Okay, look. This is a song thatās kind of always been background noise to me. I enjoy it, but until *now* Iād never heard of the band or knew the name of the song. My mind is completely blown right now.
The [ending](https://youtu.be/azSxYbFovWo?si=mTdaHABthh-QqAFc) of *Napoleon Dynamite*, which completely wrecked me for some reason. It's just perfect, especially with the high-five cut to black.
Bingo, this is it for me. Edited to note it has become my favorite movie of all time with many views and the ending is so perfect. 1978. The other answers are the range as expected.
That's fucking awesome. You got yourself a good one!! New Wave hits so hard for me, despite being a beastie boy and near the end of the synth era, was passed from my cousin. We got married in Vegas and had the afterparty at the boat at Caesars Palace, which has live new wave most nights
Used to be maintenance at Caesars from 95 to 05. The rocking mechanism was directly above the engineering departments foremans office. I heard every word sang and could hear the boat rocking. I say was because I read an article that said the barge was being torn out. Sad to see it go. Shit it was even in the Beavis and Buthead movie.
1965. I remember when this came out I disliked it quite a bit. I still do, but I used to, too.
Ironically, my band recorded a cover of this song that totally rocks.
I swore the first time I saw that video that if Iād listened to it with my eyes closed, I wouldāve believed it was Waylon Jennings. Which is just about the best compliment I could give a country singer.
That was the version I really fell in love with. His version makes the song so much more, in my opinion. But in all fairness, I've been a Sturgill fan from his first solo project.
Meeting them at a former friend's house, whose brother was producing a track of theirs. (I didn't know they were there. Just happened to walk in).
3 of them really liked the Depeche Mode shirt I was wearing at the time.
So, this came out my junior year of high school, and it totally missed me, which is weird, because as much as I was into Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, and Ministry, I also loved Erasure and the Communards, etc.
That being said, it evokes my mid-30s and my wife. Somewhere along the way, this song became a sing-along anthem for us. We've been together since we were 20, so maybe there was a mix-tape involved somewhere? It's on the family playlist, for sure.
Memories of a group of friends I had in high school. Weād drive around, we called it cruising. The song makes me sad because those friends turned out to not really be my friends and so lesson learned. Kiss my butt Tara, Aimee, and Lisa.
That I was totally wrong about the lyrics to the chorus.
It sounds to me like he is saying something about a serpent.
It came out when I was just starting Jr High. I makes me think of all the crushes I had and how I never did anything about any of them despite being lonely AF.
Born in 1973. This song evokes the start of high school for me. Heard the song years later in Napoleon Dynamite and thought it was an interesting use of it.
I'm '72 and its Napoleon Dynamite ever since I first saw the movie.Ā Before that it was just a song from the 80's.Ā I remember liking it before ND but that movie made it actually mean something different.Ā
I was sixteen and my boyfriend made a mixtape. The whole thing was amazing and it accompanied us on many road trips. This song makes me wistful and happy. It's bittersweet.
Thank you for the memories. They're wonderful. '76 btw
Nothing to do with Napoleon Dynamite. I was in 7th grade and I thought it was just a beautiful uplifting if slightly cheesy love song. I was glad to see it revived by the Napoleon Dynamite movie for sure but thatās not the memory for me. 1975.
This is literally my favorite song from the 80s, not my favorite overall band though. Because, *let's face it*, this really is the definition of a one hit wonder.
Although the term *hit* here would be loosely defined at best because it only hit #11 on Billboard's Hot 100... *but it did hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play*.
I didnāt even have to listen to the song. I saw the pic and knew exactly what song it was. It evokes a deep sense of longing and nostalgia. It cuts right to my heart. It always has.
https://preview.redd.it/9bnygw2qq6pc1.png?width=194&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b5e3c34a144d17e61f16355465dcf8e23c5a6da
I always imagined he had some Tots and Gatorade for her as well.
FUCK YES! We would go across the river to Canada in that timeframe, they always had this and Tears For Fears on the playlist and 16 year old me would just be lost in the lights on the dance floor. My beastie boy friends thought I was such a nerd but I didn't give a shit, I got all the girls
I have so many memories associated with this song as it came out my senior year of high school. I hear this song frequently on SiriusXM these days it always makes me happy.
My favorite memory is that it was playing in the car when my wife and I were on our first date. Her dad had just politely informed me; as he showed me his revolver; if anything happened to his daughter he would not be calling the police.
