Alright fellas,
I’m having the hardest time finding the artist and title of this obscure 80’s tune, which I heard on an AM alternative radio station many years ago. I need this song for a project I am working on. I have deciphered some of the lyrics, and have an mp3 sample available from an aircheck I found. If anyone here knows who this is (or even HAS the song), please let me know! Anyone listening to alternative/college radio around '88 or '89 may have heard this one. Nina Hagen is already ruled out from what I could find, as is Danielle Dax and Lene Lovich.
Here’s a 1-minute sample from the aircheck:
http://members.cox.net/jim.ballard/unknown_88-89.mp3
If you want to hear the whole song, it’s the first track on the aircheck “41 minutes of Tim Stone afternoon show, April 15, 1989” found here:
http://daveandrews.tripod.com/kukq.html
…and here’s what I could make out of the lyrics (they’re bizarre):
Who gives a ??? about a little happiness
You’ve got your drug wars and of course you’re part of me
You got your money, goodbye
Somebody ought to spank you
Now your stinking affairs leave a certain ???
…and your ???, your plans and your brotherhoods
Who can forget about your local ??? ???
You got your mother, your daughter
??? ??? makes you oppose
Off a ball of confusion, seems like nobody knows
(chourus, hard to make out)
She’s going to break it, like God made the flu (not sure there!)
She’s such a wonderful thing she’s got voodoo
I confess that I’m an optimist
that’s why when I choose nothing has to miss
I love everything, anything, all this mess
in a world where everything takes the test
You can bleed my pockets if you want to (USE!)
You can scrape (?) my pockets if you want to (HATE!)
You can choose a path if you want to (RIGHT!)
You can use your head if you want to (HOOH!) (?)
Take me to your leader
Let’s not mess around
Make yourself a pizza (?)
We’re from out of town
I chew my lips to pieces over this
every night they sit like zombies watch the news
A ??? ??? ??? ??? has gone all wrong
Now her needle ??? ??? ??? so you know she’s got the flu
A major affair seems to be forgiven
But making her kill is just not her living
Money and babes are a pride of living broom
Now you want to know who pulled and pulled and pulled
(chourus, hard to make out)
She’s going to break it, like God made the flu (not sure there!)
She’s such a wonderful thing she’s got voodoo
I confess that I’m an optimist
that’s why when I choose nothing has to miss
I love everything, anything, all this mess
in a world where everything takes the test
You can bleed my pockets if you want to (USE!)
You can scrape (?) my pockets if you want to (HATE!)
You can choose a path if you want to (RIGHT!)
You can use your head if you want to (HOOH!) (?)
(repeat)
Take me to your leader
Let’s not mess around
Make yourself a pizza (?)
We’re from out of town
Any help would be great.
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