Because I'm Bored.
Sep. 25th, 2005 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All from my shady past. This is the New Wave edition.
Wow. I feel so... retro. Have fun.
- 'Cause if my eyes don't deceive me there's something going wrong around here
- But you still mystify, and I want to know why
- I wish I could be as carefree and wild
- Fallen leaves in the night, who can say where they´re blowing
- I see innocence shining through
- I'll give you television, I'll give you eyes of blue
- I am like all magic men (yes I know, yes I know) I am all
- But your empty eyes seem to pass me by
- I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall
- the second hand unwinds
- try to detect it, it's not too late
- You can watch yourself while you are eating
- I hear the talking of the DJ, can't understand just what does he say?
- what worries me then is when I wake up if it might be worse
- He has his future in a British steel
- It touches and it teases as you stumble in the debris
- I picked you out, I shook you up, and turned you around
- the one who insists he was first in the line is the last to remember her name
- Both of us searching for some perfect world we know we'll never find.
- You can lose a lifetime thinking of it and lose an era daydreaming like I do
Wow. I feel so... retro. Have fun.
<-- also a child of the '80s
Date: 2005-09-26 12:56 am (UTC)6. China Girl, David Bowie
12. Mirrors in the Bathroom, Modern English
13. Mexican Radio, Stan . . . Freeburg?
18. Pretty In Pink, the Psychadelic Furs
I recognize a lot of these lines but my brain's not putting them into context at the moment. Alas.
Re: <-- also a child of the '80s
Date: 2005-09-26 12:57 am (UTC)Re: <-- also a child of the '80s
Date: 2005-09-26 01:15 am (UTC)There. Now it will be stuck in my head all night.
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Date: 2005-09-26 02:30 am (UTC)Re: <-- also a child of the '80s
Date: 2005-09-26 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 01:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 01:16 am (UTC)*significant cough*
No, no, I don't think anyone has ever classified Heart as a New Wave band.
You're thinking of their song Magic Man, but that has nothing to do with this one.
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Date: 2005-09-26 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 01:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 03:22 am (UTC)Doop de doo:
4. 10000 Maniacs - More Than This
6. David Bowie - China Girl
8. Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself
10. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
11. Devo - Whip It
17. Human League - Don't You Want Me
12's vaguely familiar, but I can't place it. And... hmm. 16 is by the Eurythmics, I think, but I can't name the song.
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:15 am (UTC)Except #4 was Roxy Music's first.
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:00 am (UTC)The only ones I know are:
#10--Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)
#17--Oh *%&$^! I'm singing it my stupid head, but do you think I can remember the title? I'll get back to you on this...:0)
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:03 am (UTC)"Don't You Want Me!" That's #17. Who the flock sang it though...? Depeche Mode? Human League? Human League! I think...
**wanders off, humming** "don't, don't you want me. You know I don't believe you when you say that you don't need me..."
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Date: 2005-09-26 04:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 11:13 am (UTC)1. Is she really going out with him? Joe Jackson
3. Stray Cat Strut - stray cats
4. More than This - roxy music
6. China Girl - Bowie
10. Time After Time - cyndi lauper, backed by the Hooters ;)
11. Whip it! Devo
13. Mexican Radio - wall of voodoo
15. Making Plans for Nigel - xtc
17. Don't you want me! Human League
18. Pretty In Pink - psychadelic furs
19. Ohm, I can sing it but not what comes next! Alas!
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Date: 2005-09-26 03:39 pm (UTC)1. Joe Jackson - Is She Really Going Out With Him. My best friend dated a guy in high school for a while, and they were sort of a strange couple -- we'd hum this song whenever we were around them. :)
10 is Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time.
2 is Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind.
8 is Billy Idol, Dancing With Myself.
11 is Devo, Whip It.
17 is Human League, Don't You Want Me.
Is 19 the Thompson Twins, Hold Me Now?
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Date: 2005-09-26 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 10:31 pm (UTC)10. cindy lauper, tiem after time!
huh?I' mstumpedo nthe rest. strange.i recognize lines...