And I am having the devil's own time finding a song from the year I was born that 1) I like and 2) I own.
What year were you born, Kate? (The answer is going to make me reach for my heart medicine, I know). 1978?
It's a real burden being right so often.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:13:13 am PST #78 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
DXMachina - Jan 23, 2004 9:15:04 am PST #79 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What year were you born, Kate? (The answer is going to make me reach for my heart medicine, I know). 1978?
I was thinking "Greatest Hits of the Eighties" would probably have something for her.
PS. You don't get to complain. I had to find something from 1952!
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2004 9:15:22 am PST #80 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Oh, David. Do you really want to know? Okay, I'll whitefont it to spare the rest of you: 1980 .
Lyra Jane - Jan 23, 2004 9:16:07 am PST #81 of 10003
Up with the sun
1978 is easy. Or, okay, I thought it was easy. Possibly because I've been listening to the song in question a lot lately anyhow.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:16:50 am PST #82 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was afraid of that.
While that was a bad year for the folkie stuff you cut your teeth on, that's not a bad year for music at all.
Elvis Costello's Get Happy came out that year.
XTC's Black Sea.
Squeeze's Argybargy.
Lyra Jane - Jan 23, 2004 9:19:19 am PST #83 of 10003
Up with the sun
When I did a song for each year of my life mix, my 1980 song was "Love Song," by the Au Pairs. I know U2's Boy is that year too, and maybe some early Cure stuff? Blondie? Prince?
I'm kinda stumped.
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:20:06 am PST #84 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Prince?
Dirty Mind - 1980.
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta.
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2004 9:20:21 am PST #85 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
But my music collection is pretty deficient in 1980's Golden Greats. The best I can come up with is Blondie's "Atomic" (from the Bend It Like Beckham soundtrack), which, while it's a good song, is not really one that I have much personal attachment to. I'm thinking of picking up a B-52s album for "Rock Lobster" (because I really should have some B-52s anyway).
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:21:33 am PST #86 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'm thinking of picking up a B-52s album for "Rock Lobster" (because I really should have some B-52s anyway).
That's 1979 (it was big my freshman year).
But "Private Idaho" is 1980.
tina f. - Jan 23, 2004 9:21:33 am PST #87 of 10003
OK. That made me feel old, too.
1980: you already have my two suggestions: Blondie and B-52s.
1980 is one of the few years that Dlyan put out an album that is totally unusable for these purposes. 1980 was was in his born-again phase I think. Which is cool - but didn't make for the best albums.