Last week, we asked Morgan Geist to choose a track for our Classic Cuts series. It only seemed appropriate to check in with his Metro Area partner, Darshan Jesrani, for this week's installment! 

This is from the album Travelogue, which I got on cassette from the local Caldor when I was a freshman in high school.  My musical life has always been this back-and-forth between rock 'm' roll/new wave influences and R&B/dance music, and around this time the musical pendulum was swinging back toward the former. This tape got serious play on my sister's Walkman, which I used to borrow, and on my boombox.  Like every other song which has been a touchstone for me, this one conjured in my mind a complete aesthetic universe that I wanted to live in and contribute to. I was also into hacking computers and phones around this time and I found music like this to be the perfect counterpart to my illicit activities. It seemed beautiful and escapist, suggesting other themes within it that were really attractive to my teenage mind, like technology, intrigue, isolation. This song, to me, contains the essence of not only a John Carpenter theme itself, but also the visual scene it would be set to.  Although it was tough to decide between this one and "Toyota City" (from the same album), if you can avoid thinking of "Don't You Want Me" when you hear Phil Oakey's vocal, this song is a bit more rewarding.―Darshan Jesrani

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