Make it stop! I have songs stuck in my head and I want them out! I was tagged with a meme in which I was supposed to look up the top music hits from the year I turned 18. (I hate to even admit what any of these songs were, but I don’t think my age is really a secret here.) So now I have songs from the movie Footloose running through my head. In particular, it’s Deneice Williams singing Let’s Hear it for the Boy. And not only is that song scratching its fingernails down the chalkboard of my brain, but there’s also the vision of Christopher Penn (as ”Willard.” Who names their kid Willard anyway?) stomping around his little bedroom in his overalls, shaking the chandelier on the ceiling below while trying to teach himself rhythm. Maybe if I try hard enough I can at least replace it with the scene of Kevin Bacon dancing away his rage in a wife-beater and smoking a cigarette – a scandalous move in a town where dancing is against the law! (Kevin Bacon’s character’s name was Ren. Who writes this stuff? Ren? Seriously? Isn’t that a little bird? No wonder he was always getting picked on! But then again, Sarah Jessica Parker played “Rusty.” Someone got paid big money for this?)
I hate 80’s pop music, by the way. With. A. Passion.
And if 80’s music ear-worms aren’t enough, I’ve also got the School House Rock songs stuck in my head. You know:
Conjunction Junction, what’s your function…..? (I don’t know what conjuction’s function is. That’s the only part of the song I can remember.)
and
I’m just a bill. Yes, I’m only a bill. And I’m sittin’ here on Capitol Hill…. I just want to tell that little bill to stop his damn whining already!
I think I’m regressing. Send help please. Meditation techniques, psycotherapy perhaps….
territerri
34 Comments
May 22, 2007 at 10:20 am
hookin up words and phrases and clauses… me and my bro used to watch that early on sat morns.
And if they sign me I’ll become a laaaawwww.
May 22, 2007 at 10:49 am
I had that song stuck in my head before…now it’;s back dammmit!
Footloose is a song that should have every copy rounded up and put on a rocket bound for the sun.
May 22, 2007 at 11:30 am
I love 80’s music!! But more like the late 80’s though.
And oh yah, School House Rock! Reminds me of coming home from school, having a snack and watching The Brady Bunch, Fat Albert & Mr. Rogers.
Do you remember The Letter People?…or The Electric Company (I think that is what it was called anyway…)
Hey, we should all do a post on our favorite old TV shows!! I grew up on TV! We should do a Trivia thing like “who used to drink Milk & Pepsi?” or “who or what was Bo Bo kitty?” or “what is ‘vodiodedo’?”…Ok…I’ll stop now! :0)
May 22, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Logzie ~
1. Shirley Feeney on Laverne & Shirley
2. The cat that belonged to the little girl on Father Knows Best?
3. No idea.
I might do a post on t.v. shows… I was a t.v. addict!
May 4, 2009 at 1:45 pm
im still in the middle of my facebook profile.
i am going to add that part regarding favorite tv shows and movies, ill do it later. i also need to add apps and groups and foundations.
thanks for your patience.
cara lazar
May 22, 2007 at 12:45 pm
“Hey they sell men’s clothing where you bought that hat?”
Hate to admit it but I love that movie.
Thanks for etching the song in my skull. Paybacks are hell missy!
S
May 22, 2007 at 5:13 pm
The one I have stuck in my head is Like a Virgin…Madonna.
Hey…guess what? It’s gone now…it’s in your heads now. lol
May 22, 2007 at 8:26 pm
answers…
#1-you are correct
#2-Shirley Feeney’s black stuffed animal cat.
#3-Vodiododedo, or however it’s spelled is what Laverne and Shirley would refer to when they were talking about ‘messing around’ with guys.
May 22, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Hey Logzie, you know what? Milk and Pepsi was actually Laverne’s drink, not Shirleys. I just remembered that. No wonder I can’t maintain anything of importance in my brain. It’s filled with this useless stuff.
May 23, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Thanks for getting that stuck in my head now!!!!
December 18, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I can only remember 4 years of the 8 I lived through the 80’s. Looks like I missed some really corny, if not interesting, times.
I couldn’t have all been bad though.
Metallica was still awesome back then.
December 18, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I meant *it couldn’t have all been bad….
December 20, 2008 at 7:13 am
Lolly, Lolly, Lolly get your adverbs here.
December 23, 2008 at 6:34 pm
It’s a fine line between nostalgia and repressed audio trauma. As I’ve aged, much of the Wham! and Kenny Loggins has lost its lustre–but the Hair Bands still stand the test of time. (Does that make me sad?)
January 5, 2009 at 11:28 am
What’s sad, is that those 80’s hits are now being re-played on all the Moldy Oldy stations.
(As if they werent’ bad enough the first time around).
February 14, 2009 at 9:21 pm
AHH! For me the worst was the continuous fruity drone of the theme from Top Gun.
