I’m listening to Damn Yankees. Dunno how many people remember them, but the band had former members of Styx, Night Ranger, and also Ted Nugent. It’s very 80s hair band type rock.
At the moment I’m listening to Bad Reputation, which is quite overtly sexual in that 80s rock kind of way. No subtlety at all….
I confess, I do rather like 80s hair bands.
It also seems that pretty much none of their lyrics are appropriate for this blog (look, I do try to keep it pretty clean here, with only minimal sexual references, eh?) or just don’t really work out of the context of the screaming guitars and headbanging rhythms…
Well, this sort of works…. it’s better with the music, but it’s your basic hair band rock love ballad, where the guy is begrudgingly admitting that he’s in love…
You don’t have to love me baby
I don’t give a damn
You’ve got the time I’ve got the touch
And you know who I am
It’s simplified, I’m mystified
A case of hit and run
Ain’t no use no more abuse
You are my number one
And I’m in love
I’m mystified, baby
Yeah, I’m in love
I’m mystified, baby
yeah, yeah, yeah
You’re my kind of lover
You always keep me mystified
Though, I must admit, I got a giggle a bit later in the song with a lyric that is worthy of Spinal Tap:
Well I get out of the kitchen
When I can’t take the heat
What you’ve got cooking, hun
It’s good enough to eat
It’s a good album, though (it did go double platinum, after all), if you like 80s hair band rock. Which, of course, I do.
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