80s @ MindSay

This week (Monday, Wednesday and  Friday) of 80's songs have been requested by andreux.  We start off with a song that people called blasphemous! I never felt the song was blasphemous.  I've always felt the song  was about someone so controlling and domineering that he wants the object of his desire to feel like he's her savior. He wants her to confide ALL in him and believe in him. Keep in mind that this band already had a hit song called Master and Servant, a nice little ditty about S&M.  The 80's  SONG OF THE DAY is...

Personal Jesus (1989)
by Depeche Mode
Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone whos there

Feeling unknown
And youre all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
Ill make you a believer

Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal jesus...

Feeling unknown
And youre all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
Ill make you a believer

I will deliver
You know Im a forgiver

Reach out and touch faith

Your own personal jesus

Reach out and touch fait

This one's a little mellow. Maybe a bit too mellow for the start of the work week, but now every time I hear this song I giggle and think of J.D. from Scrubs. The 80's SONG of THE DAY is....

Africa (1982)
by Toto





I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
Shes coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancient melodies
He turned to me as if to say, hurry boy, its waiting there for you

Chorus:
Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Theres nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had

The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do whats right
Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti
I seek to cure whats deep inside, frightened of this thing that Ive become

Chorus

(instrumental break)

Hurry boy, shes waiting there for you

Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
Theres nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in africa, I bless the rains down in africa
I bless the rains down in africa, I bless the rains down in africa
I bless the rains down in africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had








J.D. crankin' up the Toto

i like music. And most of my favorite bands broke up in the 80s... and i love the personal relationship with the audience. like you can see live videos and the people are up there with them. I want to start a band and be able to do that with my crowd. but I am not too impressed with today's bands per se. i see them but i don't know what I am listening to when they are 50 feet up in the air away from the crowd at a concert. What is that? i don't know. But it makes me laugh similarly because i had the mistake of watching a Veronicas video. And they have the video going where they play with their fans like 5 feet away. I know they won't do that in real life. I know you Veronicas. You won't let me get within five feet of you.

Some deem them outlandish, while others have devoted websites to the current popular trend known as "emo" or "scene" hair. Reminiscent of 80's fashion, the most typical emo hair style is an androgynous lopsided cut with highlights to create an asymmetrical effect.

Though these hairstyles are considered trends of teenage culture, they can be known to be very elegant looks such as on former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham and popstar Rihanna. What is so unnatural about these two beautiful ladies?  Science says symmetry.

Studies have been done since the early 90's proving that symmetry is what makes a person attractive, and now Professor Marcus du Sautoy of Oxford University is speaking out about the particular hairstyle, which began nearly three decades ago.

He plans to argue his case at the upcoming Cheltenham Science Festival, based on the facts that in nature, diseased mothers often bear asymmetrical young, making their health an issue when it comes to choosing the right mate.

Is beauty really skin deep or do these facts hold truth? Do humans still reserve primordial instincts when it comes to who they love? Or can we really judge a book by its cover?

This post was contributed by cas 

Time to brush off those fly moves ya'll! It's Friday so I felt like dancing.  Man, Environgirl and I used to get our dance on to this groove!   I love today's song because it samples one of my favorite Parlament Funkadelic songs, "Not Just Knee Deep".  The 80's SONG OF THE DAY is...

 

 

Me, Myself and I (1989)

by De La Soul