Yes! I wish I could blast this right now but I'm at work. I still have the 45 of this that I bought as a kid and still play it every once in a while.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Kansas ? Why Kansas???
 

Takes me back to memories of my freshman year in college.  We pledges made new lyrics for this song and sung them while working during hell week.

This song came out in 1979!

Back in the day, Vin Scelsa - WNEW in New York - played this song in a set which included Steve Forbert's "The Oil Song" and NRBQ's "Get That Gasoline".   I don't exactly remember the contemporaneous events that prompted this set, but I imagine that the price of gasoline was getting way out of hand - piercing the $1.00 per gallon mark.

 Patti wrote: 
Yes, there was great music in the '80s.  This is a good tune - even if it seems a little silly by today's standards.  By the way, most of the hairstyles and clothes of the 1960s and '70s were pretty silly as well, but no one here seems to want to admit or remember that.
 

Love this song. I still have it on 45 from when it came out.

Ah - the '80's.  Bad hair, bad clothes, but great music all around.  I fell in love with electronic music then, along with my late husband, and continue to this day as I listen with my daugher. 

I remember listening to this as a kid.  I always turned it up as loud as I could stand it.

How can you tell Monopoly is an old game?
There's a luxury tax and rich people go to jail.  -C&L 

I heard that Trent Reznor cites Gary Numan as an influence, and that Gary Numan cite's Trent as an influence, this is interesting isn't it? umm yes. Am I being a bore? Yes, yes I am. I'll shutup now. Oh look it's the 'pickups. playing Growing Old is Getting Old how appropriate.....

 redstorm wrote: 
nothing guilty about it, it's just great

Cheesy?

Seriously - this song will last the ages ... how many snyth bands took birth after hearing Gary and the Tubeway Army. I can clearly remember hearing him for the first time from an LP my brother brought back from the UK to our little town in isolated British Columbia where all we heard on AM radio was "Clap for the Wolfman", "Snow Bird" and "Wreck of the Edmund's Fitzgerald".

This music is timeless to me... will always remember pulling out the album - dropping the Nad needle on it and cranking up the Sansui's way up for this ... 

There is a great rendition of this on YouTube with Nine Inch Nails with Gary ... simply amazing live performance actually :) 

love it! this is sooooo silly. soooo absolute nonsense and so absolut 100% eighties. purepurepurepure fun, nothing more, nothing less

Ho Hum

 iggam wrote: 
That's hilarious!

For some reason, I always thought this was Devo.

This song probably drives me nuts more than any other song I've heard on here.  I suppose it had it's place in it's time and all, but in this case I really could give a f*ck.  Just repititive and annoying.

 Droidac wrote: 
I'd say it speaks to collective nostalgia for the early teen years of the reviewers. Upon reflection, my assessment of this tune only decreases my tolerance for it. Ratings alone do not define quality, probably in everyone's opinions, based on specific examples of dreck and crap that is elevated by pools of others.

If this came out today, you'd just call it Interpol

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
If only cars were the same!  See how far we've come........unrateable

 On_The_Beach wrote: 
I don't think so, 'cheesy', disposable, are you sure? I don't think you have you really thought about it have you, eh? come on admit it, you know I'm right don't you, deep down, come on, what do you think?, go on, what ga recon eh?

'79-'80 what a year.  This was a pioneering track and still has a unique quality that is instantly identifiable.

 jools wrote: 
Stuff I listened to when I was in my teens: great the, Memory Lane now.