17 posts tagged “80s”
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.
I had this song on a 45 when I was in the 8th grade. Shameful I know, but also right around this time I started listening to Cheap Trick, The Clash, and the Sex Pistols, so don't worry... I turned out ok and stopped listening to crap...
I hereby declare JOHN PEEL to be the best music search term ever.
By the grace of the Festive 50 (#44), another song by the Mighty Mighty has been found...
As an added bonus - this gem from the Come Ons.
ATV's LLL comes complete with original vinyl scratches. Glorious.
One Saturday I took a walk to Zipperhead
I met a girl there and she almost knocked me dead
Punk rock girl
Please look at me
Punk rock girl
What do you see?
Let's travel round the world
Just you and me punk rock girl
I tapped her on the shoulder
And said do you have a beau?
She looked at me and smiled and said she did not know
Punk rock girl
Give me a chance
Punk rock girl
Let's go slam dance
We'll dress like Minnie Pearl
Just you and me punk rock girl
We went to the Philly Pizza Company
And ordered some hot tea
The waitress said well no, we only have it iced
So we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy
And someone played a Beach Boys song on the jukebox
It it was "California Dreamin"
So we started screamin
On such a winter's day
She took me to her parents for a Sunday meal
Her father took one look at me and he began to squeal
Punk rock girl
It makes no sense
Punk rock girl
Your dad is vice president
Just like the Duke of Earl
Yeah you're for me punk rock girl
We went to a shopping mall
And laughed at all the shoppers
And security guards trailed us to a record shop
We asked for Mojo Nixon
They said he don't work here
We said if you don't got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin
We got into her car away we started rollin
I said how much you pay for this
Said nothin man it's stolen
Punk rock girl
You look so wild
Punk rock girl
Let's have a child
We'll name her Minnie Pearl
Just you and me
Eat fudge banana swirl
Just you and me
We'll travel round the world
Just you and me
Punk rock girl
