Posted on 08/06/2022 6:00:29 AM PDT by C19fan
Lyndsey Parker Lyndsey Parker·Editor in Chief, Yahoo Music Fri, August 5, 2022 at 4:54 PM Robbie Grey of Modern English in 1983. (Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) Robbie Grey of Modern English in 1983. (Photo: Paul Natkin/Getty Images) “The amount of times we get told people got married to our song, made love to that song for the first time… whatever, it's lovely. But literally the lyrics are about a couple making love as the atom bomb drops and sort of melting together,” Modern English frontman Robbie Grey says with a chuckle. “But that's quite good. I like the fact that it's got layers to it — that people can get what they want from it. … I like the fact that it's like a love song, but with a dark lyric.”
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I never got that meaning from the lyrics. Now, “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” is another story.
Well looking at the lyrics hard to see how this is about what the writer says it is about…
Anti war songs were crap in the 80s, at least in terms of actually conveying their meaning
Apparently “the safety dance” is supposed to be anti nuclear war song too.
99 Red Balloons got its message across well while being very listenable. On the other hand, not being beaten over the head with the message meant we could just enjoy the music.
I would’ve never guessed this song was about an atomic bomb.
Never thought of that meaning.
Another misunderstood song is “Every breath you take,” police’s song about a stocker.
It’s pretty obvious from the lyrics every breath you take is a stalker song…
Melt with you, anti war?!? Not anything in the lyrics remotely suggests it is
Modern English still tours regularly. And they have lot of good songs.
I always thought “Holiday in Cambodia” by the Dead Kennedys described the American Left best of all.
The video does not support this authors claims at all.
Wait... I was thinking of the wrong song. This is the valley girl song. Good movie.
The DK’s “Love me, I’m a Liberal” also does a good job a describing the American Left.
Every song by The Fixx was pretty much an anti-nuclear war song.
Or California Uber Alles.
Bands had little control over how the videos were made.
“Wait... I was thinking of the wrong song. This is the valley girl song. Good movie.”
Yep, the Valley Girl soundtrack is very good, well worth seeking out a used CD. The vastly underrated Plimsouls have 3 songs on the soundtrack.
As well as “Kill the Poor”.
Another one that mocked progressivism is “Halloween”, or if you want an anti-Antifa one, “Riot”.
I have the Plimsouls vinyl EP. They should have been bigger.
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