Hey party peoples. Back in the mid 80s I listened to Notre Dame Universities midnight radio program. You remember college radio back then when they played whatever was good for a laugh, or just sounded a lot cooler than hearing “We built this city” every 10 minutes on daytime radio. Yeah living amongst the corn and mint fields as a young teen, with no cable tv, there wasn’t much entertainment besides music.
In the song I’m thinking about, just guitar noise and the lyrics were this guy shrieking about being a kid going on vacation with mom and dad traveling by car, they made a stop at a gas station, he went in to use restroom or get candy and when he came back outside the car was gone! He was left behind!, left behind. Oh god left behind. I did a google search but apparently this band is too obscure. To whoever can come up with this thanks!
In the song I’m thinking about, just guitar noise and the lyrics were this guy shrieking about being a kid going on vacation with mom and dad traveling by car, they made a stop at a gas station, he went in to use restroom or get candy and when he came back outside the car was gone! He was left behind!, left behind. Oh god left behind. I did a google search but apparently this band is too obscure. To whoever can come up with this thanks!
From the description you’re giving, I’m going to guess that this is maybe a track by the Happy Flowers.
I haven’t heard all their records, but most of what I have is pretty similar in theme and sound to what you describe - squalls of noise and spastic drumming on top of occasionally hilarious lyrics sung from the perspective of pissed off / frightened children.
I think I was talking about my favorite moment by them in another thread: the song “Why Didn’t You Tell Me You Were Bringing Home A Baby” in which the singer screams “YOU SAID YOU WERE BRINGING HOME SOMETHING SOFT AND CUDDLY!!! I THOUGHT YOU MEANT A PUPPY!!! TAKE THE BABY BACK!!! GET ME A PUPPY!!! THIS IS THE WORST…DAY…OF…MY…LIIIIIIIFE!!!”
That was it! As soon as I read your description of the other song, that had to be them, and I have it cranked up now. Thanks![:)]
Enjoy with my compliments lol…“Jenny Tried To Kiss Me At Recess” is genius too. Sounds like the South Park kids trying to play New York “no wave” or something.
I have a lost song like that too from college that I heard in the late 80’s on WONY radio in Oneonta. It sounded like a more electronic version of REVCO’s Big Sexy Land song with blips and sequencers.
The chorus was “Hindsight in 3-D Weather” over and over. I taped it on cassette and don’t have it anymore. Never caught the name of the band from the DJ. It was an industrial classic. Bugs me.
[reply]That was it! As soon as I read your description of the other song, that had to be them, and I have it cranked up now. Thanks![:)]
Well done, Tomasz! Well done.[/reply]
I’m a little miffed that I’m only batting .500 now, though. I can’t figure out what La Machine’s mystery song is.
I’m having flashbacks to working at Tower and having to answer those nightmare customer inquiries along the lines of “can you tell me what that one song is that goes [insert random “deedily doo wah wah skriddily doo” noises here]”.
Yeah, sorry not much to go on Tomasz. It was the ultimate missed the DJ saying the group moment.
It’s a longshot but you might wanna try some of the Greater Than One catalog…“I Don’t Need God” was kind of a minor hit around that time, getting some plays on MTV and whatnot. That sounds sort of like their style of dada-istic sampling.