I can't even believe that Whitney Houston is dead. Whitney may not have been the most stable of people, but for kids that grew up in the 1980's, her star power seemed rock solid. She was everywhere, even if you weren't trying to find her. I'm sure I've done a tremendous variety of things while Whitney Houston's music was playing...but nothing would be as perfect as looking at those weird hairstyle books at the salon while your mom gets a perm.
It's sad that Whitney never got her big comeback moment.
Wow, I didn't mean to take a break for exactly two months, but I guess that is exactly what I did. The fall was a lot busier than anticipated!
Sunday Songs is different this week. It's just a little commentary on something I've been thinking about.
Irritating (Normally I would say "happy" or "sad" but those really don't apply.): Various Artists- Lady Marmalade
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about "Lady Marmalade." It seems like I have heard some version of it every day for the past week or so on the radio. Luckily I haven't heard the 2001 abomination starring Twisted Sister Christina Aguilera where they claim that they are just "independent women" and not prostitutes. Hearing it so frequently is unfortunate, since I cannot stand this song. In fact, there is only one version of the song that I can bear at all.
(Can I just say how much I love that this video is called "Sexy Beethoven Lady"?!)
Sunday Songs is back! Here's my take on two telephone reliant songs.
SAD: Don Henley- Heart of the Matter
I had totally forgotten (or was completely ignorant of the fact) that Don Henley had long hair! And, yes, another Don Henley song.
This is the most mature break up song ever. I guess it doesn't hurt that "an old, true friend" is calling on the phone. That doesn't exactly make the whole thing sound as if it's about a teenager. I guess this would be more of a divorce song?
If this is a divorce song, then I'm going to imagine it being perfect for a woman wearing brown stir- up pants coming home from work (where she makes telemarketing calls regarding Reader's Digest) after being served with divorce papers.
HAPPY: Stevie Wonder- I Just Called to Say I Love You
There's no arguing with the fact that this is a happy song. Especially since it sounds like Stevie sings "No Lee Press-Ons, No Halloween." Did anyone else ever used to always see solitary Lee Press-On nails in bathroom stalls all the time in the '80s? Years later, it is just now occurring to me how they fell off in the first place.
To me, this song will always remind me of the Girl Scout Convention. While we were waiting for the main program to start, there was a man that was performing the song in sign language. I was probably in first grade and I distinctly remember asking my mom if that was the guy that really sang the song (I would not have been able to identify Stevie Wonder by name). Alas, the warm up act at the Virginia Girl Scout Convention was not really Stevie Wonder.
Next week, I'm going to be trying a new format for Sunday Songs. I'm excited! :)
I hope everyone along in Irene's path is safe and has power today! I'm grateful that some of my favorite beaches have survived! Today's theme for Sunday Songs has to be hurricane related. Here's my take on two rain related songs.
SAD: Eurythmics- Here Comes the Rain Again
I'm curious if other children found Annie Lenox as terrifying as I did. In an era where plenty of music sounds like it's coming from a spaceship, the Eurythmics still sounded otherworldly. Not to mention the fact that she's the creepier of the two people in this video, and the other one is clearly a crazed stalker with a video camera.
To me, this song is about not getting what you want and need from the object of your affection. I'm thinking the rain could be a symbol for sadness, or even madness (we are talking about an Annie Lenox song/video here). Whatever it is, it keeps sweeping in like a storm.
The most appropriate way to hear this song would be coming out of your clock radio as it wakes you up for the first day of 6th grade. It's still dark outside and you're worried about opening your locker. Hearing Annie Lenox isn't helping.
HAPPY: Johnny Nash- I Can See Clearly Now
I have never seen leather and cheerios in quite this combination before.
This song doesn't need much analysis. "Sunshiney"=happy. I cannot immediately think of any particular nostalgic movie starring children and narrated by Tom Hanks that had this on the soundtrack, but there have to be at least three. Speaking of that type of movie, Bobby (below, left) from "Radio Flyer" has to have been one of the most adorable children ever.
While I was looking for that picture, I read the disturbing theory that Bobby actually dies at the end of "Radio Flyer!" The director says that's not the case, but I can see the basis of the theory.
Ahem, anyway, there are not many scenarios where hearing this song would be inappropriate. I guess you wouldn't want to hear it if you were being stalked by a madman (or The Eurythmics) and this is your ringtone, ringing and thus alerting him/her/them to your exact location. Ugh.
