Govs Reunion 2012

Music

Kobi and I are supposed to put together a musical act for our 25th reunion at The Governor's Academy (formerly Governor Dummer Academy). Here's a list of possible tunes we'll perform:

Music from our time at high school

(alphabetical by artist)

Depeche Mode, People Are People

"Why should it be you and I should get along so awfully?"

Depeche Mode, Sometimes

Downtime song.

Echo and the Bunnymen, Lips Like Sugar

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.

Hall and Oates, One on One

Drum machine carries the beat.

Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill

Everybody else has covered it, why can't we?

Madonna

Queen of our pop

Michael Jackson

King of our pop

New Order, Blue Monday

Official dance club hit of our generation.

New Order, Every Little Counts

Essence of irony. Lonesome Tonight is another slow jam from NO.

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.

Sinéad O'Connor, Just Like U Said It Would B

Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants to Rule The World

Tears for Fears, Mad World

Tears for Fears, Pale Shelter

The Cure, In Between Days

Cheery, bet a lot of day-schoolers woke up to this on the way to Byfield.

The Cure, Just Like Heaven

Big hit at our college dance parties.

The Police, Every Breath You Take

What better breeding ground for casual stalkers than a boarding school? jk—not!

The Police, King of Pain

The Pretenders, Don't Get Me Wrong

Crossover between alternative types and mainstream listeners.

The Psychedelic Furs, Heartbreak Beat

The Smiths, Ask

"Shyness can stop you from performing the songs you'd like to."

The Smiths, How Soon Is Now?

Alt Anthem.

The Smiths, anything from The Queen Is Dead

U2, Pride (In the Name of Love)

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.

Violent Femmes, Kiss Off

Drowned in teen angst all over the place, pretty easy to play. "They'll hurt me bad, but they do it all the time." "I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record."

Violent Femmes, Please Please Please Don't Go

Other music

More bands with TGA/GDA sensitivity I would like covering include

• Aimee Mann
• Cocteau Twins
• The B52s
• Bob Marley
• Cake
• Coldplay
• The Flaming Lips
• Fleetwood Mac
• Garbage
• Joy Division
• Morrissey
• Natalie Merchant
• Neil Young
• No Doubt
• Pink Floyd
• Sade
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Smashing Pumpkins
• Weird Al Yankovic

Bands that don't fit that sensitivity—but who cares?—include

• Alicia Keys
• Aretha Franklin
• Björk
• Dinosaur Jr.
• Erasure
• James Brown
• Joni Mitchell
• King Missile
• Kraftwerk
• Lush
• The Muppets
• Prince
• Radiohead
• Stevie Wonder
• Tom Waits

kobi

• Bass
• Vocals

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.

Peter Gabriel

Sledgehammer

Red Rain$

Shock the Monkey*

Depeche Mode

Everything Counts$

Flies on the Windscreen*$

Till Tuesday

Voices Carry$

Human League

Don’t You Want Me*(Karaoke)

Violent Femmes

Please Please Please Do not Go

Gone Daddy Gone

Hall & Oates

Kiss on my List

Rich Girl*

One on One

Sade

Sweedish Baboon

Smooth Operator*

Eurythmics

Sweet Dreams

Love is a stranger*$$

Cure

Love Cats*$

Head on the Door

Police

Wrapped around your finger*

Eddie Grant

Electric Avenue

Thompson Twins

Hold Me Now

U2

MLK*

Tears for Fears

Shout

Cars

Drive

Lionel Ritchie

Hello

Billy Idol

Dancing With mYself

Simple Minds

Don’t you Forget About me* (karaoke)

The Fixx

One thing leads to another

Saved by zero*

Prince

When U Were Mine$

When Doves Cry*$

Aha

Take on Me

Maybe even that silly Red Red Wine song...

sreeves

I wouldn't be ashamed to rock a 505, the Gov's 707 probably not still available. Here's what I can bring if necessary:

• V-Drums
• Electric bass + amp
• Electric guitar
• PA + 2 mics
• Prophet 2000 sampling keyboard
• Ensoniq synth