Your Favorite Line

[glokstadt]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>It's not much lyrically, but I have a favorite memory of The Plimsouls' "Now" lyrics. I wonder if we sometimes forget how hard it was to get some lyrics back in the day. They weren't always on the liner, and there certainly was no internet. My buddies and I loved the fast chorus part of "Now", but Peter Case sang it so fast, it was hard to hear exactly what it said. We must have spent an hour winding and rewinding a cassette tape of it. The payoff to finally having figured it out came one night at the fire pits of Bolsa Chica State Beach. OC/LA folks will remember what a killer spot this was to just go hang out with some booze and a bonfire. For us, these lyrics from "Now" were sort of the equivalent to the "I love you baby" lyrics from "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You" like you see in some movies. I still remember my buddies drunkenly shouting out these lyrics to our girls that night...

They'll never take this night away
It's yours and mine until the day
It's all right for one night

We'll never have this chance again
So love me now and we'll pretend
It's all right for one night...right now!

Can't recall though that any of the girls took us up on that offer. [B)] ...but great times regardless.


[/quote]

Thanks for the good memories of fires at Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach, CA...loads of good times, and checking for state rangers as no alcohol on state property...[:p]

BTW, great song, great lyric; my most fave Plimsouls' song!


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[Retro_NRG]

Yep.. definitely some great ones posted so far.

Here are some more :

[b]New Order- 'Your Silent Face'[/b]
[i]Sound formed in a vacuum
May seem a waste of time
It's always been just the same
No hearing or breathing
No movement no lyrics
Just nothing

The sign that leads the way
The path we can not take
You've caught me at a bad time
So why don't you piss off[/i]

[b]The The- 'Uncertain Smile'[/b]
[i]A howling wind that blows the litter
As the rain flows
As street lamps pour orange coloured shapes
Through your windows
A broken soul stares from a pair of watering eyes
Uncertain emotions force an uncertain smile[/i]

[b]Kate Bush- 'Love And Anger'[/b]
[i]take away the love and the anger
and the little piece of hope holding us together
looking for a moment that'll never happen
living in the gap between past and future
take away the stone and the timber
and a little piece of rope won't hold it together[i]


But for PURE kitschy club dancefloor fun, nothing comes close to..
[b] The B52's- 'StrobeLight[/b]

[i]I'm gonna kiss your eyes
Then I'm gonna kiss your neck
Then I'm gonna kiss your tummy
Then I'm gonna kiss your (((!!!!pineapple!!!!))) WAHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Tonight's the night!
For love under the lighhht!
Strobe lighhht, strobe lighhhht
Underneath the strobe light
The Lighhhhht....

(Back in the day, my wife & I would always scream those lyrics to each other while trying to keep time to that crazy fast dance beat..great memories)[8D]

<MARQUEE><h5>Moving @The Speed of Life</h5></MARQUEE>

[glokstadt]

More goodies[:)]

"And I know what you're thinking
You still think I am crap
But you'd better listen man
Because the kids know where it's at"
[b]The Jam - In The City[/b]



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"Look at them fall
Flicker and fade
Gone are the screams
I put them to bed, now they are dreams"
[b]Fruer - Doot Doot[/b]


"The guilty get no sleep
In the last slow hours of morning"
[b]Crowded House - Into Temptation[/b]

[shovelbum]

"There's safety in numbers when we learn to divide,
how can we be in when there is no outside?"
~ Peter Gabriel
Not One of Us
(for me it rings of Fasching's "Comparative Religious Ethics")

"Freefall on a windy morning shore
Nothing but a fading track of footsteps
Could proe that you'd ever been there.
Spoken on a cotton cloud like the sound of a gunshot-
Taken by the wind, and lost in distant thunder."
~Duran Duran
Secret Oktober

Okay, not 80s, but I soooo love this song:
"I wish I was a hunter in search of different food
I wish I was an animal which fits into that mood
I wish I was a person with unlimited breath
I wish I was a heartbeat that never comes to rest...

