adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark Adolph) (09/28/84)
I have to nominate "Morning Train," or whatever it was called. You remeber the top 40 tune: "My baby takes the morning train, he works from 9 to 5... It was a song with no redeeming value whatsoever. -- Mark ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph
rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) (10/04/84)
> I have to nominate "Morning Train," or whatever it was called. You remeber > the top 40 tune: "My baby takes the morning train, he works from 9 to 5... > It was a song with no redeeming value whatsoever. > -- Mark ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph Of course it had a purpose!! It served to remind women of their proper place, waiting at home for their man, the breadwinner and head-of-household, to come home each night. One of the cornerstones of new conservative movement. Bring back those old values and those problems will go away. Whether any of this qualifies as "redeeming value" is questionable at best. (It would seem that much of the so-called adult so-called contemporary so-called music serves the above function.) -- If it doesn't change your life, it's not worth doing. Rich Rosen pyuxn!rlr
adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (10/06/84)
*** YOUR MESSAGE *** How could I forget the worst lyrics of all?! If you have had the misfortune of hearing anything by Blowfly, nothing more needs to be said. If you haven't, try to avoid it for your own good. And if anybody likes him, I have an album that I will almost PAY you to take (I didn't know what it was and it looked amusing in the store). An unrelated side note: I tried once again to dispose of the one Foreigner album that I own, received as a Christmas gift. Chimaera, a used record store in Palo Alto told me that they don't buy any Foreigner at all... -- Mark A. ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph
gregbo@houxm.UUCP (Greg Skinner) (10/06/84)
> From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) >> I have to nominate "Morning Train," or whatever it was called. You remeber >> the top 40 tune: "My baby takes the morning train, he works from 9 to 5... >> It was a song with no redeeming value whatsoever. >> -- Mark ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph > Of course it had a purpose!! It served to remind women of their proper place, > waiting at home for their man, the breadwinner and head-of-household, to come > home each night. One of the cornerstones of new conservative movement. Bring > back those old values and those problems will go away. Sheena Easton had an answer to her own song, "Modern Girl", which was just about the opposite of "Morning Train". In this case, the girl is independent and doesn't even need a man. (I liked it when the guy asked if he could come over and she said she'd just be fine watching TV.) ... she don't fill her world with no single man, but she's gettin' by doin' what she can, she is free to be what she wants to be, all she wants to be is a modern girl ... -- Hug me till you drug me, honey! Greg Skinner (gregbo) {allegra,cbosgd,harvard,ihnp4}!houxm!gregbo
myers@uwvax.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (10/09/84)
> > I have to nominate "Morning Train," or whatever it was called. You remeber > the top 40 tune: "My baby takes the morning train, he works from 9 to 5... > It was a song with no redeeming value whatsoever. > > -- Mark > ...uw-beaver!ssc-vax!adolph You know, I've been following this discussion knowing that someone would surely point out the song whose lyrics I hated the most. Didn't know myself until Mark's submission, but whatever-it-is is definitely it... Jeff myers@uwvax
hardie@sask.UUCP (Peter Hardie) (10/14/84)
Re: "my baby takes the morning train etc...." I gotta agree it has to be one of the worst songs ever. The British comedy program "Not the Nine o'Clock News" did a lovely sendup of the song with a woman singing it to her husband as he arrives home from work ... My baby takes the morning train .. - NO I DON'T .. I take the bus. He works from nine 'til five and then ... - 8:30 to 4:30 !!! etc.etc until the sketch ends with him strangling her.