70s oldies: Nostalgia I can live with

[vanillafluffy]

I've got one of the digital music channels set to 70s rock...occasionally, I find myself singing along with something I haven't heard or thought of in 30 years. The amount of brain-space that's apparently retaining useless pop lyrics is truly scary

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[pwcorgigirl]

Ah, 70's music -- so much good, so much very bad. Week before last we watched the first half of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert," and I wish to goodness somebody had warned me that the karaoke scene that opens it is set to "Never Been to Me" because I had it stuck in my head for days. Until, that is, I got the eagerly awaited DVD of "Foul Play" from SwapADVD. Then I had the movie's theme song, Barry Mannilow's "Ready to Take a Chance Again," on auto-play for another week. The movie is one of my all-time favorites, but the decades since I'd seen it in the theater had erased that sappy song from my mind.

*Edited because I can't seem to keep track of what week we're in.

[vanillafluffy]

My mental jukebox obligingly supplied both tunes, thanks so much.

Ah, Foul Play. "Cops have the best dope." Burgess Meredith and a python named Esme. I haven't seen it in 20 years, but again, trivia retention---which still isn't as bad as water retention, IMO.

[pwcorgigirl]

Happy to share. :D

"She was one tough old mama" and the Scrabble game are two of the funniest things ever.

[vanillafluffy]

I was in NYC visiting Peter that summer, and the subway was plastered with posters for "Foul Play", "Heaven Can Wait" and god help us, "Grease". The latter being my least favorite of the three. I have nothing against nostalgia, but ugh! Too saccherine for my taste.

[chocolate_frapp]

"Never Been to Me" was the 80's. It was too shitty for the 70's. hell, the whole song is her harassing some random woman in the street whom she doesn't even know! (and what the HELL are "some things that a woman ain't supposed to see"? is there a secret man hand signal?!)