2 posts tagged “blondie”

Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.

Sean says...

Dreaming by the group Blondie.  The song is both rallying cry for me about always pursuing your dream be it love or just life and nostalgia reminder. The drums are amazing!  My sisters and I used to lock ourselves in their room and listen to Blondie's Best of album over and over. My memories about us dancing and singing like crazy "tweens" together is what I think propels this song forward in my memory all these years.  This will be my entrance song at our wedding since it's pretty much my favorite song of all time. <smirk> Now if I remember it right, this was my song; Holly's was The Tide is High (although our "spotlight" dance at her wedding included One Way Or Another which Mikelle joined in on); and Mikelle's was Rapture because she liked the rap part (...and he shoots you dead and he eats your head). Enjoy!

When I met you in the restaurant
You could tell I was no debutante
You asked me what's my pleasure
A movie or a measure?
I'll have a cup of tea and tell you of my dreaming
Dreaming is free
I don't want to live on charity
Pleasure's real or is it fantasy?
Reel to reel is living rarity
People stop and stare at me We just walk on by - we just keep on dreaming
Feet feet, walking a two mile
Meet meet, meet me at the turnstile
I never met him, I'll never forget him

Dream dream, even for a little while
Dream dream, filling up an idle hour
Fade away, radiate

I sit by and watch the river flow
I sit by and watch the traffic go
Imagine something of your very own
Something you can have and hold

I'd build a road in gold just to have some dreaming
Dreaming is free
Dreaming
Dreaming is free
Dreaming
Dreaming is free 
 

Stefan says...

When my birthday rolled around last July, my beloved Sean surprised me with a wonderful gift: my very first ipod!  Yeah, I know I'm about five years behind the rest of the world!  I didn't have the opportunity to really use it before our trip to Vegas; now I'm hooked...loving this device!

For those of you who share my enthusiasm for music (and for my penchant for being a fan of many musical genres), what is on your ipod right now?  What are the top ten songs you have found yourself replaying over and over again during the past week/month?  Let's compare notes!

For me, I recently created a playlist of songs that are sampled from other songs, including the original, or remixes.  Here is what is on that playlist:

-"Genius of Love" (Tom Tom Club) & "Fantasy" (Mariah Carey)

-"Jamie's Crying" (Van Halen) & "Wild Thing" (Tone Loc)

-"Hanky Panky" (Tommy James & the Shondells) & "Hanky Panky" (Joan Jett)

-"Best of My Love" (The Emotions) & "Emotions" (Mariah Carey)

-"Highway to Hell" (AC/DC) & "Highway to Hell" (a funkified remix by Sepalot & Amos)

-"Disco Inferno" (The Trammps) & "Disco Inferno" (Tina Turner)

-"Do It Again" (Steely Dan) & "Mentirosa" (Mellow Man Ace)

-"Firecracker" (Mass Production) & "Me So Horny" (2 Live Crew)

-"Forget Me Nots" (Patrice Rushen) & "Men in Black" (Will Smith)

-"The Glamorous Life" (Sheila E.) & "Don'tcha Wish Your Girlfriend was Hot Like Me" (Pussycat Dolls)

-"Riders on the Storm" (The Doors) & "Rapture Riders" (a mashup with "Rapture" by Blondie)

-"Rock You Like a Hurricane" (The Scorpions) & "Rock You Like a Hurricane" (Scorpions w/ the Berlin Philharmonic)

-"Money-That's What I Want" (The Beatles) & "Money-That's What I Want" (Barrett Strong)

-"Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Brownsville Station) & "Smokin' in the Boys Room" (Motley Crue)

-"Stone Cold Crazy" (a remixed version with Queen and Nine Inch Nails)

-"Stuck in the Middle With You" (Steely Dan) & "All I Wanna Do" (Sheryl Crow)

-"Train Kept a Rollin'" (Aerosmith) & "Train Kept a Rollin'" (Goss, Eugene, & Rich)

-"Youngblood" (Bad Company) & "Youngblood" (The Other Side)