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Music Monday #3.8: Déjà Vu

Hey hey it's Music Monday! Today's theme is kinda cobbled together. Technically speaking these are all tracks off the Déjà Vu FST (that's the fic I will never write, not the kinda crappy film), but mostly it's just an excuse to inflect some really bad 80s music on you all. Hooray!

#36. Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime" (watch)

And you may ask yourself,
"What is that beautiful house?"
And you may ask yourself,
"Where does that highway go to?"
And you may ask yourself,
"Am I right? Am I wrong?"
And you may say to yourself,
"My god! What have I done?"

The first time I ever heard this song, Kermit was singing it on Muppets Tonight. It's kinda amazing, then, with that introduction that it got stuck in my head as much as it did. Now, these are the heady days pre-Napster, so I used to listen frantically to the radio on the off-chance they played it (oddly enough, they did). The Talking Heads have some A++ music and this song is, like, the midlife crisis theme song. The videoclip is also worth checking out, if only because it was apparently choreographed by Toni Basil. You know, Hey Micky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind Toni Basil. Yeah, I dunno either.

#37. Goo Goo Dolls, "Lazy Eye"

The world spins 'round the secret lives
Of everyone that needs to hide
A cheap parade of endless lies
Filters through this lazy eye
And I don't believe in signs
No, I don't believe your lies
Caught in the breakdown

FUN FAX: Apparently before the Goo Goo Dolls sung boring soft rock, they had like this heavy, grungy sound. Who woulda thunk it? Well, maybe anyone who knew that their original band name was the Sex Maggots. But anyway! This is apparently a 'rare' Dolls track that I managed to find on the Batman & Robin OST. I have no more heavy thoughts to share on this song, so y'all should just go listen to it.

#38. Kon Kan, "I Beg Your Pardon (I Never Promised You a Rose Garden)" (watch)

And when we're alone seems there's nothing to say
I bring up a topic and you push it away
You say that you do but I think it's just you don't care
Why do I feel you're using me?

So a while ago I did a music swap with a guy at work. He's a decade my senior, which meant that he had a lot of awesome super-fun 80s music in his collection, including this. This song, Jesus, how to describe it? It's like, someone got every song made in the 80s, rolled them up into a big ball and pushed them through a synthesiser. The result? This. It works a lot better than that description probably implies, but it has to be heard to be believed. Looking up the videoclip last night to collate this list made me feel desolately nostalgic for the days when you could get away with an you and your band dorking around on an almost empty soundstage. Oh 80s, why did you have to leave us?

#39. The White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army" (watch)

I'm gonna fight 'em all
A seven nation army couldn't hold me back
They're gonna rip it off
Taking their time right behind my back

Woah, a song written in the last ten years? Ho snap! The first couple of times I head this I couldn't stand it, but it kinda grew on me. I guess it's got such a, "This is a bad idea and I'm going to do it anyway and you can't stop me!" vibe to it that I just can't dislike it. I also swear I've seen a different videoclip for it – something involving a bunch of schoolkids playing at UN… but I might be getting it confused with something else.

#40. Echo & the Bunnymen, "Bring on the Dancing Horses" (watch)

Shiver and say the words
Of every lie you've heard
First I'm gonna make it
Then I'm gonna break it
'Till it falls apart
Hating all the faking
And shaking while I'm breaking
Your brittle heart

This is another track I got off Work Guy and slowly fell in love with. It's just so… fatalistic. I don't have much else to say to it other than whoever made the videoclip had apparently been reading wa-aa-ay too much Equus. Like, srsly. On the other hand: Cow!

So, there you go. Enjoy this week's piracy, me hearties!

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