Monday, April 3, 2017

Sparks "angst in my pants"

I learned everything I know about romance from the movie "Valley Girl".  Nicholas Cage was my spirit animal in 1984.  The sound track's centerpiece is Modern English's "I melt with you" and is in my opinion the greatest love song ever written, but that's another blog.  This #sparks album has two tracks in that movie.  I discovered this record over a decade later while in my late twenties. It encapsulates new wave music for me. Catchy synth - driven pop songs with lyrics informed by punk rock's self deprecating and crass sense of humor.  In the movie the song "angst in my pants" played during a valley dance party in which the party goers eat sushi and molly-ringwald-dance in a carpeted living room.  The setting was as alien to me then as much as now.  The other song in the movie: "eaten by the monster of love" plays during a jeans-tightening scene where a girl's mother tries to seduce her teen daughter's love interest.  A risqué concept then and taboo beyond belief now.  So yeah, that sequence and sing shoot straight to my id.  I imagine that if I make it to nursing home age while the nurses are sponge bathing my wrinkled nethers that song will be playing in my head. A fitting bookend to my sexual awareness.

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