Good: Material Issue - Valerie Loves Me

Valerie Loves Me @ Yahoo! Video

Before reviewing this song can i just say how much i fucking HATE UMG(Universal Music Group)!
I am promoting a tune that they own here but they make me go through hoops trying to find a video of this tune i can embed! Not only that they seemed to be a contributing cause to the suicide of the lead singer of this song. See Wikipedia for more info

The fucking cunts are pestering YouTube users for uploading videos with UMG songs in them..... but they seem to be forgetting that these people are the FANS of the tunes and artists! These are the same people who are PROMOTING their songs which in turn should eventually result in increased radio play ($$$ for UMG) increased CD sales ($$$ for UMG) and other band related things ($$$ for UMG)

Why can't i watch a music video here in Argentina? i could watch it if i was in the UK or the US but not here..... WHY? it makes no fucking sense!

Anyway enough ranting i just hope that UMG fails to survive the economic crisis and a company with someone who isn't an idiot old geezer at the helm gets the rights to their artists songs!

ok about the song

What a song!

I'd never heard it before today and i'm blown away!
its GREAT! it has a catchy riff and great lyrics! then BANG! its like the Pixies have taken over the song... this should have been a hit in 91 when it was released....
apparently it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart. Whatever the fuck they are! someone at UMG must not be doing their job correctly when a song this good didn't make it worldwide..... who knows maybe if they had done their job the band would be around now and Jim Ellison the singer wouldn't have committed suicide.....






Lyrics:
Valerie's dancing, in the room above my bed you know
For all of the world below to see
Valerie's leaving, in a car outside my house you know
Its such a shame she's not with me and all the pretty things
And all the love my heart would bring
I would give my whole life to her

Valerie loves me

Valerie's riding, in a car around my neighborhood
She's thinking of all the men she'll meet
I could only hope for a stolen moment of her thoughts
Between the walk to the club and all the drinks she'll have
In a crowded room where everybody leaves too soon
I only hope that she remembers me

Valerie loves me

Valerie loves me

Valerie's lonely, in an apartment down the street you know
And her hair has turned so grey
But she's so happy, for the memories she has you know
She can believe in the day when love was on a string
And she could have that anything she ever wanted
But she cant have me

Valerie loves me

Good: Trio - Da Da Da

Sticking with the classic 80's tunes you may have missed out on i bring you.....
Trio with Da Da Da!


I'm sure it was written on a Casio keyboard like the one above.... it just has that beat!
Some may say that this song is crap, it has nothing amazing about it..... well you are wrong! This is a brilliantly simple tune that will stick in your head for weeks and weeks!
uh huh!





p.s. re embedded as the original people were C*nts and removed embedding from the video!

Lyrics:
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What you will and what you won't
What you do and what you don't
What you can and what you can't
This is what you need to know:
Loved you though it didn't show

Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, da da da

da da da
da da da
da da da

Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me

(whispered)
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht.

I know why you ran away, aha
Understand you couldn't stay, aha
Wonder where you are today, aha
After all was said and done
It was right for you to run!

Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, aha
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, da da da

da da da
da da da
da da da

Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me

da da da (repeat to fade

Yup thats right! i posted the lyrics :)

Good XTC - Sgt. Rock is going to help me

This tune rocks! I can't believe it only made it to number 13! It could have been released last year by the Kaiser Chiefs and hit number 1!

I think it is a forgotten classic. This blog is becoming more and more of a Lost hits of the 80's blog :)





p.s. re embedded

Lyrics:

"Sgt. Rock (Is Going To Help Me)"

I'm enlisting, overseas aid
need assisting, help with a maid
get the expert, on mademoiselles
he could diffuse, any bombshell

If I could only be tough like him
then I could win
my own, small, battle of the sexes

Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
Sgt. Rock is going to help me
make the girl mine
keep her stood in line
make the girl mine, wave the victory sign

I'm invading, territories
Girls are foreign, and strange to me
get the expert, at kissing and stuff
he stays easy, when things get rough

Sometimes relationships don't go as planned
some girls, can make themselves so cold
a no-mans land.

Good The Lords of the New Church - Dance With Me

So its been a long time since i've updated but i have a backlog of good and shit music to blog about!

First up is this 80's classic!
Again it has a classic BASS LINE!!!! all songs need a bass line hook and this sound doesn't disappoint! It was covered in 2006 by Nouvelle Vague in a bossanova style but they failed to make it as good as the original!

The video is a typical 80's fare with an androgynous looking singer wearing pink lipstick! The effects are shit and they like to use FIRE!!!!
but ignore the video its the song thats good.

What do you think about it?




Lyrics:

Let's dance little stranger
Show me secret sins
Love can be like bondage
Seduce me once again

Burning like an angel
Who has heaven in reprieve Burning like the voodoo man
With devils on his sleeve

Won't you dance with me
In my world of fantasy?
Won't you dance with me?
Ritual fertility.

Like an aparition
You don't seem real at all
Like a premonition
Of curses on my soul

The way I want to love you
Well it could be against the law
I've seen you in a thousand minds
You've made the angels fall

Won't you dance with me
In my world of fantasy?
Won't you dance with me?
Ritual fertility.

Oh come on little stranger
There's only one last dance
Soon the music's over
Let's give it one more chance.

Won't you dance with me
In my world of fantasy?
Won't you dance with me?
Ritual fertility.

Take a chance with me
In my world of fantasy.
Won't you dance with me?
Ritual fertility.