The Wilson Phillips Edition: it was bound to happen sooner or later. Here's my take on two songs from either end of the emotional spectrum.
SAD: Wilson Phillips- You're in Love
First of all, NEVER say on your answering machine that you're leaving town for several months. Hello, looters and squatters!
Also, why is it that I have virtually no idea about the identity of the member of this band is who is not Chynna Phillips or Carnie Wilson? I think she's a Wilson, but beyond that she's a mystery. She's like the lost member.
Anyway, this song is clearly sad. Wilson Phillips are having to let go of someone they loved, but are glad that the person has found true happiness. What a Wilson Phillips way to approach the situation! I really can't think of anyone else that could so selflessly give up their old flame and be happy for them than a group of young women who are always wearing brown and singing in the Grand Canyon.
This was/is a song for working at Dress Barn (my first instinct was DEB, but I always say that) after school at around 5:15. You're stocking a bunch of blouses that have buttons on the front, but don't actually come unbuttoned. Your thoughts are alternating between how weird it feels to be graduating this year and the person you used to date/dreamed of dating. On your break, you'll slowly walk to the food court and spend way too much at Sbarro.
HAPPY: Wilson Phillips- Hold On
This is a song for everyone; the depressed, the downtrodden, the mall walkers. Seriously though, this song needs to be played much more often. It needs to be played any time anyone is feeling melancholy (which means Wilson Phillips needs to listen to it right after they sing the song featured above).
Chynna Phillips' ferocious lip-sync here definitely represents the joyous nature of this song. See also: Wilson Phillips stomping down the boardwalk in time to the music. See also: Bridesmaids.
This is a song for driving to the nearest beach town after school (when it is still too cold to really enjoy the beach) and discussing your (unlikely) plans for the summer. Or, you could use it to psych yourself up to overcome your agoraphobia.
Last week's Sunday Songs was half missing, but this week I managed to choose two videos! Here's my interpretation of this week's sad and happy songs.
SAD: Tom Petty- "Free Falling"
This song always made me so depressed, and the video certainly never helped.
For one thing, the lyrics are pretty patronizing. "Good girls" are mentioned several times, though the part about "loving horses and her boyfriend, too" is also particularly amusing. It makes the woman he's talking about seem so naive.
The general tone seems to be a strong disinterest about life. "I wanna free fall out into nothing, I wanna leave this world for a while." Well, go ahead I guess. Hopefully the "good girl" can find someone who's not a bad boy.
Also, the skateboarding outfit is really, really sad.
HAPPY: Nancy Sinatra- "Up, Up and Away"
I love this song. I just love it. It's pretty ridiculous and sounds like it was written for an episode of "Today's Special," but it's just such a happy song.
Being sixteen and getting your driver's license isn't even the kind of happiness this song contains. I guess it would be similar to being a Care Bear and finding out you are getting a new cloud car or something. It's like being one of Captain Planet's Planeteers and finding a very large group of what was considered to be an endangered species. It's like winning on Nickelodeon GUTS and then taking a ride in Willy Wonka's flying elevator. It's pretty good.
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I'll be back soon with a Souvenir Stash post, Try It Tuesday and Wednesday Wants. :)
I'm currently suffering from some kind of stomach virus, so it seemed only right to have a sick songs edition. Sadly enough (I guess), there's little to choose from when it comes to songs about feeling physically sick. We'll have to settle for a song about discomfort due to non-physical ailments.
HAPPY: Belinda Carlisle- I Get Weak
Despite the fact that this video could have been a contributing factor to those black and white photos with a pop of color (sorry, not a fan!), it is overwhelmingly happy.
The message is pretty clear, so this one doesn't need too much analysis of the lyrics. The video isn't quite so straightforward. I know she says that her "tongue is tied," but she doesn't really need a satin gag. All that hair tousling reminds me of those haircut books at Hair Cuttery!
Wow, hold the phone! I was just doing some research on the identity of the gentleman in this video and discovered that Diane Keaton directed this video. REALLY?! Why?
Anyway, the concept is cute in that it implies that Belinda finds herself extremely lucky to be with the guy. When she is in the shots with him in the end, it's because she was sucked into some black and white screen idol world where the other ladies can't follow.
