I'm sick of the eighties!

[Deebank]

Denim had a take on the eighties... they were against them.

It has to be added that Lawrence had an agenda here as his previous band (Felt) had released 10 LPs and 10 singles in the eighties but achieved nothing more than the cultiest of successes which wasn't really good enough when what you really deserved was world domination. He also takes a swipe at Duran Duran's guitarist who he went to school with... at the time of writing the lyrics probably rang true, but I guess he's got the last laugh now. Anyway:

I’m against the ‘80s I don’t care what you say
I’m against the ‘80s you don’t listen to me anyway
well I’m for the ‘70s –oh- and for the ‘90s too
yeah I’m against the ‘80s girl look what they’ve done to you

I made a new sound and they put it underground
it was a thunderbolt crash they said it’s never going to last in the ‘80s

we’re victims of the ‘80s yeah you and me girl
deflated by the ‘80s getting caught up in its social whirl
you should have seen me in the ‘70s I was different then
oh but those times have gone and they ain’t never coming back again

so I formed myself a band and I toured it ‘round the land
I took a look around there was nothing going down in the ‘80s

remember in the ‘70s when we were at school
hangin’ out with the older boys bending all the little rules
remember in the ’73 yeah you and me
in a little wood leaning up against the tree

if the truth’s to be told then we were 12 years old
they say crime doesn’t pay but it surely did that day in the ‘70s,
yeah yeahyeah

I’m against the ‘80s duran duran
fake make-up boys the rum-runner clan
I knew you when you were at school you were nothing then
and when you left the band you were nothing again
you bought yourself a farm and you looked about as calm
as a man who’s going to freak ‘cause an earthquake’s hit his street in the ‘80s

well I’m against the ‘80s bands that couldn’t play
I’m against the ‘80s singers with nothing to say
you heard it on the radio you saw it on the tv
you still went and bought it thought – aah it amazes me

you wouldn’t know know style if it ran you up the aisle
you couldn’t spot a star if he came within a mile of the ‘80s

I’m looking forward to the ‘90s yeah I’ve got a new girl
we’re into ravesignal III ‘cos “we’re in love with the modern world”
I’m sick of winklepicker kids mary chain debris
I’ve just had enough of that nah it doesn’t interest me

I’ve made a new sound this ain’t going underground
it’s a thunderbolt crash concerns the future and the past
but not the ‘80s no not the ‘80s we’re talkin' 'bout the ‘80s.

[copehead]

Ha Ha

Thread Killer

Good song though, and, ironically, it sounds so 80s

But I thought the main thrust of the thread was how crap the Prof's haircut and trousers were

[NancyL21st]

can one of the admin move this to 'classic threads' at some point, please?

it's a belting read.

My thoughts exactly!

[The Modernist]

Good goddamn y'all, the world is just a little bit under the weather. I just saw Duran Duran "Girls On Film" on VH1 and it sounded utterly contemporary.

Not a bad song, actually.

I was in a record shop today when this came on and before I knew what I was really doing i found myself singing along with the chorus -aloud!!
Very odd behaviour at the best of times, but especially odd as I don't even like it, or thought I didn't -perhaps I really do.

[moonie]

You know, the Reivers only barely made it beyond the 80's, but since they were sooooooo far ahead of their time....

[moonie]

:roll:

Oh shut up. If it weren't for the 80's, Toto would never have had a chance in hell.

[BARON CORNY DOG]

There's a motion on the floor. And we have a second!

[The Red Heifer]

There's a motion on the floor. And we have a second!

Either house train it or get it outside.

[The Prof]

Classic Threads you say?

* scratches imaginary beard of disbelief*

[Spandau Billy]

The eighties were my vermillion orchard. Money can't buy that.