So another update! Been listening to believe it or not, AQUA’s new song, ‘Back to the 80’s”. And I love the song!

Back in the Ronald Reagan days
When we put satellites in space
When boys wore skinny leather ties
Like Don Johnson from Miami Vice

When Eminem was just a snack
And Michael Jackson's skin was black
Back when the coolest thing in store, oo-oh-oh
Was a Commodore 64

Back to the 80s
Back to Soap
Back to Rocky and Cherry Coke, yeah
Those were the days
And we go
Back to the 80s

Say 'Hey there, Mister T.'
Put Twisted Sisters on MTV
Those were the days
I'll come back
To Iron Maiden and 7Up
Bananarama and Breakfast Club
Come back Come back
I'll come back

When Huey Lewis was the news
And we went flying with Tom Cruise
When shoulder pads and looking tough, ooh-oh-oh
Was the dirty David Hasselhoff

Too many men with heavy makeup on (Hey)
Too many poodles with guitars
Thanks for all the joy you've given us
You will always be our superstars

Back to the 80s
Back to Soap (Back to soul)
Back to Rocky and Cherry Coke, yeah
Those were the days
And we go

Back to the 80s
Say 'Hey there, Mister T.'
Put Twisted Sisters on MTV, yeah
Those were the days
I'll come back

To Iron Maiden and 7-Up
Bananarama and Breakfast Club
Come back
Come back
I'll come back

Hooray for Cosby and Rubik's cube
Hooray for Dynasty and moon boots
Hooray for Devo and barber curls
Hooray for Poltergeist and Barbie girls

We love
We love
We love
We love

Back to the 80s (We love the 80s)
Back to Soap (We love it all)
Back to Rocky and Cherry Coke, yeah
Those were the days...
Let's go back!

Back to the 80s (To Ferris Bueller)
To Mister T. (Yeah)
And Twisted Sisters on MTV, yeah
Those were the days
I'll come back
To Iron Maiden and 7Up

Bananarama and Breakfast Club
Come back

Songs like these, and “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel makes me wish I lived in the 70s or 80s. There were so many things happening then! So many turning points and major events in the world happened then. It makes me wonder what our generation is known for. Obama? That’s pretty much what I can come up with. And being known for stuff like Jonas Brothers/Miley Cyrus. The 70s and 80s had Queen, Iron Maiden, KISS, Metallica, Guns n Roses, need I say more? But then again the 70s and 80s were still wrought with turmoil and a hostile USSR. Hmmm.

For an instant summary of history from 1949-1989, simply listen to Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire.

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray                    South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I", and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Josef Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball,
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land,
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away, what else do I have to say

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock

Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and Roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning since the world's been turning.
We didn't start the fire
But when we are gone
It will still burn on, and on, and on, and on...
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning

We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire...

I think it would be way easier listening to the song than reading the lyrics. Just Youtube it. From Wikipedia, it says “The song and music video have been interpreted as a rebuttal to criticism of Joel's Baby Boomer generation, from both its preceding and succeeding generations. The song's title and refrain imply that the frenzied and troubled state which others were criticizing had been the state of the world since long before his generation's time, but that this was being ignored by their critics.”

And just as I was thinking that my love for music was dying, along came the urge to download FOB’s mixtape: Welcome To The New Administration. It will not be released in a CD, since its just a mixtape, but it honestly should. It is the most cohesive album I’ve ever heard, one song links perfectly to the next, though that might be because DJ Clinton Sparks and some others are talking a lot of time eg. Pete Wentz, Gabe Saporta from Cobra Starship, William Beckett from The Academy Is…, Brendon Urie from Panic at the Disco, Cassadee from Hey Monday, Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes… Well basically its made up of Fueled by Ramen/Decaydance bands, and there’s Ludacris on it too, on the second track. Awesome mixtape. Even Butch Walker’s Mixtape is on there too.