This week Don Henley makes his triumphant return to the sad song list! I'm sure I have at least one more untapped Henley reference, and that's not even counting "Sunset Grill."
Anyway, to me this song is about how something is about to slip away, never to be retrieved. In this case, the object in question is "our love." It's clever to equate their love with the summer because everyone alive can relate. Summers are generally considered to be a time filled with fun and unusual things that probably wouldn't happen in other seasons. Not to mention that the "summer" portion of your life is the time that you reach adolescence and would be likely to experience your first love. Impressive underlying associations, Don Henley!
This is the perfect song for closing time when you're working at an outlet mall near a seasonal town during the fall. It's starting to get darker earlier as you fold all those t-shirts. You're starting to need a coat to travel home. So when the radio starts playing this song, everything seems especially depressing.
HAPPY: Thin Lizzy- The Boys Are Back In Town
To counteract all that Don Henley, here's one of the happiest songs ever!
It's so easy to have happy feelings about a song that has been in nearly every movie ever made. Correction: it's been in every movie ever made since it was written.
It seems that various accounts exist regarding the meaning behind the song, but they all relate to men coming home from a life changing event (i.e. war). It's an obviously upbeat song, but it also has the comforting idea that you CAN go home again. People and places haven't changed! Everyone missed you! And we all know that sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.
I would love this song even if it was awful, due to the following lyrics:
And that time over at Johnny's place
Well this chick she got up and slapped Johnny's face
This week's grouping is random for sure, but also enjoyable.
SAD: Richard Marx- Right Here Waiting
My most vivid memory of Richard Marx is how I seemed to be the only person in my 4th grade class who even knew he existed. We were at some kind of assembly, and I mentioned this very song and the girls I was sitting with (who could be be described as my frenemies for the school year) acted as though he was my imaginary friend. I was never the type to have an imaginary friend (or even use a different name during games), but if I was, I would NOT have created Richard Marx. For one thing, he must have been at least 26 by that point. Also, he always seems so depressed!
Maybe he and Bonnie Raitt should have gotten together . . . on second thought, Bonnie was way too realistic for him. At least she knows she can't make someone love her if they don't and can't make their heart beat something it won't.
This is the kind of song that will forever be playing on Delilah's radio show. If you don't have the pleasure of having Delilah broadcasting in your area, you may have someone else that hosts a show where people can call in and talk about how tonight is their 11th wedding anniversary and request a special song be played for their lady. Then Delilah will play "A Whole New World" from Aladdin.
It should be completely obvious by this point that this song is nothing but sad.
(I just have to mention that the site that I referenced the lyrics on for this song says that almost 600,000 people have used the site to read these lyrics in little over a year. Yeah, that sounds totally accurate.)
HAPPY: Baltimora- Tarzan Boy
By contrast, this song isn't anything but happy! I can't really remember hearing it when it came out, though I am sure I did. Perhaps I heard it on my one lone visit to Chuck E. Cheese for a birthday party as I wiped the pooled grease off of my pizza or first heard the Pop Rocks and Coke myth from someone's older sister. It is nothing if not the sort of song that will make children go crazy and jump up and down. It would be the perfect soundtrack for a toy run:
I have a lot of residual jealousy towards this kid.
Today's Sunday Songs is not only the Laura Branigan edition by special request, but my 50th blog post!
SAD: Laura Branigan- Gloria
I'm so confused about this one. Laura Branigan is presenting this is such a gleeful manner and the words are so...something. Saying "I think they got your number, I think they got the alias that you've been livin' under" seems to be a classier way to call someone trash. Laura seems to think that Gloria is a desperate woman who needs to learn to value herself. She also suggests that Gloria hears voices and is "headed for a breakdown" . . . and she does it in such a happy way! Gloria must totally be her enemy.
I'm sure quite some time ago as a little kid that didn't understand lyrics, I may have danced around to this song while getting ready for Halloween or something. It has such a happy tone and Laura is wearing such a happy sequiny thing, but it is so,so sad.
HAPPY: Laura Branigan- Self Control
Laura Branigan sure has a funny way of showing her emotions. Above she happily tears into poor, trashy Gloria and here she is all morose about being in love with someone. Confusion reigns!
