Most influential & inspirational lines from an 80's track?

OutlawPete

In these increasingly difficult times, I feel we as Irish people have lost something that we once had in abundance. Something that other countries in the world were envious of and we perhaps took for granted, as it once upon a time came very easily to us.

I am speaking, of course about: 'merriment'.

Where has it gone, have we now given up because we may not be able to afford the rent or food? Have we become that materialistic and shallow??

It is at times like these that the words of Madonna come to mind, words we may have forgotten in these days of deep recession, as we trawl our increasingly dog eat dog world:

"If we took a holiday
Took some time to celebrate"

What I think Madonna is saying here is, let's not just focus on our problems, but our solutions.

Many philosophers have made the mistake of assuming that Madonna was talking about "Holidays" here, when in fact she was doing anything but.

When she spoke of "Holidays", Madonna meant a break, a retreat if you will.

A little time to yourself when you don't focus on getting rid of the 'negative' in your life, but "took some time to celebrate" the positive gifts that you have been given, gifts we have undoubtedly taken for granted.

"Just one day out of life"

Just ONE fecking day people!!

That is all Madonna is saying here, you don't have to do it all the time, everyday single day of your life.

It really pisses me off when people take that out if context.

Just a single day, out of seven or ten, or whatever you can manage.

"It would be, it would be so nice"

Well, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it be so nice, if we could just find our 'merriment' again.

starbelgrade

You been smokin' de ganja again, Pete?

RolandIRL

you listen to madonna. how embarassing for you :P

mikom

OutlawPete wrote: »

In these increasingly difficult times,

"They only hit until you cry and after that you don't ask why."

Sea Sharp

Madonna doesn't write her own music so it's safe to assume that she has absolutely no idea what she's sh1ting on about whilst prancing around on stage like a fool.

FunkZ

Where the fcuk is me jumper?

Yakult

We’re no strangers to love,
You know the rules and so do I.
A full commitment’s what I’m thinking of,
You wouldnt get this from any other guy.

Super-Rush

I think Bucks Fizz had the right idea when they said this,

Don't let your indecisions take you from behind.

squod

She got legs,
She knows how to use them.

Ruu_Old

I'm serious as cancer
when I say
rhythm is a dancer!

Sorry, I know this is early 90s.

AssaultedPeanut

I would go out tonight, but I haven't got a stitch to wear

FearDark

Aah the 80's a time of proper lyrics, a place where male singers were men not little gays like Justin Beiber and Jedward, a time when Elton John and George Michael ruled the charts, music today is really really gay, seems like every singer today is just a homo. We need solo artists like these men back in the charts with their real music.

starbelgrade

Ooh, now let's get down tonight
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling
I want Sexual Healing

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I have fallen for another; she can make her own way. hoooome......

bonerm

I think Stan Bush said put it best when he sang "you know that when things get too tough, you got the touch."

(features on the soundtrack to the Orson Welles movie "Transformers". Available in all good record stores).

Super-Rush

starbelgrade wrote: »

Ooh, now let's get down tonight
Baby I'm hot just like an oven
I need some lovin'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer
It's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling
I want Sexual Healing

Come On Eileen as the encore?

Donkey Oaty

Don't.















Don't you want me.

teaholic

FearDark wrote: »

Aah the 80's a time of proper lyrics, a place where male singers were men not little gays like Justin Beiber and Jedward, a time when Elton John and George Michael ruled the charts, music today is really really gay, seems like every singer today is just a homo. We need solo artists like these men back in the charts with their real music.

Is there not a contradiction in there some where?... :rolleyes:

seensensee

"Talk about a moon floating in the sky looking like a lily on a lake,
Talk about a bird learning how to fly Making all the music he can make
Happy talk, keep talking' happy talk,Talk about things you'd like to do,
You gotta have a dream, if you don't have a dream,How you gonna have a dream come true?"
http://www.metrolyrics.com/happy-talk-lyrics-south-pacific.html

DarkJager

Am I living in a box

Am I living in a cardboard box

bonerm

FearDark wrote: »

Aah the 80's a time of proper lyrics, a place where male singers were men not little gays like Justin Beiber and Jedward, a time when Elton John and George Michael ruled the charts, music today is really really gay, seems like every singer today is just a homo. We need solo artists like these men back in the charts with their real music.

Exactly! Don't forget Freddy Mercury while you're at it. He could belt out a rocking tune and wasn't afraid appear to play-up to his tough-guy image by wearing leather jackets and a handlebar moustache.

Ulysses Gaze

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
He's down on his luck...it's tough, so tough

Gina works the diner all day
Working for her man, she brings home her pay
For love - for love

She says: We've got to hold on to what we've got
'Cause it doesn't make a difference
If we make it or not
We've got each other and that's a lot
For love - we'll give it a shot

darragh16

Rick Astley once said;

"Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you"

Always helped me through the hard times!

RolandIRL

darragh16 wrote: »

Rick Astley once said;

"Never gonna give you up, Never gonna let you down, Never gonna run around and desert you"

Always helped me through the hard times!

the hard times of rickrolling people on youtube :pac:

af_thefragile

Run, rabbit run
Dig that hole, forget the sun
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down
It's time to dig another one...




Though on second thoughts these are wayy better:

How much is the fish?
How much is the fish?
How much is the chips?
Does the fish have chips?

DOC09UNAM

What is love, baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

trellheim

"It's worse than that it's Physics Jim" - Star Trekkin, the Firm, 1987.

starbelgrade

DarkJager wrote: »

Am I living in a box

Am I living in a cardboard box

Ah yes.. the great 1980's homeless person's anthem, by the band, Living in a Box.

cleremy jarkson

"Good morning miss"

"Can I help you son?"

