Complete This Lyric
Here's a trivia question. Complete these lyrics, by naming the song and artist and, for bonus points, when it charted on Billboard:
I got a job waiting
For my graduation
50 thou a year'll
by a lot of beer
Things are goin' great
And they're only gettin' better....
Well? Can you do it?
By the way, it's cheating if you use Google to help you. ;-)
The futures so bright I got to wear shades ?
Timbuk3... got it on mp3..
Don't know when it charted, but my elementary school used it to finish out a play with a beach scene and I really remember the kid with the E.T. mask (who held up a towel except for the word "shades." Can you say surreal?) That would have been about 87, I think. Maybe 88.
"I'm doin' alright, gettin' good grades
"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"
Timbuk 3
From the album Greetings from Timbuk 3 IRS Records 1986 -- I'm holding it in my hand right now!
Ha! "Peeping Tom turkey with x-ray eyes"
Too much. I'd forgotten all about this song.
From my Billboard Top 40 book,
Debuted: 11/22/86
Highest Chart Position: 19
Total Weeks: 9
I study Nuclear Science
I love my classes...
I got this crazy teacher, he wears dark glasses.
Things are going great!
And they're only getting better.
Love that song. Thanks a lot, DEAN! I'll be singing this for the next 24 hours.
Heh. A song that was made when $50,000 a year was a good example of an outrageous salary.
It's still not bad for someone fresh out of college. ;-)
Hey, $50,000 still is an outrageous salary to me. I'm just over two years out and I'm raking in a cool $22,141.
Timbuk 3 is very underrated. If it's possible, check out the kewl lyrics of "Rev. Jack and his Roamin' Cadillac Church"
-E
Wasn't "Mexican Radio" theirs? And a classic cover of "Ring of Fire"? Great band.
Don't know if they wrote "Mexican Radio," but "Wall of Voodoo" was the group I remember singing it.
Does anyone know a song that's nibbling at the edge of the charts right now which has a back beat of some guy saying "Shake it" over and over, and one of the lines is "Give me some sugar: I am your neighbor."
I've heard it once and loved it but can't track the title/artist.
$50,000 is not bad these days, but it's achievable. It's not outrageous. :)
Wall of Voodoo's closest thing to a hit was "Mexican Radio" - they did the "Ring of Fire" cover a year or two before.
"Does anyone know a song that's nibbling at the edge of the charts right now which has a back beat of some guy saying "Shake it" over and over, and one of the lines is "Give me some sugar: I am your neighbor.""
Outkast - Hey Ya