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<p>38.97.70.2: /* kobi */ list in response</p> <hr /> <div>==Music==<br /> Kobi and I are supposed to put together a musical act for our 25th reunion at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Governor%27s_Academy The Governor's Academy] (formerly Governor Dummer Academy). Here's a list of possible tunes we'll perform:<br /> ===Music from our time at high school===<br /> (alphabetical by artist)<br /> ;Depeche Mode, People Are People:&quot;Why should it be you and I should get along so awfully?&quot;<br /> ;Depeche Mode, Sometimes:Downtime song.<br /> ;Echo and the Bunnymen, Lips Like Sugar<br /> ;Eurythmics, Sweet Dreams Are Made of This:If WBCN wasn't rocking this on my alarm radio in Perkins freshman year, I don't know whether I'd make it through breakfast.<br /> ;Hall and Oates, One on One:Drum machine carries the beat.<br /> ;Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill:Everybody else has covered it, why can't we?<br /> ;Madonna:Queen of our pop<br /> ;Michael Jackson:King of our pop<br /> ;New Order, Blue Monday:Official dance club hit of our generation.<br /> ;New Order, Every Little Counts:Essence of irony. Lonesome Tonight is another slow jam from NO.<br /> ;Peter Gabriel, Don't Give Up:Denny Hannon '88 performed both sides of this duo; we won't make that mistake. Anything from So would go over well.<br /> ;Sinéad O'Connor, Just Like U Said It Would B<br /> ;Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants to Rule The World<br /> ;Tears for Fears, Mad World<br /> ;Tears for Fears, Pale Shelter<br /> ;The Cure, In Between Days:Cheery, bet a lot of day-schoolers woke up to this on the way to Byfield.<br /> ;The Cure, Just Like Heaven:Big hit at our college dance parties.<br /> ;The Police, Every Breath You Take:What better breeding ground for casual stalkers than a boarding school? jk—not!<br /> ;The Police, King of Pain<br /> ;The Pretenders, Don't Get Me Wrong:Crossover between alternative types and mainstream listeners.<br /> ;The Psychedelic Furs, Heartbreak Beat<br /> ;The Smiths, Ask:&quot;Shyness can stop you from performing the songs you'd like to.&quot;<br /> ;The Smiths, How Soon Is Now?:Alt Anthem.<br /> ;The Smiths, anything from The Queen Is Dead<br /> ;U2, Pride (In the Name of Love)<br /> ;U2, With or Without You:Mr. Robb performed this with a student band. Just one incident from a long list of embarrassing fraternization with the enemy.<br /> ;Violent Femmes, Kiss Off:Drowned in teen angst all over the place, pretty easy to play. &quot;They'll hurt me bad, but they do it all the time.&quot; &quot;I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record.&quot;<br /> ;Violent Femmes, Please Please Please Don't Go<br /> <br /> ===Other music===<br /> More bands with TGA/GDA sensitivity I would like covering include<br /> *Aimee Mann<br /> *Cocteau Twins<br /> *The B52s<br /> *Bob Marley<br /> *Cake<br /> *Coldplay<br /> *The Flaming Lips<br /> *Fleetwood Mac<br /> *Garbage<br /> *Joy Division<br /> *Morrissey<br /> *Natalie Merchant<br /> *Neil Young<br /> *No Doubt<br /> *Pink Floyd<br /> *Sade<br /> *Siouxsie and the Banshees<br /> *Smashing Pumpkins<br /> *Weird Al Yankovic<br /> <br /> Bands that don't fit that sensitivity—but who cares?—include<br /> *Alicia Keys<br /> *Aretha Franklin<br /> *Björk<br /> *Dinosaur Jr.<br /> *Erasure<br /> *James Brown<br /> *Joni Mitchell<br /> *King Missile<br /> *Kraftwerk<br /> *Lush<br /> *The Muppets<br /> *Prince<br /> *Radiohead<br /> *Stevie Wonder<br /> *Tom Waits<br /> <br /> ===Musicians and Instruments===<br /> ===kobi===<br /> *Acoustic guitar<br /> Actually, I play bass. And I will sing, naturally, cause I don't think you do??? Don't remember. <br /> <br /> So. I thought up the following list, there are a few overlaps with your list, Cure, Depeche Mode, Prince, but also some pop music, cause it is so recognizable and hysterical. I have tried to pick songs that were do-able on a synth with drum capacity because if I am singing, I could do without playing anything at all, and besides that's what the 80s was all about. Let me know what you think. I'd be happy to do just a couple. After all, it's not like they HIRED us or anything... I put an asterisk by ones I really like.<br /> <br /> Peter Gabriel<br /> • Sledgehammer<br /> • Red Rain<br /> • Shock the Monkey*/<br /> Depeche Mode<br /> • Everything Counts<br /> • Flies on the Windscreen*/<br /> Till Tuesday - Voices Carry/<br /> Human League - Don’t You Want Me*/<br /> Violent Femmes<br /> • Please Please Please Don't Go<br /> • Gone Daddy Gone/<br /> Hall &amp; Oates<br /> • Kiss on my List<br /> • Rich Girl*<br /> • One on One/<br /> Sade <br /> • Sweedish Baboon<br /> • Smooth Operator*/<br /> Eurythmics<br /> • Sweet Dreams<br /> • Love is a stranger*/<br /> Cure<br /> • Love Cats*<br /> • Head on the Door/<br /> Police - Wrapped around your finger*/<br /> Eddie Grant - Electric Avenue/<br /> Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now/ <br /> U2 - MLK*/<br /> Tears for Fears - Shout/ <br /> Cars - Drive/<br /> Lionel Ritchie - Hello/<br /> Billy Idol - Dancing With mYself/<br /> Simple Minds - Don’t you Forget About me*/<br /> The Fixx<br /> • One thing leads to another<br /> • Saved by zero*/<br /> Prince<br /> • When U Were Mine<br /> • When Doves Cry*/<br /> Aha – Take on Me/<br /> Maybe even that silly Red Red Wine song...<br /> <br /> ===sreeves===<br /> I wouldn't be ashamed to rock a 505, the Gov's 707 probably not still available.<br /> Here's what I can bring if necessary:<br /> *V-Drums<br /> *Electric bass + amp<br /> *Electric guitar<br /> *PA + 2 mics<br /> *Prophet 2000 sampling keyboard<br /> *Ensoniq synth<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Music]]</div>

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