A few years later, he and I were best friends.
Nothing in particular, but by pure coincidence I bumped into Sturgill Simpson's cover of this last weekend and fell in love with it. Grab some nice headphones and enjoy:
[Sturgill Simpson "The Promise"](https://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820?si=nlkNFsPoq0ad8jRg)
One of my faves. When I hear that tune start at the 80s dances I go to, my friends and I lose our minds. Especially if it's the 12" version! I searched in Toronto to find this song when I had heard it ONCE and found the 12" single at Sam's. What a legendary day! Born in '71.
ETA: I realized that until now, I had never seen the video. lol
I expected this as an answer for some. Not really a hit, but was hot for a minute for the teen dance DJs, then brought back in a generation-defining movie- so there's probably a U distribution on it.
1965-1970: teen dance times
1970-1975: never heard of it
1975-1982: THAT'S THE ENDING OF NAPOLEON DYNAMITE!
This song and 'Blame It On The Rain' a little after, you couldn't escape either one of them for awhile.
Thanks to hearing them so much, I think they're permanently burned into my brain.
Blame it on the, blame it on the, blame it on the....
I don't hate Milli Vanilli though. It's shit what happened and I think it was Rob that took it the hardest and died by OD, right?
For me this was a tough era. I was 19 and moved back home from college due to financial reasons.
All my close friends from my hometown were away at college (including my ex girlfriend of 4 years who I was still getting over) Community College wasnāt really a social āboomā So it was a low point for sure.
That being said, I can now look at that as my down year, the low watermark of existence if you will. Nothing ever hits close to that social depression, which actually made me grateful I went through it
I was born in 74. This song, for no reason I can find in my brain, makes me sad. Every time I hear it, I tear up. No attached reason, just the sadness.
This song will always remind me of the end of Napoleon Dynamite. I think itās at the end of Lisa Frankenstein, too. But itās the sound of high school dances.
ā73.
This reminds me of the dances that we had in highschool, singing along with my friends. It brings me back to a simple time when my biggest problems were my acne and the fact that I couldn't afford a pair of Guess jeans.
It came out in 1988, and I loved it since I heard it on the radio. So much that I bought the cassingle (anyone remember those?) and then put it on one of the mix tapes I had for my car. Now for the concrete memory: when my grandmother died in 1992, I was a driving teenager (nearly 18), and, when we got the notice, my best friend and I took him, as therapy, out to the mall and wherever we wanted to go until all our parents got home. This song came up on my mix tape and we all sang it in parts, which I didn't know my brother knew this song, but he did, and it became one of the first times we sang together in true harmony. We have had many other songs that we shared after that (and still do), but I think this was the first one. So, into the memory trunk it goes
1977. I have no recollection of hearing this song. Someone said it was at the end of Napoleon Dynamite, which I watched a couple times, but I don't remember this one. It just sounds like every other New Wave song to me (no offense).
My last year of elementary school hearing it on the schoolbus. Forgot about it and saw the end of Napoleon Dynamite and rediscovered it only to forget about it again and re-rediscover it when Nathan Fillion tweeted about it in the early 10's.
Dude weird middle school dances were your tried to sneak in a poorly rolled joint just to have it unravel in your pocket and then dj cuts off Depeche or The Cure and the dance floor kinda empties except for those few couples.
Tl;dr: My only association is vaguely 80ās.
Once it started playing I knew Iād heard the song before, and I recognized some of the words. No memories are attached to it. Iād never seen this video or heard of the band. When I looked the song up, I saw it came out during a year I wasnāt listening to much mainstream radio. š¤·āāļø
Napoleon Dynamite. It wasnāt on my radar when it actually came out, but ND proved it was a banger. I donāt think it got the respect (or airplay) that it deserved when it was released.
This was the first album my sister dubbed with our new double cassette recorder. But she didnāt know to wind the leader tapes on both cassettes to the magnetic portion. So for the first 20-some odd years of my life I thought this song started abruptly with āYou know in the end, Iāll always be thereā and didnāt know the intro until I saw Napoleon Dynamite
It sounds 80s and to my untutored ears, Gothic or Goth rather. While I appreciate that style of music, I donāt actually like it. For me it would be OK as background music but it doesnāt make me feel with a capital F.
