a promise to love each other
And seal it with a kiss
Let's demonstrate our love by kissing
Don't ever go
Don't ever leave me
I love you so
I love you very much
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Mr. Random
Masterpiece! Probably my favorite song next to 'loops' from this album. Birds and Bees is incredibly underrated imo.
Thanks for uploading :)