Week Thirty: iPod Picks - UB40 - "Red Red Wine" - The Very Best of UB40

For Week Thirty, I'm turning my iPod loose (in the form of putting it on shuffle) and letting it do the picking... so the seven songs for this week were chosen by my trusty little iPod who is now holding close to 5000 of my favorite songs and who is slowly but surely dying battery-wise; however, I am too attached to do an upgrade just yet...

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Back before I had discovered the joys (and the evils) of Vodka, I was all about the Red Red Wine. It didn't help that it had its own theme song in a reggae-style cover performed by UB40.

My dorm-mate, Jenny, whom I mentioned in a previous post, and I would find some unsuspecting 21-year-old (or older) male (typically someone who had a crush on either her or me or both of us) and mislead him into believing that he would be able to partake in our box (oh, yeah, I said box) of Red Red Wine back in our dorm room.

Then, upon returning to said dorm room, we would remind the legal-aged lad that we were not allowed to have boys on our floor past 10 pm, and we would proceed to kick him out. Then the fun would begin!

Jenny and I would plow through our box of Red Red Wine until we passed out in pure bliss. That was our frequent routine until the evening we must have gotten our hands on the cheapest batch of Red Red Wine in all of Denton, TX. We spent the entire night and into the wee hours of the morning vomiting in our little dorm room sink. We could not chance going down the hall to the community bathroom a few doors away because we might have been kicked out of the entire university for under-age drinking on campus.

That was the end of my love-affair with Red Red Wine, but little did I know that Madame Vodka was waiting in the wings for me. I'll save some of those stories for later posts...

I am including the 2002 version of the video minus the special reggae section because it's an interesting little clip, but I'm also including another clip that has the special reggae section because it's what makes this song so super-fly!!! :-D

Red, red wine 
Goes to my head 
Makes me forget that I 
Still need her so 

Red, red wine 
It`s up to you 
All I can do I`ve done 
memories won`t go 
memories won`t go 

I just thought that with time 
Thoughts of you would leave my head 
I was wrong, now I find 
Just one thing makes me forget 

Red, red wine 
Stay close to me 
Don`t let me be in love
It`s tearin` apart 
My blue, blue heart 

I just thought that with time 
Thoughts of you would leave my head 
I was wrong now I find 
Just one thing makes me forget 

Red, red wine
Stay close to me
Don't let me be in love
It's tearin' apart
My blue, blue heart


---Red Red Wine Regge Section--- 


Red red wine you make me feel so fine 
You keep me rocking all of the time 

Red red wine you make me feel so grand 
I feel a million dollars when your just in my hand 

Red red wine you make me feel so sad 
Any time I see you go it makes me feel bad 

Red red wine you make me feel so fine 
Monkey pack him rizla pon the sweet dep line 

Red red wine you give me whole heap of zing 
Whole heap of zing mek me do me own thing 

Red red wine you know of love 
Your kind of loving like a blessing from above 

Red red wine I love you right from the start 
Right from the start with all of my heart 

Red red wine in a 80`s style 
Red red wine in a modern beat style, yeah 

(Chorus) 

Give me little time, help me clear up me mind 
Give me little time, help me clear up me mind 

Give me Red wine because it make me feel fine 
Make me feel fine all of the time 

Red red wine you make me feel so fine 
Monkey pack him rizla on the sweet dep line 

The line broke, the monkey get choke 
Burn bad ganja pon him little rowing boat 

Red red wine I`m gonna hold on to you 
Hold on to you cause I know you love true 

Red red wine I`m gonna love you till I die 
Love you till I die and that`s no lie 

Red red wine can`t get you out of mind 
Where ever you maybe I`ll surely find 
I`ll surely find make no fuss jus` stick with us.