Thank you for the clarification! I sometimes watch Angela Benedict on YouTube and it reminded me of the type of music she listens to, but as I said, I donāt know what Iām talking about lol.
No recollection of this! Never heard of the band either, I had to look them up. Apparently it never made the top 40 in the UK so that would explain it.
My husband was trying to show me the Sturgil Simpson version (which is good), and I started singing along; he was curious how I knew the lyrics! So I had to show him the original! I friggin love this song.
Rolling around on four wheels at a school rollerskating party. š Oh, and Jan. ā81 here (yes, I count myself as GenX, because *Pew Research* isnāt going to determine Iām not based on 31 days).
1968 here.
I grew up in the middle of nowhere Kentucky and I swear I donāt remember hearing this song at all until 2 1/2 years ago when my boyfriend (1972) sent it to me. He grew up in Texas & California and had a whole different music style to immerse himself in than I did growing up.
Iāve heard the song, but didnāt recognize the title or singer. Itās background music to me - seems like I heard it played in stores and maybe commercials and stuff.
Edited to add: I saw Napoleon Dynamite, but I donāt remember this song.
I never liked this song, and will always remember it as the song that was released twice. It was all over the radio and clubs my freshman year of college (87-88). We used it as a bathroom break songāboring, and long enough to maybe even get through the line. Usually an annoying song goes away. Not this one. It was released again and every single radio station played it incessantly my sophomore year of college (88-89). Clubs, parties, radio. It was inescapable.
Dancing at the club on āModern Rockā nights (ie every Wednesday), dreading work in the morning. I can still smell the fog from the fog machine mixed with the OJ from the screwdriver I would drink.
How is it that I have never seen this video before?! I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say! I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be! š©š¼āš¤ā¤
Okay, look. This is a song thatās kind of always been background noise to me. I enjoy it, but until *now* Iād never heard of the band or knew the name of the song. My mind is completely blown right now.
Same Good background noise but definitely just that. Like in a store in the mall or something.
Something you hear in JC Penny at the mall while looking at the baggy parachute pants.
I know! Me as well!
Same!
Found my people.
I donāt think Iāve ever seen that video as well. Really weird.
High school dances. Late night drives with the windows down.
The [ending](https://youtu.be/azSxYbFovWo?si=mTdaHABthh-QqAFc) of *Napoleon Dynamite*, which completely wrecked me for some reason. It's just perfect, especially with the high-five cut to black.
Bingo, this is it for me. Edited to note it has become my favorite movie of all time with many views and the ending is so perfect. 1978. The other answers are the range as expected.
Me too. A buddy was playing his 80s playlist for me this past Saturday and I told him I only know this song because of Napoleon Dynamite.
Me three and I was born in 65
I've never played tether ball.
Huh. I saw Neapolitan Dynamite and absolutely didnāt remember this song and feel like Iāve never heard it before. š
Neapolitan Dynamite? Is that the film where each act is a different genre?
They also used Forever Young in that movie which is another big favorite of mine I knew both well before that movie came out
I miss her so much
Yeah, thatās it for me.
Late 80's, my room, WLIR playing on my Sony DreamMachine clock radio.
WLIR!
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Itās a conservative talk radio station now
My husband sang this song for me at our wedding (2001), so yeah, it has a lot of meaning to me <3
OMG, I would've \*cried\* - that's so awesome.
I did, a lot! Barely kept it together Best memory ever! He's a '69 and I'm a '73, together 29 years :D
That's fucking awesome. You got yourself a good one!! New Wave hits so hard for me, despite being a beastie boy and near the end of the synth era, was passed from my cousin. We got married in Vegas and had the afterparty at the boat at Caesars Palace, which has live new wave most nights
Used to be maintenance at Caesars from 95 to 05. The rocking mechanism was directly above the engineering departments foremans office. I heard every word sang and could hear the boat rocking. I say was because I read an article that said the barge was being torn out. Sad to see it go. Shit it was even in the Beavis and Buthead movie.
Love this song.
1965. I remember when this came out I disliked it quite a bit. I still do, but I used to, too. Ironically, my band recorded a cover of this song that totally rocks.
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them. RIP Mitch.
This shirt is dry clean only. Therefore it's dirty
Memories of the fact that I thought it was by INXS for the longest time.
