Future World Orchestra: Desire (1982)

A modern electronica duo can only dream of being as good as Future World Orchestra. [via Robert Popper]

• [August Culbert]

  Guys like these must have inspired this:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAFC4_KbW0

• [Gaucho85]

  With those mustaches these guys had two options, either be late 70s/early 80s musicians or be pedophiles.

  • [Jasonclock]

    Why not both?

• [Sergio]

  thats all I need to hear – purchased! 

• [Frank Diekman]

  I can’t wait til the future gets here.  Then all music will be like this.

• [echolocate chocolate]

  Huh… I actually enjoyed the song, completely un-ironically. Does that mean I have bad taste?

  I was also wondering what branch of Star Fleet these guys belong to. Based on their uniforms, something janitorial.

  • [vonskippy]

    I thought they were Star Fleet Academy Cafeteria ladies?  In the 23rd century both sexes will have cheesy mustaches.

  • [Mujokan]

    The best of this genre is dark, like this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-4X1YpIUA
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu6MDdxBork
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JF25k0Rm0k
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMPC8QJF6sI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoTmCvx3H7I
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6f593X6rv8
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUyVDkS2w0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myzrnWbyz1s
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HfGu2dUX-0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkj4p3rI17s
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEJviPGmyKs
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zBjYIyz-0
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tw8CDB3u8

    Edit, I screwed up some links.

    • [Alex Rudnick]

      Holy cow, these are great. Thanks for the links! :)

      • [Mujokan]

        Glad you liked ‘em! The Human League one is quite ahead of its time.

• [nixiebunny]

  That’s got to be the most obvious lip-synching I’ve seen in a long time.

  • [millie fink]

    Right?! They don’t even bother to get anywhere near the mics.

• [Paul Bowen]

  Guy on the right’s Gaze Of Desire is going to be in my next nightmare, I guarantee it. (Is it me or is he a bit Buffalo Bill?)

  Agree with echocolate chocolate – the tune is actually fucking great, ebay here I come.

• [Paul Bowen]

  Hmm, very little there and what there is is very expensive.

• [Peter Högberg]

  my god, that was awful! An absolutely horrible insult to my senses.
  But that Tim and Eric tune August posted was great, thanx!

• [bo1n6bo1n6]

  That was pretty awesome and a little creepy.

• [Thomas Zaraat]

  I just spent more than an hour figuring out what synthesizers those were. In case any one but me cares here’s my conclusions

  I think the standing dude was playing an oberheim four voice: http://www.hillscloud.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/fvs1.jpg

  The other dude was playing a polymoog: http://www.synthfind.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/polymoog3.jpg

  with the modules from a korg ps 3300 sitting on top for no good reason: http://www.nitrogen.myzen.co.uk/Korg/various%20Korg%20pix/KorgPS3300.jpg

  • [kuanes]

    I spent the whole video going “Why is there a Korg module on top of the Moog?”

    Is it strange that I found that to be the most bizarre thing in the video?

    • [Rich F. (Korg USA)]

      I found it bizarre as well. Sure, PS-3300 looks cool, but they sound much better when they’re plugged in. :)

    • [Mujokan]

      Well yes, it’s for the look of the thing, like Sweet Dreams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg

    • [Thomas Zaraat]

      That’s exactly what caused me to spend an hour looking at ancient synths.

  • [Matthew]

    “No good reason?”  Come on, haven’t you ever met a video producer?  Their producer most certainly said during the shoot, “Haven’t you got something with more knobs and dials on it?  Come, on you’re the Future World Orchestra!”

• [JIMWICh]

  I think in this case, the future world is our beloved Topeka, from ‘A Boy And His Dog.”

• [snagglepuss]

  Actually, it’s a little awesome and pretty creepy.

• [Arthur Seat]

  I rather like it! Reminds me a lot of “I.G.Y. (What a Beautiful World)” by Donald Fagen, also from 1982.

  Best line – “there’ll be Spandex jackets, one for everyone!”

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sogYgHlNnqo

• [tristan eldritch]

  That was amazing.  Effortless Hall and Oates/throwaway Fagen harmony pop, as sung by everybody’s dodgy/might be on the register relative.  Pure catnip for hipsters.

  • [Mujokan]

    Also made me think of Hall and Oates.

• [Miss Cellania]

  This is really typical of the time. Steely Dan, Air Supply, Gino Vanelli, and the videos were atrocious -just simple shots of TV appearances while lip-synching. But that was state-of-the-art, for the most part.

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    More like lip-not-synching in this case.

• [Chang Terhune]

  In space no one can hear you scream through your mustache.

• [Chang Terhune]

  1)  The guy on the right looks like my kid’s 5th grade math teacher.  Yikes.

  2)  WHere are the drums coming from?  Yikes.

  3)  Yikes.

• [GDK_in_DFW]

  Definately a group that needs to be at Moogfest in Asheville NC this October.

• [Graham Freeman]

  Where’s the drop? Where’s the WUBs and the DUBs?

  • [.]

    Yeah.. I kept waiting for the drop, but it never happened. I feel cheated….
    Or maybe that’s what Optimus Prime sounded like before his truck-nutz dropped.

• [Cicada Mania]

  Quintron and Miss Pussycat are far better than this Tim and Eric skit.

• [Matthew]

  I don’t want to be rude, but they didn’t really look like they were “burning with desire” for anything other than a nap.

• [dwasifar karalahishipoor]

  Dreadful.

• [Chad Lake]

  This is why I never am able to post on BoingBoing (or Reddit, or any other site for that matter).  As soon as they hit the bridge I thought, “Zoinks! That’s where Donald Fagan got his sound from!”, then rushed to post. Only to find that I am hours and hours late.

  I am way too slow for the Internet.

• [irksome]

  Now if they’d only added a ukulele…

• [Sean Whelan]

  Mustaches? Check.
  Synths? Check.
  Dr. Who costumes? Check.

• [mzed]

  Keep it smooth.

  http://www.yachtrock.com/

• [Morgan LaVigne]

  I was just thinking this morning “Boy I wish I could be creepily leered at by guys with molestaches and valley girl jumpsuits..”  Thanks BoingBoing!

  • [millie fink]

    molestaches. Snirk!

  • [anderalert]

    “Daddy’s doing that thing where he’s laughing until he cries.” 
    15 seconds ago

• [LightningRose]

  Justifiably obscure.

• [Brian Rook]

  reposted… damnit

• [hacky]

  Anyone else notice their clothes were slightly different?   Somehow I find that strangest of all.

• [millie fink]

  Dear BoingBoing,

  Enough with your obsessive pasturbation! Onward to the future!

  Oh, wait.

• [immovableobject]

  OMD, they’re not!

• [wingo shackleford]

  Quite amazing how the one dude is able to sing double backup vocals.

• [geeklinks]

  Its like Kraftwerk wannabes gone usa top 40 pop rock.

• [Guest]

  Wow, it’s an Easy Listening album by Sparks! I also like how there isn’t an audio cable or power cable in sight.