One of the many pleasures had this past weekend was singing along to 80s new wave hits with Mr. G&T and sharing my love of car dancing with Boo. While on a hunt for meat, my neurons fired up an idea based on the soundtrack of our venture.
After hearing Adam Ant ask, “If I strip for you, will you strip for me?” I notified Mr. G&T, “I have a really cool idea for a mixed CD.” (I also remarked upon my awareness of the inherent contradiction of that statement.) “What if you had a CD of the ‘sex’ songs of the 80s?”
Mr. G&T seemed enthusiastic, and challenged me to come up with something, after we bandied around some of the required songs. Here are a few thoughts for the stages of seduction in the 80s:
The Perfect Kiss - New Order
Lips Like Sugar - Echo & The Bunnymen
Kiss - The Art of Noise, ft. Tom Jones
Need You Tonight - INXS
I Want You Now - Depeche Mode
Let’s Go To Bed - The Cure
Strip - Adam Ant
Sex (I’m A…) - Berlin
Wild Sex (In the Working Class) - Oingo Boingo
Until She Comes - The Psychedelic Furs
Brand New Lover - Dead or Alive
Now this list is by no means comprehensive, and has more to do with the suggestive titles and their implications (after all, the “Perfect Kiss is the kiss of death.” I am of course aware of the implications of “Jenny/867-5309” or “Turning Japanese,” but those are far more ambiguous and not nearly as fun. Additionally, as much as I can sincerely appreciate Journey, “Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’” does not belong on this list, because it is completely at odds with the spirit of the music invoked.
Suggestions?
5 comments:
Hmm, my mind always goes blank when asked things like this
Im thinking on it
What, no new posts?? This blog sucks again already...
Mr. Hiatus, you are one to talk.
and God, can he talk...
Beef Bologna by Fear?
I dunno.
Maybe end up with Geza X's Isotope Soap.
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