This tune popped into my head today, circa mid- to late-eighties:
Out on the tar plains...the glides are moving. All looking for a new place to drive...
500 bonus points to the 80s geek who gets this one.
Today my coworker Tony and I were cleaning out a storeroom of old computer stuff, and hauling it down to the communal office building dumpster. I stayed in the freight elevator while Tony waited at the dumpster. As the elevator rose to the next level, I couldn't resist belting out:
"COME ON GIRLS! DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE? CUZ I GOT SOMETHIN' TO SAY ABOUT IT, AND IT GOES SOMETHIN' LIKE THIS..."
Tony asked what I was singing. I had to explain that every time I get in a freight elevator, I feel compelled to sing out lyrics from Madonna's "Express Yourself", because freight elevators remind me of the scene in that video of her in the freight elevator.
Posted by jimbo at March 26, 2003 08:59 PMjimbo. sadly, i can imagine youdoing that
Posted by: donald on March 28, 2003 02:57 PMIf they didn't know about you at work before, they certainly do now.
Posted by: Bubba on March 27, 2003 12:23 PMSadly, not one of the the Duran Duran songs that has found a home in my iPod.
On the Madonna front, I know exactly what you mean about compulsively having to sing that song. Although with me it's not freight elevators, it's when I have somebody chained up in my bedroom.
Posted by: Drew on March 27, 2003 11:32 AMugh! I was too slow -- and I knew just how to redeem those 500 Jimbo points...
Posted by: Andrew on March 27, 2003 10:33 AMI can never say "Duran Duran" without hearing Barbarella's voice in my ear.
Posted by: Rob on March 27, 2003 10:31 AMI think thats one of the coolest of the Old school Duran Duran songs.
The Original Video is cool, crazy euro Lesbian action, with one leather clad chic whipping the clothing off another topless chic as the Chauffeur watched.
Another version of the video was made in 1984 during there ARENA tour but this version was all male and highly homoerotic.
Funny theme European 80s Bands huh?
I like the flute segments in the song (learned to play it on the flute)
Makes a nice strip tease song.
Pritinama
Posted by: DAX on March 27, 2003 07:33 AMFitz: 500 points for gettin it right, +500 more for correcting me.
>; )
Oh, and that's "a new place to drive..."
Posted by: Fitz on March 26, 2003 10:01 PMI had to think about it for a minute, but I got it too. Now I will be whistling it for the next several days. Thanks a bunch. "Si-i-i-i-i-i-ing, Blue Silver-r-r-r-r-r-r!"
Posted by: Casey on March 26, 2003 09:36 PMDuran Duran - The Chauffeur. Written in 1980. Released in 1982 on the Rio album . Music by andy and nick, Lyrics by Simon and featuring a great sequenced line on the Jupiter 8.
Posted by: Fitz on March 26, 2003 09:11 PM