A little Hump Day math for you. Add it up. How many times did you listen to this over and over in the 80s? (And if you were an infant or unborn in the 80s, shut it)
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Me, in a nutsack. I mean shell.
- Michael
- Ohio, United States
- I'm a simple guy. I like y'all, but don't tell me you're a "people person", OK? Also, if you tell me you are "straight-acting", I'll still be polite (Grandma Betsy lives on in me), but we'll be through. I read. I can love you if you don't read much, but if you read really bad shit, then I may not be able to love you. I'm liberal. Way. Who doesn't enjoy a nice trip (or a nice piece of fish)? I've traveled some, and I'll arrange my life so that I always can. Old people, babies (in their case, I think it's because my head/body ratio is similar), and your mother dig me (probably more than you do), and I'm OK with that. Know that if I am into you, I'll be amenable to just about anything. He'll be a lucky man who I aim to please. I'm aiming just thinking about you.
Animike
15 comments:
Hmmm...
Maybe once....by accident?
I mean I knew of them, and some of their other songs...but I honestly only vaguely remember this song.
sorry
Things were slow getting down here back then.
How'd that Vietnam War thing turn out, by the way?
It's not like my dork ass was at their concerts, but I was obsessed with the Femmes for a while, and there was copious bopping in and about my room.
I don't remember ever having heard this song. But then again, I spent most of the 80's being afraid of Fred Krueger and the music video for Thriller.
I only remember this song through the movie Reality Bites, with Ethan Hawke singing it. I thought it was written for the movie. I'm going to take my youngin' ass away now. :)
Well, I'm somewhere north of twice the age I was when I first loved it, but the song's sentiment remains singularly apt.
odd. the 80s was the only decade in which i paid any attention to pop music at all, but i've never heard this song before. when/who did it?
They're the Violent Femmes. I'll have to attach "Blister In The Sun" to this post. I'm sure you've heard that one.
I listened to this album, several times a day, for more than an entire year. Whenever I hear a song from it, I am assaulted by so many memories, I can barely handle it.
Oh, and maddie's comment just made me weep.
I have a few years on you, but I just knew you'd love it, too, FG. I swear that Roger (my iPod) knows when I need a song off that CD. Or is it that I can always use one of those songs?
When I saw that there were 10 comments, I thought they were all going to be fond memories of high school or college. How does one survive the 80s without the Violent Femmes? Is it sad that I still listen to them?
Incidentally, when I handed down my iPod mini to my son, this was one of the songs I had to remove. It pained me to do it. It makes me feel better, though, when I ask my kids what 10 is for and they scream "EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!
I almost forgot! When I was in college, I saw The Mercy Seat open for Suzanne Vega. They were HORRIBLE.
If it's sad, Susie, tattoo a single tear under my left eye. I still queue up the Femmes all the damn time.
Also, Stupid Kid Tricks almost makes me want some of my own. A few years ago I was in London with some friends and their kiddies. I had their four year old daughter using all the inappropriate sobriquets that Spike used on Buffy/Angel, to her parents' chagrin and my amusement. Like when she told the cabbie to "sod off, wanker!"......especially because her smile was so big on her cute little Eurasian face....oh, and she couldn't do the K sound, so it was "Sod off, wane-ter!"
We love us some Stupid Kid Tricks around here.
I thought you might also enjoy the fact that after I cleansed the iPod of the many inappropriate songs for my son, he handed it back to me and politely asked for MORE RUFUS.
I think I just grew a uterus.
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