25 posts tagged “80s”
Only for the most discerning of listeners: Wire's Drill.
Are you level? How's your trim?
Do you rotate, eddy, or spin?
Are you game? What's your trick?
Do you vibrate, bounce, or tick?
What's your cut? Are you correct?
Do you detour, bend, or stretch?
We're milling through the grinder, grinding through the mill
If this is not an exercise, could it be a drill?
How's it with you? What's your form?
Your outline, shape, or form
How's your price? What do you cost?
Your value, profit, or loss
How's your skull? Does it fit?
Is your mind free, empty, or split?
Drill drill drill
Dugga dugga dugga
...So I am posting this song with "girl" in the title all by it's lonesome because it wouldn't fit in with the Country/Cowboy theme, but that's what punk is best at, not fitting in with the mainstream, right?
RIYL: Agent Orange, Minor Threat, TSOL, "melodic" punk, power pop, the New York Dolls, Social Distortion, in general... the 80s.
Why'd I post this?
Because I always liked the lyrics to this great song. Here's to you...
If I paid better any attention to who's who, I'd have known that a 90s band I love was formed by two members of an 80s band I love even more. I can't tell you how different these two bands sound, I never would have guessed these are the same musicians from Echo and the Bunnymen! I ate, drank, slept, and shit Echo and the Bunnymen in my youth and I had absolutely no idea - not even a "this kind of sounds like..." thought ever crossed my mind.
I am opposed to ads on anything, especially stuff that's 20 years old and wasn't even that popular then and certainly isn't any more popular now... but I'll take what I can get because stuff from the Jack Rubies is so rare.
I have always loved the song, CALIFORNIA SUN. Yes, even as sung by Frankie & Annette in my childhood, but no version tops the Ramones.
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Submitted by Beauty.
I have lots of posts I like, but I have a bigger crush on my music library chock full of 80s Britpop-type goodness.
To name just a few: Afghan Whigs, Alternative tv, Ballboy, Big Country, Black Grape, the Call, the Catherine Wheel, Collapsed Lung, the Come ons, Comsat Angels, Dinosaur Jr., Dodgy, Drop Nineteens, The Farm, Fire Engines, Flesh for Lulu, Flowerpot Men, Half Man Half Biscuit, Hoodoo Gurus, Icicle Works, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Mighty Lemon Drops, Mighty Mighty, Mouse Eat Mouse, Orange Juice, the Pastels, Plimsouls, Pulp, Ratcat, the Rave-Ups, Say Wah!, Soup Dragons, Split Enz, Stone Roses, Sugar, Thee Headcoatees, Weather Prophets, the Wedding Present.
You know how they have that piped in "radio" playing out of the loud speakers, right? It wasn't Muzak, they were playing actual songs.
Anyway, it was kind of low volume and faint but I could still make out the lyrics. It was still playing as I approached the Deli, so I asked the Deli Counter Girl if she knew it, she didn't. While she was getting my order I went and stood under a speaker writing lyrics down on the back of my tiny scrap of a shopping list.
It was really driving me nuts because I knew I had that song on 45 when I was a kid.
I get to the check-out and the cashiers next to each other are, I am not kidding you - playing NAME THAT TUNE, and I ask if I can get in on it and tell them the lyrics, but I think this was before their time... i kept thinking it was Rupert Holmes or something like that. I was on the right track, right era, right genre, but not actually close at all...
Here's the snippets I caught:
Meet me in the middle of the day, let me hear you say everything's OK
Meet me in the middle of the night, let me hear you say everything's alright
Bring me southern kisses from your room
Let me smell the moon in your perfume
See, You knew it immediately, I had to google. I told the cashier I was going to go "OH! THAT'S WHO THAT IS" and hit my hand on my forehead like I coulda' had a V-8 as soon as I find it. I was right. I coulda' had a V-8.
