strong4PMB!
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Post by strong4PMB! on Nov 9, 2003 18:46:40 GMT -5
I've loved this song ever since I was like seven. When was it released? My sister bought me the cassette single and I used to slow it down on my family's old tape player to try to figure out what was being said in the fast part. Since I never figured it out, I just made up my own lyrics to that part. I almost remember slowing it down on the tape player as vividly as I remember talking over the "On Bended Knee" instrumental by Boyz II Men during one of my "talk shows."  Do any of you remember this song?  |
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Nov 9, 2003 20:43:49 GMT -5
I love it! It hit the Top 40 around May or June 1995. I remember trying to convince a friend that it hit the Top 40 and she would NOT believe me because it wasn't a song that radio would play. LOL!
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irice22
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Post by irice22 on Nov 9, 2003 20:48:07 GMT -5
Is this the "I want you to want me" song?
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Post by Hervard on Nov 9, 2003 23:13:31 GMT -5
I know, the song's sort of like the "Louie Louie" of the 1990s. I looked up the lyrics on the internet, but all the sites say "the fast part again" when they get to the chorus.
This song has the distinction of being a song that dropped out of the Top 40 the week after it peaked. Its Top 40 run was 39-36-33-31-off. I did tape part of the chorus from the song as U93 played it as part of their Top 93 of 1995, when it came in at number 91.
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Post by mst3k on Nov 9, 2003 23:42:18 GMT -5
I've got the CD single, and I've never been able to figure out what she's saying in that fast part either. Love the song anyway!
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Post by crash46 on Nov 10, 2003 0:31:39 GMT -5
It was too left fieldish for me to enjoy when I was twelve, but if I made a hindsight top songs of 1994 list, this would probably be in the top 10. Kay Hanley's vocals are so sexy and I'm mad that I never got the chance to hear anymore of the band's other tracks.
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Post by thisbeautifulmess on Nov 10, 2003 1:59:15 GMT -5
It was too left fieldish for me to enjoy when I was twelve, but if I made a hindsight top songs of 1994 list, this would probably be in the top 10. Kay Hanley's vocals are so sexy and I'm mad that I never got the chance to hear anymore of the band's other tracks. This was actually 1995. "Awake" is their other single that I know of. It was okay. |
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Post by BFMR on Nov 10, 2003 13:33:50 GMT -5
Is this the "I want you to want me" song? no, that is actually the song "Cruel To Be Kind" |
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Post by Devil Marlena Nylund on Nov 10, 2003 14:14:08 GMT -5
Don't they have a song called 'I Want You To Want Me' on a soundtrack of some sort? I think there's a CD of theirs downtown in one of the used CD shops down there. I should pick it up. I have the mp3 for 'Here And Now' and listen to it maybe on a bi-weekly basis.
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George Tropicana
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Post by George Tropicana on Nov 10, 2003 14:36:07 GMT -5
Don't they have a song called 'I Want You To Want Me' on a soundtrack of some sort? That's a cheapTrick cover and it's on the soundtrack to "10 Things I Hate About You." The band is also seen singing it on top a roof during the closing credits. I haven't heard this Letters to Cleo song but I've heard their song in the "Baby Sitter's Club" movie! :) The lead singer Kay Hanley (sp?) went on to sing as "Josie" on all the songs on the terrific "Josie and The Pussycats" soundtrack. |
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Post by iceman on Nov 10, 2003 14:44:53 GMT -5
This song use to annoy me so much when it was out. My pop station played it quite a bit. I have grown to like it now.
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Post by Nicholas2.0 on Nov 10, 2003 15:15:36 GMT -5
I haven't heard this Letters to Cleo song but I've heard their song in the "Baby Sitter's Club" movie! :) The lead singer Kay Hanley (sp?) went on to sing as "Josie" on all the songs on the terrific "Josie and The p***ycats" soundtrack. Hmm... here's an overly sensitive censoring function. This song kicked ass. I really wish it had been a bigger hit, so I could've heard it more. If this song ever turns up on a pay-download site, I'll have no problem shelling out 99 cents for this. "Awake" was also pretty good, as was the first single on their 1997 album. "Go", maybe? I can't remember... |
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Post by Hervard on Mar 30, 2004 20:32:54 GMT -5
I have it!
The comfort of the knowledge of a rise above the sky above could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the Here and Now, Here and Now...
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Post by Jeffster on Mar 31, 2004 8:32:31 GMT -5
A great song by a great band. I think their follow-up album, Wholesale Meats and Fish, was even better than the self-titled one. Whole bunch of great songs.
codenut makes me feel old though, talking about "when i was seven"..man, this song came out when I was in college. Used to see the video when I watched "Alternative Nation" on MTV.
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Post by tico on Mar 31, 2004 8:33:11 GMT -5
Cool song.
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Post by Slinky on Mar 31, 2004 9:24:10 GMT -5
I have it! The comfort of the knowledge of a rise above the sky above could never parallel the challenge of an acquisition in the Here and Now, Here and Now... Sweet! I always wondered what it was too. Cool song. |
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Post by cartman2002 on Dec 12, 2006 20:06:56 GMT -5
I know, the song's sort of like the "Louie Louie" of the 1990s. I looked up the lyrics on the internet, but all the sites say "the fast part again" when they get to the chorus. This song has the distinction of being a song that dropped out of the Top 40 the week after it peaked. Its Top 40 run was 39-36-33-31-off. I did tape part of the chorus from the song as U93 played it as part of their Top 93 of 1995, when it came in at number 91. It went to #56 on the Hot 100 in 1995 and I knew a record store owner who was a big fan of the group |
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Post by joker on Dec 12, 2006 20:42:57 GMT -5
I like it.
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Post by busyboy on Oct 6, 2008 16:09:55 GMT -5
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Verisimilitude
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Post by Verisimilitude on Aug 14, 2017 23:59:57 GMT -5
Great song. Still sounds so fresh.
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