Speaking of confusion reigning, have you seen this video?! There is no other way to describe it other than "absolutely insane." There's some kind of masked swingers dance club with an aluminum foil floor and that's one of the least weird things.
I think this song is happy because it reminds me of a time where all the clothes in the front of DEB were hung on these weird chains made of rings that hung from the ceiling. It was like walking through a forest of '80s fashion. If we're talking about something that could have actually happened while I heard this song, then I could have been hiding under one of the racks of stir-up pants in the back with my sister.
With this particular selection, I prefer to imagine that this is a song that the DEB salesgirl liked to listen to as she counted the lace headbands in preparation for inventory at closing time on a Thursday night in November. She's thinking about some guy she likes that she met at a bar while the theme from "St. Elmo's Fire" was playing, and that song could make anyone get carried away with their feelings. She's going to go home and call him from the princess phone underneath her "Electric Youth" poster and on top of her black and mirrored laquer light wood wicker nightstand. Maybe they can get an Orange Julius on her break tomorrow night.
This week's sad and happy songs/ memories come from TV theme songs!
SAD: Family Ties Theme
Few shows confused me more than "Family Ties." It made me terribly uncomfortable after the episode where the mom and dad were in some play and the mom had to kiss a stranger. I could be wrong, but I also seem to remember that she was fighting an attraction to this co-star. Also, someone was wearing an awful leather jacket with fringe on it in the play. Troubling!
Anyway, this song just seems so depressing . . . like they all just had a big fight and now they've decided they may as well make up. I know Michael J. Fox was a huge heartthrob during this time, but it always seemed more like a show for adults. I much preferred the show that goes along with this week's happy song!
HAPPY: Perfect Strangers Theme Song
It's so strange that a show about two grown men would have a theme song all about following your dreams!
"Perfect Strangers" was the original T.G.I.F. headliner (for my age group), and my sister and I were totally devoted to anything playing on that station between 8 and 10pm (and sometimes even 20/20). Larry and Balki had such hilarious slapstick antics that always cracked me up. My favorite episode is when they promised to stay on this deodorant billboard until the Chicago Bulls won a game. (Here's part one if you're curious!)
Sad theme songs are not my cup of tea. They should all take notes from "Perfect Strangers!"
This week had to be all Glen Campbell after I read that he is suffering from Alzheimer's and is planning a farewell tour. I'm sure this is a nearly impossible time for him and his family, but I'm so glad that he's got the opportunity to fulfill his wish of touring one more time.
"Wichita Lineman" is a song with such potent, lovesick lyrics and timeless music that it's sort of eerie. It was the best thing from a documentary that my husband and I watched about five years ago. I may have heard it before that point, but during the movie it gripped me instantly and we scoured the credits to find out who sang it. Clearly, this viewing pre-dated the shazam app.
It's a song that will always be a classic.
HAPPY: Glen Campbell- Rhinestone Cowboy
If a "rhinestone cowboy, riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo" doesn't automatically classify something as happy, I don't know what would.
This song is like the country version of "Fame." The lyric about how he will be "getting cards and letters from people he doesn't even know" really makes me smile. An era before you could just become someone's fan on facebook to try and reach them seems so long ago, even though technology was something that has changed drastically within my own lifetime. (Thankfully, computers have advanced a bit though so I'm not just still playing as the Von Schmidt Family on a version of Double Dare you had to run using a DOS command. Nothing translated to a computer game worse than Double Dare.)
It's a message that can apply to everyone- things may be hard sometimes, but they'll get much, much better.
I hope that Glen Campbell's last recordings and tour are everything he needs and wants.
Today's Sunday Songs is a special edition. What's more special that pre-plastic surgery Kenny Rogers?! This one's for you, Dad!
SAD: Kenny Rogers- Coward of the County
My dad has always loved country music, so I grew imitating Hank Williams. Jr. by singing "There's a tear in my beer 'cause I'm crying for you dear." As is fitting, I am very familiar with the work of one Mr. Kenny Rogers.
"Coward of the County" was a song I had a very hard time figuring out as a little kid riding in the car. I had a lot of questions that I never asked anyone.
How does everyone in the county know Tommy? How big is the county? Why was his dad in prison? What exactly did the Gatling boys do to Becky? Did Tommy kill the Gatling boys? Did he go to jail?
