There's more than one way to skin a cat. And I happen to know that's factually true.

Mayor ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'


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.


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.


Aims - Jan 23, 2004 9:22:02 am PST #88 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Monty Python released their Contractual Obligation Album in 1980. That could be fun.

t /being no help whatsoever


Steph L. - Jan 23, 2004 9:22:33 am PST #89 of 10003
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Dude. Kate is younger than my baby brother.

I feel old.