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Name This Song (please)

grant

13:23 / 17.09.01

It's an 80s out-of-the-way/college radio hit.
A friend put it on a tape which had a few Yardbirds songs and a Jam album, and it fits perfectly in between.

"Some assembly required, that's what I said to her...."
seems to be one of the main components of the verse.

The chorus, catchy as hell, is:
"Oh, we're gonna glow in the
dark...
tonight...
We're gonna glow in the
dark tonight!"

I have no idea who did it.

rizla mission

11:14 / 18.09.01

Nor do I sadly, but it sounds good.

From the lyrics, it sounds kinda Guided By Voices-ey, but I don't suppose it is them.

Ronald Thomas Clontle

12:11 / 18.09.01

I have no idea what it is, but I will echo that while it does seem very GBV, it's almost definitely not (there's so many GBV songs I can't be certain--- but I do know everyone that can even loosely be called a 'hit'). And besides, while GBV did exist in the 80s, they were completely unknown to people outside of Dayton (and even those in Dayton) til around 94.

grant

14:14 / 18.09.01

Richard Barone - Lily White Hands? That guy.

Weird.

AilleCat

10:36 / 24.09.01

I thought Frank Sinatra (and Baseball) was the pride of Hoboken, NJ?

I used to work at Stevens Institute, so I know *all* about Hoboken *laugh*.

-Trish

Seth

14:30 / 24.09.01

quote:Originally posted by Jack Fear:
That's "Glow In The Dark," by the Bongos, the pride of Hoboken, NJ.

Lead singer Richard Barone's website here.

You must have an encyclopedia for a head. Just got over reading your career history of Stewart Copeland. I bow to your (insane) knowledge.

Jack Fear

14:40 / 24.09.01

It's a curse. Ask me sometime about the musical link that leads from Nick Drake to Spearhead...

gravityboy

15:38 / 24.09.01

quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:

Hell, what about Sonic Youth?

Sonic Youth is from NYC . . . but Yo La Tengo gets my vote as the pride of Hoboken.

AilleCat

11:14 / 25.09.01

hehe, they might be from Hoboken, but at a time where Hoboken wasn;t cool to be from

its only within the last 5 or 6 years that hoboken has become "gentrified"

on the subject of useless music trivia, I'm usually pretty good for the 70's prog-rock variety, though I'm starting to get that kind of knowledge about more recent music lately.

-Trish

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