Now that those questions are out of my system, let me get to my expert opinion on the sad level. First of all, any song that contains the line "he was only ten years old when his daddy died in prison" is obviously sad. Then you have the added drama of Tommy eventually having to discard his father's advice that "you don't have to fight to be a man." Now if Tommy's father hadn't ever given him this advice, then he wouldn't have a coward's reputation and Becky would have been safe! This (seemingly sound) advice actually has a very negative effect on his life, as he doesn't correctly interpret his father's words.
Promise me son, not to do the things I done
Walk away from trouble if you can*
They won't think you're weak
If you turn the other cheek
I hope you're old enough to understand
You don't have to fight to be a man
His dad already knows that sometimes you have to fight when you're a man! If only Tommy had been old enough to really understand then he wouldn't have to view his Dad's words as naive. SAD!
HAPPY: Kenny Rogers- Through the Years
Luckily, Kenny does have songs that remind you more of his orange juice commercials (with his original wife and face) than sad miscommunications. This is one! I don't have a specific memory of this growing up, but my Dad and I did dance to it at my wedding. If it's not being played at a wedding, I see it more as a song for a woman to be listening to while she cleans her coffee table on a cool summer evening.
If you've heard this song, you know it's happy (in a weepy way). Kenny's learned what life's about by loving you, through the years. HAPPY!
(NOTE: An infinitely more interesting video that would not post can be found here. Kenny is speaking at a podium in Giants stadium in 1986 and is surrounded by people dressed in native costumes from around the world.)
SAD: The Smiths- There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Disclaimer- Sometimes this song does fall on the happy side with me, just because I do like to belt out "and if a ten ton truck kills the both of us."
Anyway, a song about someone who is homeless and having strange fears grip them in the darkened underpass can't be all that happy. If you really want my stab at an in-depth analysis, I'll say that this is a song about a guy that can't confess his love to the object of his affection despite an obvious chance. He would find some comfort in sharing the intimacy of death with this person rather than risk being rejected.
Wow, where did that come from?
HAPPY: Jermaine Stewart- We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off
A song like this could never be anything but happy.
As far as I can remember, I didn't hear this song until maybe 2005 on my way to work one morning. I was flabbergasted that such an amazingly ridiculous song existed. Then I saw the video and fell even deeper in love.
It's a world where you can't take your clothes off, but you can spend all night drinking cherry wine! I also find it hilarious how the song is an anthem for taking it slow and getting to know each other, yet the model is the video is subjected to every "sexy" 1980's video cliche with Jermaine wagging his finger at her. At least she (randomly) gets to wear a graduation mortarboard while she puts on her lipstick!
Wow, typing "innocence" sure makes it seem like a jumble of nonsense letters.
Ahem, anyway...I love this song, but it still totally reminds me of looking at those weird hairstyle books at the hair salon while my mom got a perm. I'm positive that they also played Wilson Phillips and plenty of other things, but I can't remember them as well.
On a deeper level, this song seems to me to be about the end of innocence propelling you towards the end of your life more quickly than you may want.
HAPPY: Eagles- Peaceful, Easy Feeling
I wanted to give Don Henley a chance to land on the happy side as well.
To me, this song is about accepting what happens and moving on with your life, even if it's not what you wanted. So this song becomes happy.
This is another song that used to wake me up for middle school at a very dark time of the morning. Of course, this is a great song, but no one wants to be awakened by music that could potentially make them cry! Heady stuff for a sixth grader!
HAPPY: Madonna- Borderline
I know that the lyrics to this song are not especially positive, but it's always provided happy ambient noise for me at outlet malls, etc.
Can we talk about this video? The plot is so convoluted! Despite her boyfriend's better instincts, Madonna is lured away from her faux break dancing by a slick gentleman (hasn't she ever seen Fame?!). She cheats on her boyfriend during a photoshoot, but still goes back to the billiards parlor to try and cuddle up to him. Then she spray paints the photographer's car as her sign of rebellion and rejoins her boyfriend for billiards. If we want to really analyze this, I think she's actually mad at herself for being charmed by his wealth! And she's pushing her own love over the borderline, if you ask me!
I remember seeing this video on VH1 when I was little and finding it scary. (I was watching it on VH1 because we weren't allowed to watch MTV. Sometimes my sister and I would sneak the channel to MTV while my mom was doing something else and EVERY single time they would be playing Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love." That video is so lame that we just gave up trying to watch MTV at all.)
