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Across the years, I've been intrigued and sometimes amused by some musical attempts to peer into the future.  Sometimes the band or artist is optimistic, sometimes not.

MA-120 - Vacuum-Tube Predictionz

01 - Modern Man - 4 Out of 5 Doctors   1980   (3:37)

02 - Big Brother - Winston Tong   1985  (5:12)

03 - A Circuit Like Me - Metronomes   1980  (3:49)

04 - Everybody's Gotta Mutate - Instant Music   1980  (3:36)

05 - Computer One - Dear Enemy   1983  (4:39)

06 - Screen Me, I´m Yours - Tik and Tok   1984  (3:50)

07 - Replicant - Camera   1985  (2:26)

08 - 1980 1234 - Plastic Money   1980  (1:32)

09 - Armageddon - Data   1981  (3:07)

10 - Robot Love - Chrome Dinette   1982  (4:57)

11 - Future Shock - Communication   1982  (3:51)

12 - Systems Breaking Down - Anna   1982  (4:19)

13 - The Triangle Man - Sally Patience   1984  (3:18)

14 - Computer - The Microbes   1980  (2:35)

15 - Mechanical Minds - Prophecy   1983  (3:35)

16 - We Are the Sub-Machines - Toccata   1987  (3:29)

17 - My Robotic Friend - Trem   1983  (3:31)

18 - Computer Numbers - Vög   1981  (4:16)

19 - I'm Wearing an Appliance - Drop   1980  (3:18)

20 - Shock of the New - Trees   1982  (2:36)

21 - Evil Eye - Gymslips   1985  (6:19)

MA-153 - The Future: Friend or Foe?

01 - Wirehead - Wasted Lives - 1979  (2:28)

02 - Slave to the Metal Horde (live) - Servotron - 1997  (2:21)

03 - Robot Wizards - Ward 13 - 1980   (2:37)

04 - Automatic Man - The Telefones - 1981  (4:20)

05 - Test Tube Baby - Chronics - 1978  (2:15)

06 - Me and My Machine - Dynamit Fischer - 1982  (3:15)

07 - Robot Robot - Nacht und Nebel - 1986  (2:50)

08 - Cybernetic Surgery - The Cybermen - 1978  (1:56)

09 - Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys - 1977  (3:05)

10 - Clone - Greg Vandike - 1979  (3:05)

11 - TV Me - The Distributors - 1979  (3:47)

12 - Babylon Generation - Gina X Performance - 1981  (4:07)

13 - 3-D Dance - Trans X - 1984  (5:37)

14 - After the War (Meat to Eat) - Teds - 1982  (2:20)

15 - Mr Science - Mr Science - 1981  (2:23)

16 - Trust in Technology - Adaptors - 1979  (2:26)

17 - Future State - Future State - 1983  (4:56)

18 - Robot Secret Agents - Mythos - 1981  (2:51)

19 - Last Rockers - Vice Squad - 1980  (4:16)

20 - Talkin' 'Bout the Future - Dick Tracey - 1986  (3:33)

21 - Science - New Musik - 1980  (3:20)

22 - In the Year 2525 - Visage - 1983  (3:44)

23 - Art-I-Ficial (Peel session) - X-Ray Spex - 1978  (3:29)

24 - Animation - Jyl - 1984  (4:06)

MA-170 - Xtended Xpectations

01 - The End - Wrong Kind of Stone Age - 1987  (1:40)

02 - Clones All Think Alike - Mike Gould and the Gene Pool Band - 1981  (3:42)

03 - Modern Living - Experimental Products - 1982  (5:42)

04 - Computer - The Allies - 1979  (4:28)

05 - Lose Control - Stocking Heads - 1983  (2:20)

06 - Android Police - Pompeii 99 - 1982  (3:01)

07 - The Machine Wants to Know - The Aliens - 1980  (3:27)

08 - Century of Machines - The Conservatives - 1983  (3:30)

09 - Science Gone Too Far - The Dictators - 1977  (3:27)

10 - Dream Machines - Sons of Heroes - 1983  (3:28)

11 - Watchman, Walkman, Thinkman - Rupert Hine - 1988  (4:50)

12 - The Shape of Things to Come - The Diodes - 1977  (2:18)

13 - 21st Century Man - DL Byron - 1980  (2:55)

14 - I'm Mechanical - Subjects - 1982  (3:15)

15 - Machine - Satellite Spies - 1986  (3:28)

16 - Clones - The Waitresses - 1978  (2:28)

17 - Take Your Brain Out for a Walk - Tagmemics - 1980  (3:02)

18 - Ms Machine - Times - 1983  (5:59)

19 - Instant Knowledge - The Asteroids - 1978  (3:11)

20 - Do It for Science - New Marines - 1982  (3:23)

21 - Transformer Man - Neil Young - 1982  (3:18)

Now listen here!  Then come back on Friday for some SUPER music!