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There was an 80s song with the same lyric that I liked a lot- "I Melt With You".
Modern English.
Apparently the podcast isn't all up when you announce it. Two times now it's quit mid sentence, marked not finished in the player but unable to continue. If I come back later the whole thing plays.
Meaning, if it does that, come back later.
"Listen above or — better yet — go to your usual podcast place and subscribe."
My "usual podcast place"?
I remember, when the internet was still shiny and new, reading someone's observation that whenever you see downloading a string of ones and zeroes to your computer and having your web browser interpret it as html and display it, referred to as if you were going to a place, you are being scammed. Someone is scamming you. Because you aren't really going to a place, you are merely allowing someone to display his content at your place.
I think that's a little harsh. Starting, perhaps, with the idea of a web "site", internet vocabulary makes heavy use of the location metaphor. It is really no more a scam than Windows referring to directories as "folders". I think. But I have no idea what you mean by my usual podcast place. Where might that be?
https://mobile.twitter.com/boriquagato/status/1334607660038180865
I agree it can’t get no worse.
One of the more surreal episodes of my youth was walking down the beach at 10am spring break datona ‘84 and stumbling upon a free concert performed by modern English—sponsored by a beer company. Says something that it was a great show despite my pounding hangover.
That song is prominently featured in Valley Girl, really the movie that got Nicolas Cage noticed as an actor. It is where I first remember hearing it in the Spring of 1983. A great soundtrack that I was never able to find anywhere. All of the songs were barely hits, and you never heard them on the radio where I lived except for one song by Men at Work.
Seems pretty easy to find
I love 80s music. The Living In Oblivion and Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits Of The '80s CD series are full of 80s goodness.
It is available now, sure, but wasn't in 1983 that I found.
Just checked- it wasn't released as a soundtrack until the mid 90s. By that time I already owned most of the CDs that were available from the bands.
And allow me to plug the best 80s band you've (tragically) never heard of.
The Qs still put on a great show too.
Yeah, we live in magical times. I spent ten years searching for The Beach Boys Party album. This was a gold record, featured "Barbara Ann" for crying out loud, yet was out of print when I started buying records. Every garage sale, every used record store in every town I would pass through, for ten freakin' years..
Now not only is it back in print on CD, you can find the vintage vinyl with one click..
I have been listening just now to the songs I remember from the movie- "Johnny Are You Queer", "Eyes of a Stranger", "A Million Miles Away", "Eaten By the Monster of Love". Of course, "I Melt With You" is played quite a bit on the Sirius 80s channel these days.
I am the wrong person to try to recommend an 80s New Wave band I have "never heard of". There may well be no such band that recorded anything that I haven't heard of or listened to before. I am a kind of idiot savant on 80s music. I could, and have, literally bored people with the trivia.
In any case, "Now I'm Talking About Now" shows up frequently in my YouTube playlists, even when I am just watching a poker or math video, which is kind of freaky because I don't remember ever playing the video on Youtube, but I probably did at some point and just don't remember it.
Here is a song that popped up in the playlist just now as I was listening to The Plimsouls. Another song I have never once played on Youtube, but is a song I loved at the time it was a hit (1980). It is one of those lost hits.
And Youtube clearly knows that I have been in love with Annie Lennox since I was 17 years old.
"Now I'm Talking About Now" is great, but I think "Some New Highway" is my all-time. Anne Richmond Boston's "Big House Of Time" solo album was great too. When I saw the Q's some years ago (not the concert linked above), ARB had her teen daughter in the audience, and when she went into her rock-star bounces, the daughter was like "Oh mom, I don't even know you".
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