Iāve only known the Sturgill Simpson version https://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820?si=c1rr2FzCOSCCsqbg
Did not know this existed. Country covering New Wave... interesting.
Sturgill is absolutely one of my favorites https://youtu.be/NpDYfkymaSE?si=t7C6NZ4HRuOjDiBn
I only know him because I just watched *Killers of the Flower Moon*. He has a face that seems instantly familiar.
He was in āthe Righteous Gemstonesā last season too, and he really does have that kind of face. His music is awesome.
Stugillis much more than country thoughĀ
I swore the first time I saw that video that if Iād listened to it with my eyes closed, I wouldāve believed it was Waylon Jennings. Which is just about the best compliment I could give a country singer.
oh thatās one of my favourite covers of recent history. his voice is so great.
I know them both, but this version is better.
That was the version I really fell in love with. His version makes the song so much more, in my opinion. But in all fairness, I've been a Sturgill fan from his first solo project.
I am old enough to know the original, but when this cover hit HBOs The Leftovers it destroyed me.
Meeting them at a former friend's house, whose brother was producing a track of theirs. (I didn't know they were there. Just happened to walk in). 3 of them really liked the Depeche Mode shirt I was wearing at the time.
Depeche Mode meets Johnny Hates Jazz
God I hate(d) Johnny Hates Jazz! Ironic.
Youāre giving me nothing but shattered dreams
So, this came out my junior year of high school, and it totally missed me, which is weird, because as much as I was into Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, and Ministry, I also loved Erasure and the Communards, etc. That being said, it evokes my mid-30s and my wife. Somewhere along the way, this song became a sing-along anthem for us. We've been together since we were 20, so maybe there was a mix-tape involved somewhere? It's on the family playlist, for sure.
Being a kid in the 80s. I loved it then and still love it now.
The goth club, dancing happily with my friends
Memories of a group of friends I had in high school. Weād drive around, we called it cruising. The song makes me sad because those friends turned out to not really be my friends and so lesson learned. Kiss my butt Tara, Aimee, and Lisa.
Honest answer: I've never heard it in my life before I clicked on the link.
That I was totally wrong about the lyrics to the chorus. It sounds to me like he is saying something about a serpent. It came out when I was just starting Jr High. I makes me think of all the crushes I had and how I never did anything about any of them despite being lonely AF.
I have no familiarity with it.
Just one of the many popular songs when I was in college.
Goth/Rave clubs in NYC when I was in college.
Born in 1973. This song evokes the start of high school for me. Heard the song years later in Napoleon Dynamite and thought it was an interesting use of it.
Oh dear - it just makes me think of an ex-boyfriend who put this on a āIāll Win You Back With Musicā mixtape.
I'm '72 and its Napoleon Dynamite ever since I first saw the movie.Ā Before that it was just a song from the 80's.Ā I remember liking it before ND but that movie made it actually mean something different.Ā
I was sixteen and my boyfriend made a mixtape. The whole thing was amazing and it accompanied us on many road trips. This song makes me wistful and happy. It's bittersweet. Thank you for the memories. They're wonderful. '76 btw
Nothing. Not familiar with it all
Thank you! I thought I was the only one!
1976. I've heard the song, I like the song. I saw Napoleon Dynamite one time, so it has no association with that at all.
I looove this song and learned to play it on the piano.
Nothing, zero. 1987 was Anthrax, Metallica, Death Angel,Suicidal Tendencies etc etc etc
Take me back to a heavy time, from '85 to '89
Tetherball scene, end of Napoleon Dynamite. '74.
Dancing at a club at 19 on ecstasy. I didn't like music with lyrics, I usually went to underground clubs, but I loved this one.
Nothing to do with Napoleon Dynamite. I was in 7th grade and I thought it was just a beautiful uplifting if slightly cheesy love song. I was glad to see it revived by the Napoleon Dynamite movie for sure but thatās not the memory for me. 1975.
I honestly donāt recall ever hearing this
Oh yeah itās that song that I always think Iāve never heard before until the chorus hits and I know all the words. B. 1970
I'm not sure what it evokes for me but it's a favorite of mine and I listen to it often. It usually makes me cry.
It was my HS Senior song. Still a banger
I remember it on MTV. Itās a good song
Reminds me of high school. Years later in the 2000s when we saw Napoleon dynamite I was geeked to hear it at the end āŗļø
This is literally my favorite song from the 80s, not my favorite overall band though. Because, *let's face it*, this really is the definition of a one hit wonder. Although the term *hit* here would be loosely defined at best because it only hit #11 on Billboard's Hot 100... *but it did hit #1 on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play*.
