Yeah I know what you're saying
@sufi. For me I heard it as a kid via the same pop mechanism that brought me... well, all the other music I heard that wasn't from Mum and Dad's Simon & Garfunkel records. Years later I heard the word techno. So while in terms of its structure, and who made it, plus the fact that loads of people who know way more than I do about the subject say so, it's totally techno without any debate... but none of that changes my experience of first hearing it on Saturday Morning Superstore next to Five Star or whatever and having filed it in that box which I've never really been able to properly get it out of...
Though that's nothing to do with why I don't like it I should say, or only in as much as when I heard it then I just didn't like it as much as other hits. It's funny actually, I've known lots of people about my age say "When I heard Pump Up the Volume (or whatever bits of the dance music iceberg stuck out of the water) i knew it was the future" - well I absolutely didn't. Anything like that I heard I just didn't understand at all, and if Good Life had been less poppy I would have liked it even less.
I'm trying to be clear here. What I mean is, I heard Good Life as a pop tune that I just didn't like, but if if had been a more austere futuristic thing then I would have no doubt rejected it even more completely without giving it a chance. Though I suppose possibly that might mean I could listen to it now with fresher ears and maybe end up liking it more... but that's an awful lot of ifs and maybes.