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Post by tico on Oct 9, 2003 17:54:26 GMT -5
Released in the late 70s, it's among the most recognizable Iggy Pop songs. This song was used in commercials for Mitsubishi and Royal Caribbean cruises, and is also the opening theme song for the Jim Rome sports radio show.
I love the beat to this song. It gets me pumped every time I hear it, even if there isn't anything for me to get pumped up for.
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Post by FreakyFlyBry on Oct 9, 2003 18:08:06 GMT -5
It was a good song.
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Post by stevie nice on Oct 9, 2003 18:17:20 GMT -5
It's also featured in the fine soundtrack to "Trainspotting" and unfortunately didn't become big until its use in commercials and movies in the mid 90s.
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Post by reception on Apr 24, 2004 8:41:49 GMT -5
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Post by irock on Apr 24, 2004 21:19:26 GMT -5
It's also featured in the fine soundtrack to "Trainspotting" and unfortunately didn't become big until its use in commercials and movies in the mid 90s. WZZQ, Jackson's first rock station, was on the air at the time this was originally released. I remember they had a punk rock show on Friday nights. You'd hear this track fairly often; I seem to remember that it was a hit (at least on ZZQ) at about the same time as The Vapors' Turning Japanese. I love LFL. I think I started a thread about it once on the old R&R boards.
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Post by stevie nice on Apr 25, 2004 3:56:53 GMT -5
WZZQ, Jackson's first rock station, was on the air at the time this was originally released. I remember they had a punk rock show on Friday nights. You'd hear this track fairly often; I seem to remember that it was a hit (at least on ZZQ) at about the same time as The Vapors' Turning Japanese. I love LFL. I think I started a thread about it once on the old R&R boards. I think "LFL" was a few years ahead of "Turning Japanese." Vapors came out in 1979 or 1980 I think. My father used to live after my parents divorced in 1976, on 23rd and 1st avenue in NYC, and there was a record store there called Musical Maze. One of their employees was Peter Holsapple, who was a member of a band called the DBs, who should have had the success REM eventually had. The two bands in their early years were pretty interchangable. He got me started on a lot of this early alternative rock, suggesting every week new songs and imports which had been released. Got me into bands like the Motors (whose "Love And Loneliness" is my 4th all time favorite song), the Pretenders, Police, Ian Dury, Rachel Sweet, and God knows what else that he suggested that became a part of my life in my early teens. I wonder what ever happened to him. As for the rock station, we had a rock station here, WNEW, that was technically a classic rock format, but was so much stronger than that. They had a friday afternoon show with dj Scott Muni, called Things From England that did a great job of adding these tracks in between your usual classic rock fare. We also had WPIX, which in the late 70s played the top 40 tracks that our top 40s of the time, 99x (WXLO), 77WABC, and 66WNBC, didn't bother to play. They changed to a modern rock format, and that is where I learned of bands like XTC and one hit wonders like Flying Lizards and Marianne Faithfull, and a lot of that late 70s, 1980-81 pre-new wave stuff. It was funny, WPIX had a countdown show, top 10 at 8 or something, with Dr. Jerry as the DJ, and for months, there would be these obscure tracks on the countdown by XTC (Ten Feet Tall, Making Plans For Nigel) and bands of that style, and in there through it all, was Cliff Richards pop smash "We Don't Talk Anymore." Funny how that song connected with a crowd listeneing to The Specials and The Selector and the Ramones etc...
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Post by gonecountry on Dec 31, 2022 9:57:39 GMT -5
Hard to believe that this song was released in 1977. Still sounds fresh today. Only hit Top 10 in a couple European countries when it was originally released. Made the UK Top 30 upon rerelease in 1996. Never made an appearance on the Hot 100.
In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked it No. 149 on their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time", re-ranking it No. 325 in their 2021 updated list.
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Post by disman00911 on Apr 22, 2023 17:15:55 GMT -5
One of the most unique-sounding 70s songs.
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