I love to read... no, I mean, I really, really love to read, especially during the scorching hot Texas summers, when stepping outside is enough to melt one's flesh right from the muscle and bone. My favorites are memoirs, biographies, and autobiographies, and it's even better when they incorporate music into the tales. A few years ago, I picked up a book called Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time by Rob Sheffield. If his name sounds familiar, it's probably because he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine, and I've also seen him on some of the VH-1 count down specials as one of the individuals who gave commentary. So, anyway, Rob starts each chapter with a mock cassette cover, and that is where I am drawing inspiration for this week's songs...
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I know that I have mentioned the compilation CD, Just Say Yesterday, on this blog when I talked about B-Movie's song, "Nowhere Girl", but that was before I really began including scans of the materials to which I was referring; so I will include a scan of it for you today because it was also where I first heard "Pop Muzik" by M - although, I owned the cassette of this compilation long before I ever converted to the CD:
Since I know precious little about the band, M, I am going to resort to The Virgin Encyclopedia of 80s Music to help me out with this one today:
I will also incorporate two more treats for you today! Since I probably won't ever get another opportunity to talk about "Kiss Me" by Tin Tin and since it is on the compilation CD, I will include that one. Also since I may never have another opportunity to mention Level 42 and since the band was referenced in the write-up, I am also including "Something About You" as well...
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Get Up
Get Down
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Radio, video
Boogie with a suitcase
You're living in a disco
Forget about the rat race
Let's do the milkshake
Selling like a hot cake
Try some, buy some
Fee, fi, foe, fum
Talk about
Pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Shoobie doobie do wop
I wanna dedicate it
Pop pop shoo wop
Everybody made it
Shoobie doobie do wop
Infiltrate it
Pop pop shoo wop
Activate it
New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Singing in the subway
Shuffle with a shoeshine
Mix me a molotov
I'm on the headline
Wanna be a gun slinger
Don't be a rock singer
Eenie, meenie, mynie, mo
Whichever way you wanna go
Talk about
Pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Shoobie doobie do wop
Right in between it
Pop pop shoo wop
Eenee meenie
Shoobie doobie do wop
Right in between it
Pop pop shoo wop
You know what I'm meaning
Hit it
Now you know what I say
Talk about
Pop muzik
Everybody talk about
Pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
All around the world
Wherever you are
Dance in the street
Anything you like
Do it in the car
In the middle of the night
La,la,la,la
Dance in the supermart
Dig it in the fast lane
Listen to the countdown
They're playing our song again
I can't get jumping jack
I wanna hold get back
Moonlight muzak
Knick knack paddy whack
Talk about
Pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Shoobie doobie do wop
It's all around you
Pop pop shoo wop
Gonna surround you
Shoobie doobie do wop
It's all around
Pop pop shoo wop
Hit it
New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Now Listen
Talk about
Pop muzik
Pop, pop, pop muzik
Talk about
Pop muzik
Do you read me?
Loud and clear
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