11 posts tagged “80's music friday”
It's the spats I tell you. I love the spats.
For a time Kid Creole was the paragon of what I wanted to be. Caught his show in D.C. in the mid 80's. The band was tight. Prince level tight. James Brown level tight. The show was a happening. We were there for at least 3 hours and begging for more when he finished. I went out and bought a baggy 3 piece wool suit from the thrift shop. Shined my shoes until they'd blind you. Stopped short of conking my hair though.
Endicott is an aspirational video. The "plan" being to stay "free", mocking all the Endicotts along the way.
Undeniably I became one of them.
For a time Kid Creole was the paragon of what I wanted to be. Caught his show in D.C. in the mid 80's. The band was tight. Prince level tight. James Brown level tight. The show was a happening. We were there for at least 3 hours and begging for more when he finished. I went out and bought a baggy 3 piece wool suit from the thrift shop. Shined my shoes until they'd blind you. Stopped short of conking my hair though.
Endicott is an aspirational video. The "plan" being to stay "free", mocking all the Endicotts along the way.
Undeniably I became one of them.
I'm a sucker for trench coats.
There may or may not be photos of me performing Darling Nikki on a pool table.
I'm not sayin' either way...
I'm not sayin' either way...
I really don't care which decade actually. I want to be Robert Palmer when I grow up (the live version naturally). I actually wooed S.O. with this song.
Wooed.
'She's so fine, there's no tellin' where the money went..."
My mother heard the title to this tune and declared my generation "had just run out."
I had three consecutive cassettes that I just wore out from playing this song.
Just this song, over and over. Just wore them out. Don't even remember what else was on them.
This is really 70's music in my opinion but it came out in 81. With a group of campus buddies of like mind, I started the first (and only) chapter of "The Ordinary Guys". Our charter included saying please and thank you, opening doors, for women, and drinking, rather uhm ... heartily.
Funkin' For Jamaica was our theme song.
Come to think of it, I was the only drinker in the bunch.
Funkin' For Jamaica was our theme song.
Come to think of it, I was the only drinker in the bunch.
This about dispels any doubts that Karen and I were separated at birth (any difference in age can be explained by a simple time paradox). I luurrve the Bowie. My favorite off that album is Modern Love:
