'Safe'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Fortunately, my birth year produced a Ray Charles classic.
I found a couple of good ones, just have to choose between the finalists. One possiblity is the Mellencamp version of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." I did write a filk to it once.
Coolest first dance at a wedding song I've ever heard was "Drive" by The Cars. Because - wtf? how is that a wedding song?
Ours was "The Winter Long" by the Strawbs, as performed by a polka band.
Oh my dog. Aimee and I had the same wedding song.
Also, if you're gonna go with the Fame soundtrack for 1980, you could always go with "Red Light" and recall the joys of Leroy being discovered while afro-chick fumed.
Btw, the Peter Gabriel album from 1980 is his third (and third called Peter Gabriel), the one where his face is melting. It has "Games Without Frontiers", "I Don't Remember" and "Biko".
"Games Without Frontiers"
I can't shut up today.
This is my "funniest" misunderstood lyrics song. Before I realized the chorus was "games without frontiers" in French, I thought they were saying "she's so pop-u-lar" but then a friend explained NO it was "she's so funky. yeah."
I was so amused with both of us when I realized it wasn't even English.
My first choice would have been "I'll Cover You," from Rent, but the other person whose opinion matters does not like that song.
Man, I would love to have that for my wedding song! But it's an awkward tempo for dancing, I think. God, I love that song. It kind of makes me mist up even just thinking about it.
This is my "funniest" misunderstood lyrics song.
I still remember two classmates of my sister's (which would make it fall of '80/winter of '81, don't remember when volleyball season was) going on about AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap": "'Dirty deeds. Thunder chief.' What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
1980 B-52s: gotta go "Strobe Light", mang.
But it's an awkward tempo for dancing, I think.
That was what Patrick said. He also doesn't like the voice of the actor who played Angel on the cast recording I have.
We ended up getting a band anyhow.
I finally checked for my year I was born.
Sticky Fingers. Blue. Tupelo Honey. I am spoiled for choice.
::preens about being born in 1971::
Before I realized the chorus was "games without frontiers" in French, I thought they were saying "she's so pop-u-lar" but then a friend explained NO it was "she's so funky. yeah."
That's Kate Bush (edit: doing the BVs), and she's saying "jeux sans frontiers" (did I get that right? It's "games without frontiers" in French)