"16 today, and up for fun.
I'm a big boy now, or so they say, so if you serve I'll be on my way"

Dudess

Too many 90s songs here - not good... :-/

Mr. CooL ICE

This means nothing to me.

Oh, Vienna.

humberklog

Because you are: Gold!

Or if in another mood

I'm up and down, I'm up the wall, I'm up the bloody tree.

trellheim

It ain't what you do it's the way that you do it and that's what gets results.

Bananarama, 1982 [ with Funboy 3 ]

marco_polo

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at 900 miles an hour
That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it's reckoned
A sun that is the source of all our power
The sun and you and me, and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at 40,000 miles an hour
Of the galaxy we call the Milky Way

Our galaxy itself contains 100 billion stars
It's 100,000 light-years side-to-side
It bulges in the middle, 16,000 light-years thick
But out by us it's just 3000 light-years wide
We're 30,000 light-years from galactic central point
We go round every 200 million years
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whiz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light you know
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
Because there's bugger all down here on Earth

Amazotheamazing

Walk like an Egyptian, who hasn't reached out to that anthem in times of need?

tony1kenobi

OutlawPete wrote: »

What I think Madonna is saying here is, let's not just focus on our problems, but our solutions.

Many philosophers have made the mistake of assuming that Madonna was talking about "Holidays" here, when in fact she was doing anything but.

You know, in Like A Virgin....she was talking about f*cking a guy.....with...a...big.....dick......it hurt.....it hurt to f*ck this guy.....it hurt like the first time......hence......Like A Virgin.

Quentin Tarantino told me that.

mikemac

Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

Love that line

It was in 25th hour with Edward Norton and after that I learned it was lyrics from a song

OutlawPete

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Tommy used to work on the docks
Union's been on strike
He's down on his luck...it's tough, so tough

Indeed.

Lyrics that should inspire many who are today down on their luck also.

Another man's verses that too hailed from New Jersey, also wrote:

Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man

Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man said son if it was up to me
Went down to see my v.a. man
He said son, don't you understand

The song was written as an angry song, in response to the US government's foreign policy at the time of Vietnam, and how some men who faced prison time, were given the choice of the penitentiary or enlist in the army.

If any of these men were lucky enough to return home, they just got treated like disposable heroes, unwanted and unappreciated.

Would you believe that when Ronald Regan was running for President, his campaign team misunderstood what the song lyrics meaning were and took the chorus totally out of context and used it as the campaign song.
Moving on ..

Sometimes when I am feeling low and I find it hard to relate to people and the world around me, I find the the lyrics to the great A-Ha song, The Sun Always Shines on TV, to be a great comfort.


I reached inside myself and found
Nothing there to ease the
Pressures of my ever worrying mind.

All my powers waste away
I fear the crazed and lonely
Looks the mirror's sending me these days.


What I find amazing is how timeless these lyrics are today and how they are still as relevant today as they were 25 years ago.
They really were the Claude Debussy of their generation.

Jibbs

I'd rather jack, than Fleetwood Mac.
Probably the most sentient lyric of the 20th century. Especially if you replace 'jack' with 'fap'.

monkeyfudge

I know that I must do what's right,
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti

F*ck yeah!

Parsley

Sea Sharp wrote: »

Madonna doesn't write her own music so it's safe to assume that she has absolutely no idea what she's sh1ting on about whilst prancing around on stage like a fool.

she's actually pretty smart when it comes to writing and producing songs.

Jibbs

Parsley wrote: »

she's actually pretty smart when it comes to writing and producing songs.

Smart like a virgin.

Oranage2

Not sure what decade but great song and i try live my life everyday by it


"Soulja Boy Off In This Ho
Watch Me Crank It
Watch Me Roll
Watch Me Crank That Soulja Boy
Then Super Man Dat Ho"

THall04

But in the back of my head I heard distant feet
Che Guevara and Debussy to a disco beat

Táck

when the recent G20 copenhagen talks were happening, i was thinking how tears for fears had predicted this day back in the 80's, and nothing has changed really, even since then. some of the lyrics are timeless but the whole song imo has as much meaning today, just different leaders!

Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

I can't stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world

OutlawPete

With teenage pregnancy at such a high rate, not many of our stars had the guts to address the real issue: young slappers.

In the 80's, these young floozies were everywhere, looking to exploit young men (boys) and take their seed.

With pregnancy among young girls at all time high, young men could do worse that to look to the words of Jermaine Stewart to learn how to deal with these teen harlots:


"Just slow down if you want me
A man wants to be approached cool & romantically
I've got needs
Just like you
If the conversation's good
Vibrations through & through

"So come on baby, won't you show some class
Why you want to move so fast
We don't have to take outr clothes off
To have a good time
Oh no

"We could dance & party all night (all night)
And drink some cherry wine
Uh huh
Na na na na na na"

Kasabian

As Roland Orzabal once wrote.

"Mad World"

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

galwayrush

Sadly, it's happening agin...............:mad:

Wheels can take you around
Wheels can cut you down
We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets' red glare
Down to "Brother can you spare..."
Another war
Another wasteland
And another lost generation

bazmaiden

"Kiss me quick, I'm doubleparked" - Dave Lee Roth

Kimono-Girl

"Enola Gay, you should have stayed at home yesterday
Aha words can't describe the feeling and the way you lied

These games you play, they're gonna end in more than tears someday
Aha Enola Gay, it shouldn't ever have to end this way"

orourkeda

Celebrate. This pary's over. I'm going home.