Almanac: 80’s Prom Night
Aren’t you too cute in your puffed sleeves and tattered skirt? Let’s get out on the dance floor, and do the Molly Ringwald!
Almanac hosts an 80’s prom, and even if you’re rolling your eyes, and you never went to prom and yadda yadda, it doesn’t matter, cause we are doin’ this thing with style.
Dancing With Myself – Billy Idol
Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears
I Melt With You – Modern English
Our House – Madness
Enjoy the Silence – Depeche Mode
The Promise – When in Rome
Age of Consent – New Order
Head over Heels – Tears for Fears
Love is a Battlefield – Pat Benetar
(musical interludes are the remixed wordless versions of Human League songs)
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If I remember correctly, this whole thing was envisioned as a platform from which to play “Jesse’s Girl” which has somehow managed to not make the cut.
Thank you for this. Unlike you, these songs were at my prom. :p Each one is like a time capsule. I cried when you played EWTRTW and talked about cherishing the small moments. This song evokes in me my memories of the summers of 1985 and 1986 (the year I graduated). “I Melt With You” reminds me of the idealism I used to have about romance before all the callouses, pain, and years of disappointment. Head Over Heels reminds me of Susie Adamo, the first person I ever truly fell in love with. It’s funny when the Thompson Twins song came out, I’d never kissed a girl, never fallen in love, and I desperately wanted to be held and loved. There are parts of my teen years that I don’t miss. I don’t miss that sense of emptiness and confusion.
Fun stuff. Thanks for putting it together.