Track listing:

01. Guy Ripley (intro)
02. Ludacris (interlude)
03. Fall Out Boy – ALPHAdog and OMEGAlomaniac (demo)
04. Fall Out Boy – Lake Effect Kid (demo)
05. Fall Out Boy – I Don’t Care (27) (featuring Clinton Sparks & Seth Green) (interlude) (demo/snippet)
06. Fall Out Boy – Catch Me if You Can/Proclamation of Emaciation (featuring Travis from Gym Class Heroes) (demo mashup)
07. The Cab – Bounce (snippet)
08. Tyga – First Timers (featuring Evan from the Black List Club)
09. Panic at the Disco – Northern Downpour (snippet)
10. The Paul Revere Jumpsuit Apparatus – Nearly Witches (demo)
11. Cobra Starship – I Kissed a Boy
12. The Academy Is…– Automatic Eyes – Suave Suarez remix (featuring Tyga)
13. Hey Monday – Homecoming (snippet)
14. The Cab – Take My Hand – Machine Shop Production (featuring Cassadee from Hey Monday)
15. Tyga – California Girls (demo)
16. Gym Class Heroes – Cookie Jar (snippet)
17. A Rocket to the Moon – Oh, Dakota (acoustic demo)
18. Four Year Strong – Bada Bing! Wit a Pipe!
19. Text Fall Out Boy: FOB to 66937 (interlude – signup and instant betterment)
20. The Academy Is…– About a Girl (snippet)
21. The Hush Sound – We Believe in (Barack Obama)
22. The Hush Sound (interlude)
23. Butch Walker – Mixtape (snippet)
24. Cobra Starship (interlude)
25. Fall Out Boy – America’s Sweethearts (demo/snippet)
26. Clinton Sparks & Pete Wentz (outro)

Go download it! Can easily be found online.

Went for PlayMAX today, Yao Qi, Yuan Song were in my group with Izzy and Jia Rong. Jayne and Bong were supposed to go but Jayne had stuff on and Bong was/is sick =( Spent all our time at SmartMAX. Lol. I’m really not sure whether JR had fun (sure didn’t seem so) but Izzy said she had a nice time =) After everything, we went in search of earphones but they didn’t have the Crossroads $69.90 ones, so we tried on some other ones, including a $99 that was really good. Decided to wait till the stock comes so I can get either that or the $99 without regrets. Same reason why I didn’t get another $99 Sennheiser pair at the PC Show (yes, JR, Izzy and I went there and squeezed with everyone).

Went back to Raffles City and searched Sembawang, That CD Shop for The E.N.D. Deluxe Edition by Black Eyed Peas to no avail. The normal edition was selling at $24.95 at That CD Shop, and I headed to Gramophone and Capitol Centre to get it. And yes! They had the deluxe edition for $18.90. How awesome! I got Mika’s Parc Des Princes DVD as well, since I’ve been wanting it for a long time. Got it because I decided not to get Panic’s latest live album and I wasn’t getting the earphones. Well now I will have stuff to watch when I finally watch finish the Big Bang Theory (which I believe I will within these few days).

The Big Bang Theory is my latest obsession (besides AQUA and FOB’s mixtape). Absolutely crazy awesome show! First time I’m able to keep laughing on and on throughout the show, even that doesn’t happen with Friends. Its hilarious! I love the character Sheldon! There’s quite a lot of development/change in Sheldon and Leonard from the first season to the second. Sheldon was more normal in S1 and becomes way more neurotic in S2, and Leonard becomes normal from S1 to S2. I discovered that when I watched S2 then S1. Lol.

Ok, long post. Off to watch the latest episodes of So You Think You Can Dance!

And, in case you’re bored, check this out!

The most vicious put-downs in music (worth a read):

http://www.nme.com/photos/the-most-vicious-put-downs-in-music/128135/1/1

Music’s Most Infamous Sackings:

http://www.nme.com/photos/-you-re-fired-music-s-most-infamous-sackings/128455/9/1