The future's here
Said the pioneer
There's room at the top
Do-wop do-wop
Whatever comes tomorrow
Happened yesterday
Come with us
The future's here to stay
Dance with us
Dance with us
We're the Devil's Dancers
Swinging all the answers
Dance with us
Dance with us
We're the Devil's Dancers
Swinging all the answers
Dance with us
Dance with us
All the radon daughters
Wonder what they taught us
Making up our status
Doubts are only traitors
Whatever comes tomorrow
Happened yesterday
Come with us
Come with us
Dance with us
Dance with us
We're the Devil's Dancers
Swinging all the answers
Dance with us
Dance with us
We're the Devil's Dancers
Swinging all the answers
Dance with us
Dance with us
Dance with us until your head is spent
Work it out until the late event
Come with us
Dance with us
Come with us
Romance with us
The future's here
Said the pioneer
There's room at the top
Do-wop do-wop
Whatever comes tomorrow
Happened yesterday
Come with us
The future's here to stay
Dance with us
Dance with us
We're the Devil's Dancers
Swinging all the answers
Dance with us
Dance with us
We're the Devil's Dancers
Swinging all the answers
Dance with us
Dance with us
Freaking love this song, it gives me a very very strange unexplainable great feeling, love it. I was definitely born in the wrong decade, 90s babe who belongs as a teenager in the 80's
Wow i know it sounds 80s but when you check Spotify album page it says 2010. So i thought it is one of these modern synthpop groups. I'm more amazed now.
This song is amazing, so far ahead of it's time in mood and theme. It was written during a time when people where still discussing what the end game of our political systems were supposed to be, i.e. Capitalist west or Soviet East. Nowadays no one talks about the future or what the point of our system and way of life is, we just exist in the present where "whatever comes tomorrow happened yesterday".
And stuff like that.
Andy Oppenheimer added his commentary on what this song is about. "The Devil’s Dancers was actually based on quotes by some of the Manhattan Project scientists (dancing with the devil = making atomic bombs). If it had been released I could still be living off the royalties from that song, which is almost the ‘80s hit that never was…"
I was the first of the minimal synth collectors to find this tape back in the beginning of the 90's when I bought the complete cassette collection from Unovidual (HW). My friend HH made a K7 named "HD" with wrong titles (Come With Us, etc). I contacted Unovidual for the correct titles and the name of the artist (Andy Oppenheimer) because this was not mentioned on the tape. The rest is history. I played DJ at OA second live performance for DJ Mike's birthday. OA played live on my first minimal synth festival in Belgium together with Twilight Ritual and Martial Canterel (first live performance ever in Belgium).
Stumbled across this listening to Dalek I Love You.
Oppenheimer Analysis is Andy Oppenheimer and Martin Lloyd. They first met at the 1979 World Science Fiction Convention in Brighton, England. In 1982 they began writing and recording together at Feedback Studio in Battersea. In 2005 they re-formed and a 12" four-track EP of early material, including “Cold War” and “The Devil’s Dancers”, was the first release on the New York-based Minimal Wave label. Their last live gig together was at Brave Exhibitions in London in 2011. Martin Lloyd died suddenly on April 30, 2013. All further releases are testament to his memory and to his great work with Oppenheimer Analysis, as a pioneer producer in early electronic pop music and to his long association and friendship with Andy Oppenheimer. Andy has since dedicated songs and radio interviews to his memory.