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Tonight I was sitting in the pharmacy drive-through line, waiting for the tech to enter my insurance information into the computer AGAIN, because even though I just filled this same scrip two months ago, somehow the computer says I have no insurance. Again.

Hooray!

(Fortunately, I have insurance AND my insurance covers this drug, which is great because before the insurance, it’s $250. Which seems like a lot for something that isn’t actually erasing my wrinkles entirely but only making them a little less noticeable.)

(Differin, you all. I love it. But I love it more when it’s only $25. Insurance FTW!)

ANYway …

While I’m waiting for the man to v e r y s l o w l y enter my insurance information in the computer, the Go Go’s come on the radio, and suddenly I’m 12 again, bobbing my head to “We’ve got the beat.” But driving, and in need of something to take care of my crow’s feet. You know what I mean, though.

And I started to think about music that makes me feel young again. For example …

1. “Happy Hour Again” (The Housemartins)

2. “Hymn to Her” (Pretenders)

3. “I Love You Suzanne” (Lou Reed)

4. “Roam” (B52s)

5. “Personal Jesus” (Depeche Mode)

I could keep going (how about some Erasure, you all?) but it’s your turn. What songs make you feel young?

(Only sort of distantly related: I heard Frank Sinatra singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” tonight on satellite radio. Ho ho ho! Or something.)

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I can’t get past the Go-Go’s. One of my all-time favorite bands. I must put them on my ipod now!

Love Shack!

Friday, I’m In Love by The Cure.

Takes me back to the summer I was 20, working at a church camp. Just hearing the opening chords can do it.

Oh, and definitely Erasure - but that takes me back to band trips in high school.

“How can I explain where there are few words I can chooooooose…”

Erasure, and Junior High dances, oh yeah!

plus:
Come On Eileen, Dexy’s Midnight Runners

and (who can argue with this one? I was 3 when my brother got the album…my entire family danced around to this record. And it really was a record.)

Dancing Queen, ABBA

I loved the Housemartins! I would also say the rickrolled song, Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley, except it’s mostly ruined now. Here are my other 80’s faves.
Yaz - Don’t Go
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
The Psycholdelic Furs - Heaven
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Madness - Our House
General Public - Tenderness
The English Beat - Tears of a Clown
OMD - So In Love
New Order - Shell Shock and
Spandau Ballet - True (I was so going to marry Tony.)

Wow, I must have been very melodramatic, totally into break up music and anything from England! Thanks for taking me back. For the first time today, I have a smile on my face.

Seriously? You were 12 when We Got the Beat came out? Geez, I’m old.

i’m blaming you when my itunes bill goes into triple digits!

love all the ones you mentioned, plus:
tenderness by general public
anything by the english beat
do you want to hold me by bow wow wow
rock lobster by the B52’s
give it up by hothouse flowers

i could go on and on, but right now i think i need to visit the itunes store and spend my children’s college fund on retro music…

OMG - this post just made me go spend $25 on iTunes! Which may make me feel younger than Differin (but I’m going to check that out too).

Housemartins, Yaz, Erasure, General Public, Violent Femmes, The Cure, R.E.M., OMD! Remember when there was only 1 MTv channel and they actually played music videos all day? That Housemartins Happy Hour video? Pure 80s awesomeness.

Oh my goodness, there are so many! Definitely, Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now.” Everytime I hear that song, I am in middle school again, slow skating with my crush! Talk about taking you back!

Anything by the Psychedelic Furs (especially if it was featured in John Hughes movie) and the song “Forever Young” by Alphaville.

(I love this topic!!)

OMG - Forever Young!! Back to iTunes!

“Wishing Well” (Terence Trent D’Arby)
“Desire” (U2)
“Jungle Love” (The Time)
“Lean On Me” (Club Nouveau)

And, of course:
“Oh, Sheila” (Ready For The World)

I get an actual tingle of happy when I hear these songs. Takes 20 years off my life, crow’s feet be damned.

All the above (and not the song with those lyrics that is on the radio right now), and anything by The Outfield; “Papa Don’t Preach” or “Like a Virgin” by Madonna; “Control” by Janet Jackson; “Summer of 69″ by Bryan Adams; “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” & “Time After Time” by Cyndi Lauper, any thing by Men at Work… that’s enough. I’ll stop now. = )

Anything by Duran Duran

“Escalator of Life” by I don’t know who
but it’s a fun song

Anything by Howard Jones

Anything by Adam Ant

Gosh…. All the subversive Brit bands of the late 70’s early 80’s…

“Mexican Radio” by Wall of Voodoo

“Ring of Fire” by Wall of Voodoo

oooooo there’s soooooooooo much more stuck here in my head!

These Are Days by 10,000 Maniacs!

Oh, and what makes me feel old? The fact that Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” is playing on our local Oldie’s station. Omg.

The Manhattan Transfer, Soul Food to Go
Swing out Sister, Twilight World
B-52s, Love Shack
REM, Stand

They all, coincidentally, take me back to 1988, the year my DH went through navigator training at Mather AFB in Sacramento. Our first year out of college. Good times.

Destination Unknown by Missing Persons!

867-5309…Rick Springfield, I think?

I hadn’t thought about the first song in years! Love the Housemartins; saw them open for Barenaked Ladies a few times.

As for Erasure…mmm, “Blue Savannah” is my favorite.

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