Alright. That's it. I need to get out my iPod and put on the Good 80s playlist. It's starting me off with Boomtown Rats. Looks good so far.
Seems like everyone's got a tale to tell.
Mal ,'Safe'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2005 7:39:47 am PDT #9235 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
juliana - Sep 20, 2005 7:41:30 am PDT #9236 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
And all those Tears for Fears songs!
Everybody Wants To Rule The World. One of my automatic happy-making songs.
Jars - Sep 20, 2005 7:42:03 am PDT #9237 of 10002
My experience is that it's the day after when the tetanus shot really gets you.
Ah, crap. I've been putting off getting one, for no real reason, and my work is high risk enough that I really need it.
§ ita § - Sep 20, 2005 7:42:53 am PDT #9238 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World. One of my automatic happy-making songs.
I used to hate that song. Not sure why. Violently, though. Then they rerecorded it as Everybody Wants To Run The World for LiveAid, and it was played ad nauseam while we were running the world, and lo -- I love it.
Scrappy - Sep 20, 2005 7:43:24 am PDT #9239 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Seriously? I thought that it was John Malkovich.
Malkovich plays her lover. Laurie is her husband who she totally blows off. It's all very Liaisons Dangereuses but I really liked that particular video, so I remember it very well.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 20, 2005 7:43:52 am PDT #9240 of 10002
What is even happening?
But we have "Jungle Love," by The Time! And all those Tears for Fears songs! (Which now sound like one big medley in my head.)
I'll give you Jungle Love (which I'm surprised isn't on the '84 list, because I'm pretty sure Purple Rain came out during the summer of '84, but maybe the song spent most of its on-the-charts time during '85). I have many, many fond memories of that song. However, I think you've defeated yourself with your own argument on the Tears for Fears songs.
We did have some good songs. But overall, I look at the list and roll my eyes to it. Sadly, I think I recognize them all.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 20, 2005 7:45:12 am PDT #9241 of 10002
What is even happening?
Jesse. Now Jerome.
Wolfram - Sep 20, 2005 7:45:19 am PDT #9242 of 10002
Visilurking
Now I see House telling Annie, "Broken glass? I recommend razor blades: cleaner cuts, less annoying slivers."
Topic!Cindy - Sep 20, 2005 7:45:27 am PDT #9243 of 10002
What is even happening?
Sorry. 80s Tourrettes.
JZ - Sep 20, 2005 7:46:36 am PDT #9244 of 10002
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My year (86) was kind of meh, but it had a little bit of Prince, so there's that.
I feel like the biggest dork in the world, but "Back on the Chain Gang" makes me cry and cry and cry. I used to cry a bit back when I thought it was a song about mournful ex-lovers, and then Hec told me all about how it was the Pretenders' first single after a truly awful couple of years in which they and all their friends and associates had been beseiged by addictions, illnesses, and stupid pointless deaths, and that Chrissie Hynde had lost who even knew how many friends in a very short time, and the song was all about her standing in the living world singing across it to all those people who were stupidly, criminally, tragically beyond her reach. So now that song makes me cry like a bastard. And if I let my mind wander and allow the words "chain gang" to lead me to thoughts of Sam Cooke, I cry even more.
t /horrible sap