Totally Awesome Music Video Of The Week #1

"Robot" by British Joe Meek "house band" The Tornados, who were mostly famous for Meek's seminal "Telstar" hit single in 1962. Meek was the epitome of the mad genius inventor, pioneering the use of echo, reverb, close miking, over-dubbing, and sampling in his compositions, and had written and produced works for The Honeycombs (the hit single "Have I The Right") as well as Shirley Bassey and Screaming Lord Sutch. Plagued with debt, manically depressed, pathologically paranoid, and homosexual during a period in England's history when it was against the law to be one, Meek took his own life (and he life of his landlady) on the anniversary of his hero Buddy Holly's death. "Robots" is a great example of Meek's signature sound. And a damn strange video at that.