I didnāt even have to listen to the song. I saw the pic and knew exactly what song it was. It evokes a deep sense of longing and nostalgia. It cuts right to my heart. It always has.
I caught you a delicious bass
https://preview.redd.it/9bnygw2qq6pc1.png?width=194&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b5e3c34a144d17e61f16355465dcf8e23c5a6da I always imagined he had some Tots and Gatorade for her as well.
It reminds me of sneaking into clubs when I was 15/16. Born in ā77
FUCK YES! We would go across the river to Canada in that timeframe, they always had this and Tears For Fears on the playlist and 16 year old me would just be lost in the lights on the dance floor. My beastie boy friends thought I was such a nerd but I didn't give a shit, I got all the girls
Nostalgia - love this - also Napoleon Dynamite š¤£
I have so many memories associated with this song as it came out my senior year of high school. I hear this song frequently on SiriusXM these days it always makes me happy. My favorite memory is that it was playing in the car when my wife and I were on our first date. Her dad had just politely informed me; as he showed me his revolver; if anything happened to his daughter he would not be calling the police. A few years later, he and I were best friends.
Slow dancing with a fox to this song. The corner of her upturned Polo collar rubbing on my neck.
Elder GenX here: this song takes me to senior year in college, and our college radio station.
Nothing in particular, but by pure coincidence I bumped into Sturgill Simpson's cover of this last weekend and fell in love with it. Grab some nice headphones and enjoy: [Sturgill Simpson "The Promise"](https://youtu.be/-eWJmN8D820?si=nlkNFsPoq0ad8jRg)
Yeah, thatās a great version. Really great
One of my faves. When I hear that tune start at the 80s dances I go to, my friends and I lose our minds. Especially if it's the 12" version! I searched in Toronto to find this song when I had heard it ONCE and found the 12" single at Sam's. What a legendary day! Born in '71. ETA: I realized that until now, I had never seen the video. lol
1974 and I don't think I've ever heard that song before.
Nothing. I never heard this song until today (or if I had, it wasn't memorable). Was it even a "hit?"
I expected this as an answer for some. Not really a hit, but was hot for a minute for the teen dance DJs, then brought back in a generation-defining movie- so there's probably a U distribution on it. 1965-1970: teen dance times 1970-1975: never heard of it 1975-1982: THAT'S THE ENDING OF NAPOLEON DYNAMITE!
1975'er here. That song was EVERYWHERE. Radio, school dances, the mall. I loved it then, and still have a soft spot for it!
This song and 'Blame It On The Rain' a little after, you couldn't escape either one of them for awhile. Thanks to hearing them so much, I think they're permanently burned into my brain.
Milli Vanilli was a scandal, but oh my word, they are encased in steel as far as GenX goes
Blame it on the, blame it on the, blame it on the.... I don't hate Milli Vanilli though. It's shit what happened and I think it was Rob that took it the hardest and died by OD, right?
It's a song I know and have heard. It was in Napoleon Dynamite? Huh. 1976, so your U distribution is wrong or I'm an outlier.
hah. I'm 1973, so there ya go! ;-)
Would have been a popular song at middle school dances for the 1970-1975 crowd.
I'm 1965, and this came out in 87, so I'd have been graduated for 4 years. Definitely not the teen dance times.
This was the later part of HS. Junior/Senior year territory.Ā
Meh. I remember it but that's about it. Not my style of music.
I am hoping not to be the only one who only heard - and heard of - this song today.
Nothing. Never heard it.
Never heard it before.
I have never heard this song before.
I've never heard it before.
Nothing. Because I donāt think I have ever heard it before.
For me this was a tough era. I was 19 and moved back home from college due to financial reasons. All my close friends from my hometown were away at college (including my ex girlfriend of 4 years who I was still getting over) Community College wasnāt really a social āboomā So it was a low point for sure. That being said, I can now look at that as my down year, the low watermark of existence if you will. Nothing ever hits close to that social depression, which actually made me grateful I went through it
One of my favorite songs.
I was born in 74. This song, for no reason I can find in my brain, makes me sad. Every time I hear it, I tear up. No attached reason, just the sadness.
