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We all got shitty on rum and coke
Who doesn’t love We Built This City by Starship? Well, probably lots of people. But we here at Songspeak do.
My co-worker has alternate lyrics for the chorus, though, that she sang either back in high school or college. Instead of “we built this city on rock and roll”, they used to sing, “we all got shitty on rum and coke“. And though we occupy different offices at work, we both typically have mix 93.1 playing throughout the day, and whenever the song comes on, she’ll usually send me an IM with her alternate lyrics.
***Note: This is NOT my co-worker.
It’s nice to know that long before the term songspeak was conceived, people were songspeaking their hearts out.
Tags: 80s music, alternate lyrics, IM, instant message, mix 93.1, starship, we all got shitty, we all got shitty on rum and coke, we built this city, we built this city on rock and roll
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Seether covers Careless Whisper
Rock band Seether, known mainly for their songs Broken and Remedy, have released a cover of Wham!’s 80’s classic Careless Whisper. And it’s not half bad:Seether is already partway to becoming Wham! themselves. I mean, three-quarters of the band are already about as well known and recognizable as Andrew Ridgeley. All lead singer Shaun Morgan needs to do is get caught having sex with some dude in a public restroom or be stopped while driving high on the weed, and the transformation will be complete.
Tags: 00s music, 80s music, andrew ridgeley, broken, careless whisper, cover, Dale Stewart, george michael, John Humphrey, remedy, seether, shaun morgan, Troy McLawhorn, wham
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I Always Feel Like, Geico’s Watchin’ Me
Geico’s done it again. They’ve put together yet another clever ad campaign that I get a kick out of. I can’t think of another company/product with so many simultaneous great ad campaigns, but it works for them. There’s the Geico gecko, the “so easy a caveman could do it“, the celebrities-assist-in-telling-an-accident story, and now the being-watched-by-the-money-you-could-be-saving campaign:
The best part about these commercials is that they utilize the 1984 Rockwell classic Somebody’s Watching Me. I used to love the video when I was a kid:
Chalk this up as another advertising win for Geico. I may not use them for my car insurance, but I sure do love their quirky out-there commercials. And any company that uses Rockwell in their commercials is gold, Jerry, gold.
Tags: 00s tv commercials, 80s music, car insurance, geico, geico commercial, geico gecko, gold jerry gold, jerry seinfeld, kash, kenny bania, money you could be saving with Geico, money you could save by switching to geico, rockwell, so easy a caveman could do it, somebody's watching me
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The Prince of F*cking Darkness since 1979
Has anyone seen the new World of Warcraft commercial with Ozzy Osbourne?
It’s riddled with songspeaks. Most notably when he shouts, “All aboard! Ha ha ha ha!”, and then when he suggests the director has been riding a crazy train.
Who knew an octegenarian rocker like Ozzy played a MMORPG? One thing this commercial does prove, though, is that after all these years, Ozzy still rocks sweet balls and can do no wrong.
Tags: 00s tv commercials, 80s music, all aboard, crazy train, massively multiplayer online role-playing game, MMORPG, ozzy osbourne, prince of darkness, we rock sweet balls and can do no wrong, world of warcraft
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Macy’s Rickrolls us all on Thanksgiving
You may have noticed we took a break for the holiday last week here at Songspeak. You know who didn’t take a break? Rick Astley.
I thought I was safe. You know, watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC while we’re getting ready for the day. Waiting for Matt Lauer, Al Roker, or Meredith Vieira to tell me what float, performer, or balloon was passing by at any given moment.
Then a float came by for some new show on the Cartoon Network called Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. I wish I’d heard Matt Lauer’s warning that there would be a musical surprise when I initially watched it, maybe then I could have braced myself for something. But alas, I was vulnerable.
So these puppets start singing some cutesy song. Fair enough. What happened next made me feel violated beyond anything I could have ever imagined. In the middle of their song, a record scratch is heard, and then, well…see for yourself:
I was in my own home. It was Thanksgiving. I thought I was safe. How wrong I was. Rick Astley and those bastards at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade pulled one over on me. They pulled one over on all of us. I wonder now whether I should even watch TV or leave the house anymore.
The only saving graces were Rick Astley’s expression when he sings, “Never gonna run around and desert you!”, the fact that those kids dancing on the float were born well after that song was released and probably have no idea who Rick Astley is, and the fact that probably 80% of the people at the parade had absolutely no clue what was going on.
The kicker was the announcer at the end talking about how that was “Rick Astley singing the rickrolling phenom”. He may as well have said, “That was Rick Astley. And I’m such a square.”
So just be careful. You never know when it’s going to happen. If it can happen to Vince McMahon, it can happen to anyone.
As for me, I’ll be thankful when that God-awful fad goes away for good.
Tags: 80s music, al roker, cartoon network, foster's home for imaginary friends, macy's thanksgiving day parade, matt lauer, meredith vieira, nbc, never gonna give you up, puppets, rick astley, rick roll, rickroll, thanksgiving, vince mcmahon
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She’s a Sheena Glover
Within the first year of Matt and I working together at Silver Screen Design, we discovered the joy of odd and unfortunately hilarious customer names. It’s bound to happen when you deal with as many people on a daily basis as we do.
Anyway, one of Matt’s customers was named Sheena Glover, who at the time worked for Georgia Southern University. I remember when he first got off the phone with her, he started singing, “She’s a Sheena Glover…” to the tune of Easy Lover by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey. Whenever he talked to her, he’d sing this afterwards.
We still sing it, to this day. Even though we haven’t heard from Sheena Glover in years, she’s still in our hearts.
