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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Feel good jam. Music was a lot happier back in those days.

Maybe if we went back to happy music people would be happier?

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What a great jam.

And it wasn't until I saw that retrospective video a week or so ago that I realized that there wasn't a single instrument, and it was all Bobby McFerrin doing the entire thing acapella. It's easy to hear that when it's pointed out to you, but I guess like the guy who made the analysis video it just never occurred to me before. It's the only acapella song in history that ever topped the Billboard charts.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I was a real little kid when Girls Just Wanna Have Fun came out. Didn't matter that I was a boy, I loved when that song was on the radio. It didn't make me want to play with Barbie dolls or put on a skirt. It was just a fun song.

My favorite Lauper song was always "Good Enough". Even though I love the movie The Goonies, I refuse to call it by the full title. I'm sure from a marketing standpoint that it was a great idea to intertwine the song so deeply with the movie and the music video in the days where MTV was new and everything was experimental, but I think in the long term that's really hurt the longevity of the song and made most people not take it very seriously going on 40 years later.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My favorite Cyndi Lauper song

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Think I was in my later years of high school when "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" came out. It is a good song and Cyndi was part of the whole Rock and Wrestling jam. And I do admit that I was in to that and my friends. *L*

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"Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a great, fun little song.

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Think I was in my later years of high school when "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" came out. It is a good song and Cyndi was part of the whole Rock and Wrestling jam. And I do admit that I was in to that and my friends. *L*

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I bet you were right around my babysitter's and her friend's ages at the time. Had a lot of fun back in those days. I remember wrestling with one of her boyfriends in our backyard one day. Still remember his name because it was my name and I thought that was awesome. Cool dude. Never saw him again after one of us said something to our mom about him and my mom chewed the babysitter's butt out for having a boyfriend over while she was babysitting.

I remember not even realizing why any of that happened. Funny all the things you don't understand when you're that age. Learned pretty early on not to tell my mom nothin' about nothin' though.

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"Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a great, fun little song.

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Yup! I don't care what the haters say, I'll always love that song.

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Think I was in my later years of high school when "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" came out. It is a good song and Cyndi was part of the whole Rock and Wrestling jam. And I do admit that I was in to that and my friends. *L*

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I bet you were right around my babysitter's and her friend's ages at the time. Had a lot of fun back in those days. I remember wrestling with one of her boyfriends in our backyard one day. Still remember his name because it was my name and I thought that was awesome. Cool dude. Never saw him again after one of us said something to our mom about him and my mom chewed the babysitter's butt out for having a boyfriend over while she was babysitting.

I remember not even realizing why any of that happened. Funny all the things you don't understand when you're that age. Learned pretty early on not to tell my mom nothin' about nothin' though.

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"Don't Worry, Be Happy" is a great, fun little song.

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Yup! I don't care what the haters say, I'll always love that song.



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Cyndi was part of the whole Rock and Wrestling jam. And I do admit that I was in to that and my friends. *L*

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Ok, you lost me on that one. Rock 'n wrestling???

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Originally posted by Brenda:
That's a nice song SIX but sad.

I don't know "Band of Horses", may have to look up more of their stuff on You Tube.

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Nice to see a little bit of Vancouver and the Skytrain.

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That's a nice song SIX but sad.

I don't know "Band of Horses", may have to look up more of their stuff on You Tube.

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Yeah. I get the feeling that most of their stuff is sad or at least pretty emotional. It looks like their most famous song by far is called "The Funeral". That one hasn't grabbed me like "No One's Going to Love You" or "Warning Signs" though.

Doing a little more research, that isn't their official video for "No One's Going To Love You." It looks like that was a fan made video by two kids that were in high school at the time. Really impressive, IMO. The official video is just them singing it at various live events, which to me is a lot more boring to watch.

It also turns out I've heard it once before. It was in an early-ish episode of the TV show Chuck, which I started watching somewhere around 2010... So that one has probably floated around in the back of my head for 12 years now.

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Oh. That's cool. Guess the kids who made that video were Canadian.

It's real cool that Band of Horses just let them keep the video up there and didn't copyright claim it.


I posted the lyric version of "Warning Signs" above. Here's the official video. They must have finally gotten money to budget for a real one. It doesn't look like it would have been too expensive to make, but boy did they do a good job on it.

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