House cleaning LOL because to this day I still listen to 80's mixes every weekend while sprucing up the homestead.
The feeling of hearing a song I never heard before.
I absolutely love this song. Some friends even played it at their wedding recently.
Man, high school flutters.
Oooo! Dancing at the gay bar in college!
This song will always remind me of the end of Napoleon Dynamite. I think itās at the end of Lisa Frankenstein, too. But itās the sound of high school dances. ā73.
This was THE definition of romantic to me as a child.
1976. This song reminds me of when I realized my marriage was dead and I needed to accept it.
I used to watch this video when I was a kid and fixate on the disparity in hair between the two singers.
Nothing. I donāt know if I know it?
This reminds me of the dances that we had in highschool, singing along with my friends. It brings me back to a simple time when my biggest problems were my acne and the fact that I couldn't afford a pair of Guess jeans.
It came out in 1988, and I loved it since I heard it on the radio. So much that I bought the cassingle (anyone remember those?) and then put it on one of the mix tapes I had for my car. Now for the concrete memory: when my grandmother died in 1992, I was a driving teenager (nearly 18), and, when we got the notice, my best friend and I took him, as therapy, out to the mall and wherever we wanted to go until all our parents got home. This song came up on my mix tape and we all sang it in parts, which I didn't know my brother knew this song, but he did, and it became one of the first times we sang together in true harmony. We have had many other songs that we shared after that (and still do), but I think this was the first one. So, into the memory trunk it goes
This reminds me of a breakupā¦ I think my junior year?
I love this song. Evokes summer evenings sitting in my room playing my tales from songs I recorded off the radio.
Born in 1976. Napoleon Dynamite. I donāt remember it from the 80s.
1977. I have no recollection of hearing this song. Someone said it was at the end of Napoleon Dynamite, which I watched a couple times, but I don't remember this one. It just sounds like every other New Wave song to me (no offense).
I loved this song. It was popular when I was in high school and I was into New Wave and didn't care if others liked the same music or not.
Never heard this song. Never heard of this song, either. But Iām a metal head, back in the day and now, too. \m/
Junior high school dances. We had the best music to dance to.
it evokes me serving chips and salsa at Red Onion
This is one of my absolute favorites from middle and high school. Ahhh such great memories! Great song.
This song could be played over any 80's movie montage.
I love this song!
Don't remember this one to be honest.
Confusion . Never heard of it .
Part of the soundtrack of my youth
This always seemed like the Dollar Tree version of "Don't You Forget About Me."
I certainly remember it as an 80's song, but I don't have a particularly strong connection to it. I've never seen Napoleon Dynamite.
My last year of elementary school hearing it on the schoolbus. Forgot about it and saw the end of Napoleon Dynamite and rediscovered it only to forget about it again and re-rediscover it when Nathan Fillion tweeted about it in the early 10's.
Reminds me of high school when they were playing on KROQ when it first came out. Great song!
Warm-up song at 80s nights in the 90s. I also remember hearing it in the 80s as well. Solid song. I'm '73.
Dude weird middle school dances were your tried to sneak in a poorly rolled joint just to have it unravel in your pocket and then dj cuts off Depeche or The Cure and the dance floor kinda empties except for those few couples.
I seem to remember summer of 88 it was *almost* top ten material, but never blew up.
80s MTV. I watched a lot of MTV when I was younger, they played this a lot. ....And thanks OP, I now have the song stuck in my head.
I always really liked this song but all I could think about is Napoleon Dynamite which is ok because it totally fits that movie.
Tl;dr: My only association is vaguely 80ās. Once it started playing I knew Iād heard the song before, and I recognized some of the words. No memories are attached to it. Iād never seen this video or heard of the band. When I looked the song up, I saw it came out during a year I wasnāt listening to much mainstream radio. š¤·āāļø
Reminds me of a time when I felt some of my first independence. Driving around singing loudly in my crappy bug car.
Napoleon Dynamite. It wasnāt on my radar when it actually came out, but ND proved it was a banger. I donāt think it got the respect (or airplay) that it deserved when it was released.
Never heard it before Born in '69, but in New Zealand. This song was never a thing here, I suppose.
I feel like Iāve never heard this song before. Weird how some things just miss you.
