She's Gone - Hall & Oates

"She's Gone. Oh, I. Oh, I. I'd better learn how to face it."

Oh aye? Yes, she's left him in a typical white soul tear-jerker style that recalls other white soul tear jerkers:

The stockinged feet that softly tip-toe through the room where I lay half asleep. Got your lipstick marks still on my coffee cup... You know, the cup that says 'World's Greatest Golfer'; the one we let the builder drink from when we were having the conservatory done; the cup we soaked in Dettol for six hours after he'd finished. More of a mug than a cup really.

Somehow I don't get the feeling that Daryl and John are too bothered by 'her' leaving...

I have a hunch that they'll get over it by making a pot of Ethiopian Sidamo in their stainless steel cafetiere then dancing to Classix Nouveaux in a L.A. nightclub that smells like sweet and sour pork and is named after a Weimar Republic youth movement

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Head Over Heels - Go-Go's

The Fisher-Price piano solo, the crunchy new wave guitars, the big earrings, the post-Paris Princess Di 'dos', the bare-knuckle bitch fight with Bananarama.

Here's the proof, if ever proof were needed, that the fairer sex make the best records...

...he says in the most blatant display of condescending sexism since the breakfast show DJ on Plymouth Sound F.M. said "I wouldn't mind taking a chance on the blonde one" after playing 'Take a Chance on Me' by ABBA.

Eighties girl group the Go-Go's were tagged as 'New Wave Femme Rock' (Just now. By me) even though they used more hairspray than the Supremes and Marvelettes put together.

Sadly, the girls' excessive hairspray use contributed to the fire that burnt down the L.A. nightclub that smelt like sweet and sour pork and was named after a Weimar Republic youth movement.

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If it's ever been on K-Tel or Ronco, it's in. If it features hand claps, cow bells, syrupy orchestration, walls of sound, wrecking crews, sha-la-las, lyrics about hugging, squeezing and rocking all night long, toothy teen idols or candy-based metaphors for carnal acts, it's in.

I guess now it's time for me to give up. Eh?



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