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

  • 06-09-2010 11:18pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭


    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.


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Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    You been smokin' de ganja again, Pete?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭RolandIRL


    you listen to madonna. how embarassing for you :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    In these increasingly difficult times,

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭FunkZ


    Where the fcuk is me jumper?


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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,944 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I think Bucks Fizz had the right idea when they said this,
    Don't let your indecisions take you from behind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    She got legs,
    She knows how to use them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


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

    Sorry, I know this is early 90s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭AssaultedPeanut


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


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,776 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


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

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭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).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,533 ✭✭✭Donkey Oaty


    Don't.















    Don't you want me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭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: :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 386 ✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Am I living in a box

    Am I living in a cardboard box


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭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!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,924 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,146 ✭✭✭trellheim


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭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"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,769 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    This means nothing to me.

    Oh, Vienna.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 10,758 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,146 ✭✭✭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 ]


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 10,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,048 ✭✭✭Amazotheamazing


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,969 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭Jibbs


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


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


    F*ck yeah!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 65 ✭✭Jibbs


    Parsley wrote: »
    she's actually pretty smart when it comes to writing and producing songs.

    Smart like a virgin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭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"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 266 ✭✭THall04


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,744 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭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"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭bazmaiden


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭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"

    :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


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


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