almost back to it

[fflo]

don' wanna go back to work! like no work. miss houseguest. new resident has the runs. older resident hid pretty good today, giving me a scare & leading me to have to explore the basement, where lurks all manner of dread.

but there's this. i've known for a while that i'm the target demographic of the music in hiller's, if they're aiming at people who were in high school and college during the appearance of the songs with which they serenade our shopping selves. but tonight---i could hardly believe it. it was a tune i nearabout went nuts trying to find on vinyl, back in the days when you had to look in actual record stores: don't put another dime in the jukebox(; i don't wanna hear that song no more) by the flirts.

will wonders not ever cease. (don't answer that.)

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[andystardust.livejournal.com]

I love that song. I have a copy of it on a cassette I dubbed from a compilation of music from early MTV videos, which I think was called Class of 1982.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to know somebody else has an appreciation for it! I love the hook and the notion behind it.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

A few years 'afore my time! but I know about feeling marketed to. Lately when i go into some supermarkets, I jut wanna gag, because they're playing the Babys "Every time I think of you," all manner of Journey, etc. (That awful piano and guitar is in my head now... "Don't stop believin'." admission: I owned a cassette of it.) The last few times, I was actually driven to get out of the store sooner, and vowed not to come back at that time (weekday lunchtime). At one point--the early 90s-- I thought I was never going to have to hear some of that stuff again! But then I was stunned, when, in grad school, early 90s, a younger grad student --one of these cool indie boys-- was saying how he had just bought Journey and Air Supply on CD; they bothered to put that on CD??? I wondered.

BUT: Here's a related memory: I was in elementary school in the mid 70s when Hall and Oates' "Sara Smile" was ubiquitous on the airwaves, and all the staff (lunchroom, janitorial) would sing it to me and laugh when I shrank with embarrassment. I hated that song. Would immediately change the radio station when it came on. Felt as though I had heard it a million times before and that suffering through the meandering phrasings once again would be torture. But recently I was telling zrgkdx about it, and she said she had never heard it, or didn't remember hearing it. I thought about it and I said, "You know, it really is a nice song, when you think about it, the way it's phrased....sort of blue-eyed soul." Then I sang a few bars of it, imitating the way it was phrased, in ways that, well, got laughs. But I realized that Darryl Hall and John Oates had really been onto something.

Anyway, the idea that you'd hear something formerly rare in your supermarket excursion (the Flirts) is exciting and subversive. (Or it means formerly cool people are working at the muzak company.)

Hmmmm. I've never heard the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket" in the supermarket.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I've never heard the Clash's "Lost in the Supermarket" in the supermarket.

THAT would be mondo cool.

I always like the phrasing in Sara Smile, too. It had interesting rhythm to it. Whichever is singing (Hall?) plays with syllables & such. I think I knew that you'd not like it! I heard it a coupla months ago and stayed in the car, despite having parked, to hear the rest.

Who, pray tell, is zrgkdx?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Okay, now that I know that, when will zrgkdx post something??