Recording

Good Life
Inner City

Independently chosen for2 of our lists. Here is what each of them said.

Released

1988

Label

KMS / Virgin

On

Detroit Techno and The Waxonia Desk — Sounds Like a Single

Updated

2026-08-29

1. 03

   Ranked No. 3 in Detroit Techno

   Kevin Saunderson proved techno could be a pop song without surrendering the machine. Paris Grey's vocal is the human argument at the centre of the genre.

2. ·

   Picked by The Waxonia Desk — Sounds Like a Single

   Detroit techno behaving like a pop record and refusing to apologise for it. The genre spent the following decade deciding whether that was a betrayal or the entire point.