Here comes the 4th installment from
this delightfully freakish list constructed in the very hazy year of 2009.
This first one was a favorite of someone close to me at the time - strangely, we were watching Labyrinth the day that Michael Jackson passed. We were both pretty messed up, which didn't make the Labyrinth experience any more interesting, but who could forget this ridiculous song?
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David Bowie - "Magic Dance"
I trust
no one that can't properly respond to "you remind me of the babe".
When I heard this for what I thought was the first time, it dawned on me that I definitely remembered it from my childhood. I would have been about 6 at the time (I also somehow remembered the video). I've got a 12" maxi single with several remixes of this. It's just a great song.
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Sparks - "When I Kiss You (I Hear Charlie Parker Playing)"
As I mentioned earlier, this was the year I discovered the charms of ye-ye. I can't find a clip of Hedika's "Hey Pony", so here's something different (though equally delightful).
Hedika - "Danse le Twist Avec Moi"
As I also previously mentioned, I was very into Squeeze during this time, so here's some of their earlier work for your sheer amusement.
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Squeeze - "Cool for Cats"
I'm still completely in love with these lyrics.
I loved this next group when I was much younger, but was somehow reunited with the addictive nature of this next song, much later.
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Men At Work - "Who Can It Be Now"
This next song has been posted at least three times in this journal already, but will always remind me of an ill-fated drive I took one night.
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Roxy Music - "Mother of Pearl"
I really loved this album two years prior to this list being written, and I'm not sure what sparked my obsession with this particular track, but here it is.
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Pat Benatar - "My Clone Sleeps Alone"
This is the first song I'd ever heard by Kate Bush, and I was enchanted by everything about it. Her voice, the lyrics, the chilling lilt in her vocal delivery... god. So many memories are flooding back just hearing this again.
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Kate Bush - "Babooshka"
I love this next song. I always have. I'd forgotten about it for years, and heard it again on last.fm radio. I couldn't stop playing it for the longest time. Though I have no significant memories of 2009 thanks to this song, all memories of 2002 are still intact. It feels good to hear this.
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Icehouse - "Electric Blue"
Ending this entry with yet another bizarre, funny song, this time courtesy of some of the finest.
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Monty Python - "The Lumberjack Song"