Dear Russell asked in his Tuesday Question about stuff that you like mostly due to the context in which you first enjoyed it rather than to the quality of the song itself. I went through any number of things in my head. I suppose the musical “Annie” would be the best example (it was the first off-broadway show I ever went to!) I really, really, really didn’t want to put a video for any of the songs that are even now stuck in your head. (I apologize, that was not my intention.)
I went from my childhood to my adolescence (Belinda Carlisle!) to my young adulthood (Third Eye Blind!) to my first date with Maribou. Our first date took place at a roller rink. Yep, she came out to Colorado and I took her roller skating. While the skate songs that I had grown up with weren’t getting a whole lot of airplay, skate song theory had not changed a bit. (Think about it: How different is Blondie from The Spice Girls if you’re looking for a little roller disco?) While I had not taken into account how altitude affects folks who haven’t been roller skating since they were little kids, we did get enough ring time to hear this one:
Now, there’s a handful of dance moves that you can do to this one but here are the definite notes that you have to hit:
When he sings “One, Two, One, Two, Three! I’ve got a ticket so ride with me!”, you have to count with your fingers and thumb your own chest when he sings “me”. You have to do something vaguely big (perhaps rock a cabbage patch?) during the “roller coaster… OF LOVE” part but, and this is essential, when you get to “your love is like a roller coaster baby, baby”, you *HAVE* to speed up.
So… what (skate songs!) are you listening to?
Ha! I felt sure you were going to post this one.
By the time we got to the roller rink, I already knew you were smart enough, and witty enough, and sexy enough, and kind enough, for me. But after we’d been skating for about 2 minutes, I also knew you were goofy enough. 🙂
I wish I had had more of my faculties available that first time you visited so I could say something equally awesome but I was distracted by how you smelled really, really good.
Oh, you two!
This answer to my question is space awesome.
And my answer to your question is “Mickey,” by Toni Basil and, and “Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats.
Russell have you seen this Literal Lyrics video
http://youtu.be/zZaiB9jYCxI
Totally derailing:
So Anne, did you guys watch the game last night? It was pretty freaking amazing.
Yes! It was great we just like to lull them into a false sense of security in the first part of the game. I just hope they can keep it up and win the whole shebang. The whole city has gone Thunder crazy.
I bet! I would love to hang out in OKC over these next couple of weeks.
And if you guys are able to keep Miami’s Big Three ringless, I’m willing to forgive the whole Laker-thrashing thing.
I continue to be shocked and dismayed that “It would be cool to work with my friends” is considered the moral equivalent of torturing puppies.
Doing our best to earn your forgiveness 🙂 Next time your in OK look me up
Will do! Whenever I’m there, as you know, I’m visiting my sister. You guys could join us for drinks, which – when I’m visiting my sister – gives you a LOT of opportunities for scheduling such a thing.
Mike gets a nose-knows.
Anne, as I said to my friend, Miami looked like they forgot they had to play a second-half. Zero adjustments at halftime and listless in their offensive sets. Spoelstra in the house! If they thought Battier was going to drop another 13, they deserve to get swept.
Mike gets a nose-knows.
Not a clue, unless that’s a joke about about Kevin Durant-e.
It is what I call the thing where someone touches their nose and points at you if you know the answer or are otherwise correct. I have no idea the real name but surely you know the gesture, no? I believe it is frm charades.
It’s very simple. When Boston’s GM brought in Garnett and Ray Allen to complement Paul Pierce, it was considered a masterstroke, one of the best things to happen to basketball in years. When LBJ and Bosh decide on their own that they’d like to play with their buddy Dwyane, it’s a terrible precedent and the only hope for the NBA is that they fail.
Me, I think people should be free to work where they want to.
How about Malone and Payton taking less money to join LA in hopes of a last run at a ring being seen as noble and evidence of their dedication to winning while LeBron and Bosh taking less money to join Miami being seen as selling out to win? SRSLY?
People are jealous of Miami, plain and simple. It’s the, “Holy shit! Why didn’t/couldn’t we do that? Well, whatever, they’re clearly evil for having done so!” response. Silly.
Awesome. But I still prefer:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/e685c7e4ff/literal-video-total-eclipse-of-the-heart
Meatloaf’s I’d do anything for Love is hilarious as well
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTPko-aXvJM&w=560&h=315%5D
That will never stop being amazing.
As a distantly related anecdote, my very first date ever was in the eighth grade. I had asked out Vivian Probetts, and I took her to go see the only movie playing at our city’s lone movie theatre: Roller Boogie with Linda Blair. It is, to my knowledge, the only roller disco-action feature film ever produced.
I am pretty sure it was the very worst first date in the history of the universe. If ever we encounter an amoeba-like intelligent life form from a distant galaxy that breathes ammonia and has no concept of human emotions, you could tell them the details of my first date and they’d say, “Dude, I’m so sorry you went through that. That’s the worst.”
Also, I’ve been listening to a lot of Ben Folds and Stan Getz this week.
Russell needs a first date question.
I will add it to the amorphous list percolating in the back of my brain. Your wife has already been the inspiration for next week’s Question
Continuing my thoughts from the other thread, even though “Skateaway” is about skating, it doesn’t feel to me like a good skating song. “Tunnel of Love” does, and it even begins with the Skater’s Waltz. And “Romeo and Juliet”, for the skating equivalent of a slow dance. (I know that CDs and now MP3s have made the concept of a “side” doubly obsolete, but that’s one of the best sides on any album I’ve ever owned.)
I’m thinking about good slow “couples skate” songs and all that’s coming to mind right now are The Carpenters.
Maybe Roxette’s “It Must Have Been Love” but that’s more of a “skating by yourself and crying” song.
By the way, this song is totally awesome.
You should skate to it.
My goto ove is the shopping cart. If someone breaks that out before I get a chance to…IT! IS! ON!
Recently threw Big Boi’s Speakerbox in the car CD player. Summer commute is triple school-year commute… I forget how good and crazy that CD is.