February 21, 2009 at 11:11 pm
The 80’s were good for something.
He-man and
Guns and Roses
February 22, 2009 at 12:22 am
I second He-Man… And She-Ra.
February 27, 2009 at 6:55 pm
That made me lol. I loved those little jingles! It reminds me of the theme songs like: ♪ Captain Planet, he’s a hero, gonna take pollution down to zero! ♪ (Even though that’s 90s stuff right thar.) Okay, I know more theme songs than I care to babble on about in a comment. lul.
March 8, 2009 at 12:44 pm
This is odd…your blog came up as one of those automatic links to one I just wrote, plus, you are linked to my friend spencercourt’s blog so I’ve read some of your stuff before. It’s too bad that now I’m going to have to plug my ears with my fingers and sing lalalala for a week. How dare you mention “Let’s Hear It For the Boy”. I am right backatcha with “Pinball Wizard”, which I just regrettably heard. “That deaf, dumb and blind kid…sure plays a mean pinball.” Try going to sleep with that in your brain.
March 8, 2009 at 3:15 pm
While I prefer 60’s and 70’s music since I came of age with that, the 80’s weren’t a complete disaster.
One tune I think about now that Spring is here for me, is “Walking on Sunshine.” Ya gotta dance to that! Here’s the video on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONhto0x_nI
Billy Idol is good. Elvis Costello did a lot of his music in the early 80s. I did enjoy the English New Wave, which was very strong in the 80s.
I’m not going to have much to say if you post about TV shows….I doubt too many readers recall Manila’s finest musical variety show: Patsy and Lopito. lol! Or, the 1960’s genesis of American idol: “Tawag Ng Tanghalan.” (I don’t even know what it means….)
March 15, 2009 at 11:41 am
Thanks now I can’t get those songs out of my head
March 24, 2009 at 6:28 am
Hehehe…here we go again. All roads lead to you. I’ve just posted a piece on my possible addiction to tea and when I checked out the WordPress suggestions of possibly associated links, this is where I’ve ended up. I’m not really seeing the link between your post here and a good British cuppa but, well, hello again!
April 4, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Footloose is one of the most awesomely bad movies of all time! Ariel? Seriously? “Jump back!”
Unfortunately, I read that this movie is being re-made, originally with Zac Effron, but he turned it down. I can only assume that he has a very smart agent. Yikes.
I admit that 80’s music is bad but I still love it.
April 23, 2009 at 10:02 am
How could you hate 80s music? It’s poppy and fun and there’s nothing like it! Plus, the 80s gave us the Princess Bride which is like the best movie ever.
So I’ll give the 80s a pass.
May 14, 2009 at 10:32 pm
Man, I love the 80’s.
May 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm
I love ’80s music– The Cure, Souxsie and the Banshees, Husker Du…. it’s just too bad that I didn’t listen to much of the really great ’80s music until the ’90s! During the ’80s, I was busy listening to “underground” music of the ’60s and punk rock of the ’70s. Always a bit out of step with the times…
May 22, 2009 at 3:13 pm
*Siouxsie,* that is!
June 6, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Why do you have “” at the end of almost every sentence? It makes the post frustrating to read.
Also, I like some 80’s music, but not much. Probably because the majority of 80’s music that I have heard is on my mom’s iPod… and she has terrible taste in music.
July 11, 2009 at 11:07 am
How can you NOT like Footloose? The 80’s were chock full of mindless music nuggets. And by today’s standards…much more fun. But to each his/her own. I can understand the frustration…especially when you get a crappy song like “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” knockin’ on your noggin…LOL
July 13, 2009 at 11:39 pm
The worst thing about the ’80’s music was the lame “white boy blues” stuff the degenerated from the late ’70’s movie Blues Brothers.
Huey Lewis, John Parr, Bruce Willis, and John McCafferty & the Beaver Brown band… arrrggh! It also was a good time to be old and bald, just ask Phil Collins, Billy Vera, and Midnight Oil. [Though I liked M.O.]
The hair metal was pretty harmless, though it was disturbing that most of those musicians were far prettier than the girls I had a shot of dating in high school. [Warrant was like the Bay City Rollers of their time.]
July 19, 2009 at 11:06 am
Okey, have to bring it up! The late king of pop, had owned the 80’s but his songs never got stuck in your head. THRILLER was a monster hit, but it never was a song that you hummed all day.
Hoboe campfires include harmonizing some classics; ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST.
November 20, 2009 at 7:01 am
80’s couldnt have been that bad – launched the music career of George Michael, Madonna and Kylie among others ..
November 21, 2009 at 1:34 am
the fact of the matter is that music/television/media is all filled with programming and subliminal messages. how else do you explain an insipid song like “single ladies” taking the world by storm?
turn off the television, the new world order wants us dumb/def/blind so they can take control of us.
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