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.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
Host ,'Why We Fight'
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.
Lyra Jane - Jan 23, 2004 9:16:07 am PST #81 of 10003
Up with the sun
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.
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Steph L. - Jan 23, 2004 9:22:33 am PST #89 of 10003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Dude. Kate is younger than my baby brother.
I feel old.
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2004 9:22:48 am PST #90 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I thought of U2, but I'm using a song of theirs for another track, and the only artist I'm willing to repeat if I have to is the Nields. I have no Prince, no XTC, no Squeeze, some Elvis Costello but not the right year.