Tags: 80s music, chinese wall, danny glover, easy lover, funny names, georgia southern university, odd names, phil collins, philip bailey, she's an easy lover, sheena easton, sheena glover, silver screen design
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Just like the one-winged dove
Having only one wing makes it exeedingly difficult to fly
I didn’t really become familiar with Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks until I started working at Silver Screen Design, because I simply hadn’t heard it that much in my youth. And whenever I did hear it on the radio (which happened quite often), I always thought she was singing, “Just like the one-winged dove”, and I thought, “That’s weird, I guess”.
Then one day it clicked. I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it before, being the avid bird nerd that I am. She was singing “WHITE-winged dove” (followed by a stellar bird call of “whoo whoo whoo”).
But apparently, I’m not the only one who heard that particular line wrong. A daughter of a co-worker of mine thought it was the same thing, among others.
Edge of Seventeen? More like Edge of Articulation, Stevie.
Tags: 80s music, bird nerd, edge of seventeen, one winged dove, stevie nicks, white winged dove
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I fight with Dorothy and Dorothy always wins
When I was young lad, I used to think that the chorus of John Cougar Mellencamp’s Authority Song contained the lyrics, “I fight with Dorothy and Dorothy always wins”. It was one of those things where I was too young to know what authority even was and that he was actually singing “I fight authority, authority always wins”.I forget when the moment of realization occurred later in life, but I was reminded of this song yesterday while Kristen and I were walking around the Pioneer Valley Flea Market and it was playing on the radio.
Tags: 80s music, authority song, i fight authority, i fight with dorothy, john cougar mellencamp, pioneer valley flea market
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Tragedy: A metal tribute to the Bee Gees
There is a band trying to “decimate” the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts on Thursday, October 16th. This band is Tragedy, the “all metal” tribute to the Bee Gees. Someone posted a link to Tragedy’s myspace on MassLive’s SoundBoard forum and it looks like they’re AWESOME.They play 80s metal versions of popular Bee Gees songs like Stayin’ Alive, Jive Talkin’, How Deep Is Your Love, More Than A Woman, Tragedy, and others.
From MetroMix:
How does one combine heavy metal and the Bee Gees?
It’s easy: We love disco, and we love metal. On the surface, they’re polar opposites, sort of like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, I guess. But it works, and it’s fun to go against the grain.How did you get so popular so quickly? You’re headlining an 1100 capacity venue.
We’re fucking awesome, that’s the main thing. As we like to say, we rock sweet balls and do no wrong.What’s with the popularity of tribute bands now?
Our success doesn’t really come from the tribute band scene. We play with some, like this weekend, but we play with some non-tribute bands as well; we’ve played with jam bands like Umphrey’s McGee and punk bands like Murphy’s Law. This isn’t a standard tribute—I mean, it’s songs people know, and that does help—but it’s a concept turned on its head.Who’s your fanbase?
It varies. See, I think almost everyone like the Bee Gees, and almost everyone loves heavy metal, either genuinely or an ironic way. Admittedly, we don’t get many hardcore Bee Gees fans, but they have a universal appeal.What’s your stage show like?
It’s mayhem. We have the three brothers up front, singing, playing cowbells, wearing tight white satin. And we have our beautiful back-up singers: Women’s Gibb, Angelpussy, Olivia Newton-Chong and Linda Gibb. Oh, and we have an intern/towel boy named Lance. He’s kind of an idiot.Tragedy has an album coming out on October 20th called “We Rock Sweet Balls And Can Do No Wrong”.
You can hear many of the songs on their website, letsmaketragedyhappen.com. Here’s a video for “Stayin’ Alive”…Tags: 70s music, 80s music, bee gees, decimate, disco, heavy, how deep is your love, iron horse, jive talkin, let's make tragedy happen, massachusetts, metal, more than a woman, new york city, northampton, nyc, stayin alive, tragedy, tribute band, we rock sweet balls and can do no wrong
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The Spirit of Freaks and Geeks
Watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall this past weekend and How I Met Your Mother on Monday got me to thinking about Jason Segal’s start on Freaks and Geeks, and some of the more classic moments from that show. Awhile back, Matt posted about Nick serenading Lindsey with the Styx classic Lady.
Well, one of my favorite Nick moments from Freaks and Geeks is when he’s drumming along with Spirit of the Radio by Rush. One would think he’s doing an awesome job, until his dad comes down the stairs and you get the perspective of the outside observer.
This scene is so great because not only is it an awesome song, but who hasn’t been singing along to the car radio, or doing karaoke, and thinking they sound awesome, when, in reality, they’re awful?
(Lostaholics note: John Locke’s dad makes a cameo in this clip!)
Tangential anecdote: Jo and I once shared a flight to Australia with Jason Segal (thankfully, it didn’t crash on a mysterious island). We noticed him waiting in the Auckland, New Zealand airport on our layover along with the rest of the passengers from our plane. Which is funny because the night before we had watched Can’t Hardly Wait in the hotel room, and he has a small cameo in that. And now, thanks to Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I’ve seen his penis.
Tags: 00s movies, 80s music, 90s movies, 90s tv, anthony cooper, auckland, australia, can't hardly wait, flight, forgetting sarah marshall, freaks and geeks, how i met your mother, jason segal, jason segal's penis, john locke, john locke's dad, karaoke, kevin tighe, lady, lady of the morning, lindsey, lost, lostaholics, new zealand, nick, rush, singing along to the car radio, spirit of the radio, styx, terry o'quinn
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