...I wish I was a stranger who wanders down the sky
I wish I was a starship in silence flying by
I wish I was a princess with armies at her hand
I wish I was a ruler who'd make them understand"
~Run Lola Run soundtrack
Wish (Komm Zu Mir)

"Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal." ~Robert Heinlein

[KYYX4ever]

great choices shovel !

"Secret Oktober"'s lyrics, man I love listening to that song.
And I love "Wish" on the [i]Run Lola Run[/i] sdtrk. Cool sound.

[uofsc93]

We can go for a walk where it's quiet and dry
And talk about precious things
But the rain that flattens my hair ...
Oh, these are the things that kill me

Every time it rains in LA these words pierce my brain . . .

[enzfan]

Biggest Fool Of All ~ Cock Robin

But I won't leave you till I turn to find you gone
I'm the biggest fool of all

[TragicMagic]

[quote][i]Originally posted by the_moth[/i]
<br><p>[i]We can never remember,
the things we always forget[/i]</p>
Men Without Hats - Things In My Life


<p>[i]Why get in line if you don't want to wait[/i]</p>
Men Without Hats - Messiahs Die Young


<p>[i]What happened to Tony?
He dug a hole in the ground
When no one was looking
It took him years to be found
Now, he's making a living
Selling parachutes door to door
You might never need one
But then again, there always a war.

And don't grow a beard- they'll call you a hippie[/i]</p>
Men Without Hats - Folk of the 80s

[/quote]

We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands


Men Without Hats - Safety Dance [;)]

[SuNomi]

Little old lady got mutilated late last night...

-Warren Zevon "Werewolves Of London"

I just love how that line flows!


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[zill]

I always loved this...especially later in the song when he rattles off names of all the bands I loved in utter disgust!

Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything)

Okay, look at you
Don't you look like Siouxsie Sioux
How long did it take to get that way
What a terrible waste of energy
You wear black clothes say you're poetic
The sad truth is you're just pathetic
Get into the groove get out of my way
I came here to drink not to get laid

[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by zill[/i]
<br>I always loved this...especially later in the song when he rattles off names of all the bands I loved in utter disgust!

Dead Milkmen - Instant Club Hit (You'll Dance to Anything)

Okay, look at you
Don't you look like Siouxsie Sioux
How long did it take to get that way
What a terrible waste of energy
You wear black clothes say you're poetic
The sad truth is you're just pathetic
Get into the groove get out of my way
I came here to drink not to get laid
[/quote]


Ah yes, the Dead Milkmen had some fantastic lyrics and I loved how they bashed everyone in that song.


How could you lose with these lyrics:

Bitchin' Camaro, Bitchin' Camaro
I ran over your lawn
Bitchin' Camaro, Bitchin' Camaro
Tony Orlando and Dawn

[glokstadt]

^^^ I thought they sang: "I just ran over my neighbor??? ^^^

Another one of those I can't hear it lyrics... just like Blondie's "Denis," which I thought she was singing "beneath the knees..." go figure, [:p]



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[coop41]

[quote][i]Originally posted by glokstadt[/i]
<br>^^^ I thought they sang: "I just ran over my neighbor??? ^^^

[/quote]

That's the first verse, actually the second verse is
Bitchin Camaro, Bitchin Camaro
Donuts on your lawn
Bitchin Camaro, Bitchin' Camaro
Tony Orlando and Dawn

[geoffolehane]

Just about all the lyrics to Dream Academy's "Love Parade." Just the way it flows...

In fact I once used the line: "Are you otherwise engaged or married to someone..." when I asked someone out for a date. Unfortunately, she was.

[raserx]

"Sittin here in Queens,
Eatin refried beans,
Were in all the magazines,
gulping down Thorazines,
We ain't got no friends,
our trouble never end,
no Christmas cards to send...

DADDY LIKES MEN!"

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