Girls On Top (Richard X)

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The sleeve to Girls On Top's "I Wanna Dance With Numbers", January 2001. It spoofs the album cover from Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine.

Girls On Top was the pseudonym used by record producer Richard X between 2001 and 2002. As part of the bootleg music craze of the time, Girls On Top had a string of limited edition underground singles released on vinyl only. Richard X used the method of taking the instrumental music track of one pop record and the a cappella version of another pop record and splicing the two together.

The most successful record produced by Girls On Top is "We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends" which became a single for the Sugababes in 2002, Freak Like Me.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

• "Being Scrubbed"/"I Wanna Dance With Numbers" (January 2001) - "Being Scrubbed" is The Human League's "Being Boiled" vs TLC's "No Scrubs"; and "I Wanna Dance With Numbers" is Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" vs Kraftwerk's "Numbers", and "Computerworld.. 2".

• "Warm Bitch"/"We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends" (August 2001) - "Warm Bitch" is Missy Elliott's "She's a Bitch" vs The Normal's "Warm Leatherette"; and "We Don't Give A Damn About Our Friends" is Adina Howard's "Freak Like Me" vs Tubeway Army's "Are 'Friends' electric?".

[edit] Album

• Girls On Top "Greatest Hits" (April 2005) - An unofficial release featuring all four of Girls On Top's singles, along with the unreleased "Romance V.3" (Aaliyah vs OMD), a Richard X remix of the Sugababes single "Freak Like Me" and Fat Truckers' "Teenage Daughter".

[edit] External links

• Black Melody (Official Site)