Anyway, I'm assuming that the same reason that I found this unsettling when I was a little kid is the same reason that I find it sad today. Time is passing so quickly in the song. Lives seem so much less important due to the presentation. That sounds pretty SAD to me!
HAPPY: R.E.M.- It's the End of the World
My major memory of this song is when No Doubt performed it on New Year's Eve 1999/2000, on one of the other occasions the world was supposed to be ending. I found it really annoying because Gwen Stefani just gave up at the end (even though she had cue cards).
This song is speeding through life at the same speed as "We Didn't Start the Fire," but has a distinctly optimistic feeling and therefore must be HAPPY.
Maybe you've never really listened to the lyrics to this song, but it is super depressing and weird. I don't have a specific memory of hearing this song, though I undoubtedly did in Rose's while I picked out my orange New Kids on the Block lunchbox. Anyway, if you haven't paid close attention to the parts of the song that don't include the words "make love" (which confused me so much as a kid due to their various tricky uses in songs, i.e. Shelby Lynne's "What About the Love We Made), then you've probably been assuming this is a happy song.
Alas, the narrator is a woman who sleeps with various hitchhiking drifters because she can't have a baby with her husband. In the song, she describes picking up a hitchhiker and taking him to a hotel, which is a place she "knew well" (thus confirming that we are talking about drifters and not just a drifter) and gets pregnant. She also leaves the random hitchhiker a note reading:
"I am the flower, you are the seed
We walked in the garden, we planted a tree
Don't try to find me, please don't you dare
Just live in my memory, you'll always be there"
Gross. Anyway, some time in the future she accidentally comes across the kid's real father at an...oven repair store (?) and he's really upset and acts as though they were married once or something. Thus, this song is SAD.
HAPPY: Ace of Base- All That She Wants
This week's happy song is also seemingly about having a baby. I always wondered as a kid (most notably in the grocery store looking at R.L. Stine books at a stop in the way to a weekend vacation in Nags Head, NC) why the subject of this song needed "another baby." That wording makes me think that she already has one baby. Isn't that baby good enough for her? Yet in this video, there is no baby, just someone living their "lonely life." This song must suffer from some kind of translation issue. "Baby" can certainly refer to a significant other rather than a child, but that doesn't make much sense either.
Oh well, no Ace of Base song could be that sad. That means this song must be HAPPY.
(My apologies for these videos attaching themselves to various strange spots.)
I have always loved Bread! Bread was one of the cassettes we used to listen to on long car trips and I used to want to rewind "Diary" over and over again. Ultimately, this song is a lot sadder since it paints a very convincing picture of the world ending. Also, this may have been the tape that was playing when my puppy threw up on my face on one of those car trips. Other than that, this makes me think of traveling in the dark.
(Apparently, everyone loves to cover this song on youtube, but all the videos with the original recording have been hit with copyright problems. The above video is from a more recent concert, but you can find the real deal here in this (un-embedding) video.)
As most people are, I'm strongly affected by music. My husband and I are always joking around about why a particular song makes us feel a particular way or the context in which we usually heard it and generally these are a bit unexpected. I've decided to commemorate some of my favorite happy/sad songs here. I hope you enjoy!
SAD: Bonnie Raitt- "I Can't Make You Love Me"
Maybe I shouldn't start with what I feel is the saddest song ever, but here we go. Other than the obvious reasons, I feel this song is especially melancholy because it always used to wake me up on my alarm clock radio at 6 am when it was still dark outside (in middle school). Don't get me wrong, I love this song, but there is definitely something about it that makes it seem like it should be playing at an empty small town diner that is about to close forever as the sun goes down.
HAPPY:Jefferson Starship- "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
Since I started off the sad section with my saddest song of all, I had to combine it with my happiest! Get excited! This song was love at first listen to my young ears. After watching "Mannequin 2: On the Move" every day all summer long in elementary school, this song was a part of my daily life. "Whooo, Kristy Swanson got away from the evil Count Spritzel with that guy from Howard's Head!" This is one of the only songs that I even sing along with the guitar solo...unfortunately for anyone nearby.
"BERMUDA!" (If any fellow "Mannequin 2" lovers are out there like my husband's Uncle Kevin, then you know why I just had to say it.)