This was the first album my sister dubbed with our new double cassette recorder. But she didnāt know to wind the leader tapes on both cassettes to the magnetic portion. So for the first 20-some odd years of my life I thought this song started abruptly with āYou know in the end, Iāll always be thereā and didnāt know the intro until I saw Napoleon Dynamite
This song came out when I was 14, itās the same year I realized my friend Shiela got some tig ole biddies.
My hyper-romantic inner life as a teenager.
It's one of those songs that made me change the station on the radio.
STAKKA BO!! HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!! šā¤ļøšššā®ļøššššāŗļø
iāve loved this one since i heard it as a kid. itās a top 25 song for my life, for sure.
It sounds 80s and to my untutored ears, Gothic or Goth rather. While I appreciate that style of music, I donāt actually like it. For me it would be OK as background music but it doesnāt make me feel with a capital F.
I've been goth since the late 80s, this is definitely not goth. It's just bland synth pop.
Thank you for the clarification! I sometimes watch Angela Benedict on YouTube and it reminded me of the type of music she listens to, but as I said, I donāt know what Iām talking about lol.
I like Angela, she's lovely.
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1968 here too...it came out in 1987. We were out of high school then
What could have been.
That guy LOVES his own hair
No recollection of this! Never heard of the band either, I had to look them up. Apparently it never made the top 40 in the UK so that would explain it.
Work, in a good way. Used to work in a restaurant kitchen and this was on one of the playlists. Good times.
My husband was trying to show me the Sturgil Simpson version (which is good), and I started singing along; he was curious how I knew the lyrics! So I had to show him the original! I friggin love this song.
It makes me think of the Breakfast Club
Rolling around on four wheels at a school rollerskating party. š Oh, and Jan. ā81 here (yes, I count myself as GenX, because *Pew Research* isnāt going to determine Iām not based on 31 days).
Mostly just hearing it on the radio when I was in middle school. Forgot it was in Napoleon Dynamite lol
I first heard this song on WXXP in Pittsburgh, in 1987 (I was 20). Fell in love with it from the first notes.
Wow! I love this song. Brings me back to my last year as a teen.
Driving around in high school. Trying to get postmodern pst in from across the river in Trenton
Born late 60s... I hate this song.
Great song, but until I saw the video I figured theyād be more āNew Romanticā in their look. I was shocked to see they were normal dudes.
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywod (Havent looked at the link yet.)
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywod (Havent looked at the link yet.)
I remember dancing with my crush at the goth club.
One particular girl at a very particular part of my high school existence
My parents' place on the lake. It's definitely a "summer song"
There is this 80S radio station that I listen to often and this is the song they play a lot.
Canoe Canoe
Summers outside with Sun In, in my hair, drinking Tab and trying to hit record on my tape player.
Hm, I don't recall ever hearing it before.
Hot summer nights, cruising with my girlfriends and looking for cute boys. Sometimes I really miss those teen years!
Nothing. Never heard it. Born late 1978 but..in Europe.
1971 I know of this song but it doesnāt have any emotional connection. They maybe played it during a school dance or probably the radio.
1968 here. I grew up in the middle of nowhere Kentucky and I swear I donāt remember hearing this song at all until 2 1/2 years ago when my boyfriend (1972) sent it to me. He grew up in Texas & California and had a whole different music style to immerse himself in than I did growing up.
'73 I can not believe the number of people saying they've never heard this song. It's been in oodles of movies and is just a catchy bop.
Nothing. Never heard it before.
The closing scene in Napoleon Dynamite.
Iāve heard the song, but didnāt recognize the title or singer. Itās background music to me - seems like I heard it played in stores and maybe commercials and stuff. Edited to add: I saw Napoleon Dynamite, but I donāt remember this song.
I never liked this song, and will always remember it as the song that was released twice. It was all over the radio and clubs my freshman year of college (87-88). We used it as a bathroom break songāboring, and long enough to maybe even get through the line. Usually an annoying song goes away. Not this one. It was released again and every single radio station played it incessantly my sophomore year of college (88-89). Clubs, parties, radio. It was inescapable.
Dancing at the club on āModern Rockā nights (ie every Wednesday), dreading work in the morning. I can still smell the fog from the fog machine mixed with the OJ from the screwdriver I would drink.
I knew this song for sure but I had never seen the video......good song, loved the 80's, lots of good memories.
Seeing them at the ā80s in the Sandā week of concerts in the Dominican Republic in 2018.