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The Bangles — Walk Like An Egyptian
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fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Dec 26, 2012 - 09:41
 
 bentonian wrote:
You know what song they sing at the NSA?

Walk Like an Encryption!
 
That's awful! {#Lol}

mhodak
(Raleigh, NC)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 21:41
 
Oh, no! Sounds like FM radio. Make it stop.



(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 21:41
 
 mandolin wrote:


...you never leave that room, do you?..
 


I have agoraphobia...  everybody in my hotel room loves this song...
 


AliGator
(The Bluegrass)
Posted: Nov 14, 2011 - 21:41
 
 zenhead wrote:
great segue from "history repeating." good on you, bill!
 


kurtster
(Back in Ohiya, for now ...)
Posted: Oct 14, 2011 - 08:26
 
Just plain fun to hear.

Silly at the highest level.

ferwoman
Posted: Oct 14, 2011 - 08:25
 
I prefer the Puppini Sister's version overall, find it a bit spicier in tone, but this was fun to hear this morning!

Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:54
 
 mandolin wrote:


...you never leave that room, do you?..
 
But he's made it his own, so the color schemes and accents are lovely. All the furniture can be easily moved to the walls to make space for dancing. {#Daisy}

AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:51
 
Man those eyes!!  Susanna had the sexist eyes in this video!  

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:49
 
 romeotuma wrote:
Everybody in my hotel room be dancing right now...  love it...
 

...you never leave that room, do you?..

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:47
 


Everybody in my hotel room be dancing right now...  love it...





Sweet_Virginia
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:46
 
 givendale wrote:
We rate it a 9.  Just danced around lounge room with a 2 year old and taught her to blow kisses like an Egyptian {#Dancingbanana}
 

Love it- 9 for me + .5 for the hair styles...

bentonian
(Longmont, CO)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:46
 
You know what song they sing at the NSA?

Walk Like an Encryption!

RickyBobby
(Oxford Mills, Ontario - We have a Wal-Mart you know)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:45
 
Friday beer drinking music!!! Love it...


zenhead
(Maine)
Posted: Aug 12, 2011 - 10:45
 
great segue from "history repeating." good on you, bill!

givendale
Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 02:12
 
We rate it a 9.  Just danced around lounge room with a 2 year old and taught her to blow kisses like an Egyptian {#Dancingbanana}

alph
(Honolulu)
Posted: Jul 12, 2011 - 02:01
 
I like toilets, but it's a personal preference.

 cosmiclint wrote:

Well where the fuck else would you expect to throw up in?
 


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 10:13
 
I have a version of this song with just bongos and voices.  They do an amazing job of it, too - I actually prefer it to this version.

"Walk like an addiction....."  {#Mrgreen}

Al_Koholic
(Exit 82, New Joisey)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 10:13
 
Wow!  Lots of haters out there.  A fun song-gets me singing along every time I hear it.

cosmiclint
(Vancouver BC)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 10:12
 
 rickhoran wrote:
i think i just threw up in my mouth.
 
Well where the fuck else would you expect to throw up in?


DrCyKosis
(~Galveston~)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 10:12
 
Love it!  Go ahead and play "Eternal Flame".  {#Yes}

jimbaca
(Albuquerque)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 10:12
 
Wow, did not see this coming.  Forgot to duck.  Oh well, I guess this could be described as one of my guilty pleasures.

casey1024
(Here and Now)
Posted: Jun 10, 2011 - 10:11
 
Unexpected.  Fun to hear.

drewd
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 20:15
 
 bindi wrote:
Rock stars just don't get any cuter than Sussana Hoffs was on this video - with that little girl voice - and those big lashes.

ohhhhhh. . . . .         {#Dancingbanana}
 

oh yeah ! Love it when she rolls her eyes from side to side in the video. Such a fun song. nothing wrong with a fun song now and then......

agkagk
(Ontario, Canada)
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 19:38
 
 floydcaveman wrote:
My favorite stupid song!
 
Agreed. Right up there with Tarzan Boy by Baltimora. Two stupid '80's pop songs that get me singing along every time.


(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: May 09, 2011 - 19:29
 


This song is soooo good for the ears...

 

floydcaveman
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 04:39
 
My favorite stupid song!

rickhoran
(Eastern PA)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 04:30
 
i think i just threw up in my mouth.

evansdad
(CT)
Posted: Apr 08, 2011 - 04:26
 
 rabbi_phil wrote:
Man o' man. I'm flexible, but seriously?!

 

Agree 100%...couldn't have said it better.

Kittee
(NC- Dreaming of the Mountains)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:56
 
What a classic. Talk about fun childhood memories.

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:50
 
 Rickvee wrote:
This is a bad tune. If you are going to play The Bangles, play "Going Down To Liverpool", "Dover Beach", or "Hero Takes A Fall" - great tunes from their 1st album. They turned ultra-cheesy after that unfortunately.
 
Different Light is anything but cheesy, but I agree with your, perhaps inadvertent, larger point: this was a great band that flamed out after two terrific albums and a good third. I'm saddened that one novelty song seems to be their legacy.


vit
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:47
 
First they played Blue Oyster Cult,
and I didn't speak because I Don't Fear the Reaper.

Then they played Nude by Talking Heads,
and I didn't speak because I get Nude sometimes.

Then they played Walk Like an Egyptian,
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

(apologies to Martin Niemöller)

bindi
(North Carolina)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:46
 
Rock stars just don't get any cuter than Sussana Hoffs was on this video - with that little girl voice - and those big lashes.

ohhhhhh. . . . .         {#Dancingbanana}

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:46
 
Spooky !  When I wasn't listening to the Stones, etc., when I was a freshman, I listened to these girls!   {#Notworthy}

DD rabbi_phil
(beach)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:45
 
Man o' man. I'm flexible, but seriously?!


Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:45
 
Walk like a prescription....   I love this song.  Always have. Always will.{#Dancingbanana_2}

MoheganLake
(Mohegan Lake, NY)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:43
 
Are you kidding me??????? oh, i guess is a foreign policy comment.

sbegf
(Manchester, Maryland)
Posted: Mar 07, 2011 - 16:43
 
Had to double check I chose the right itunes radio station...ha

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 17, 2011 - 07:26
 
 keller1 wrote:
Great tune.

You guys are a bunch of snobs.

 

No, not all of them, but I most certainly am.{#Wave}

keller1
(In A Gadda Da Vida, Baby)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 10:59
 
Great tune.

You guys are a bunch of snobs.


Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 09:35
 
 lester wrote:
Wait a minute . . . wasn't this song once popular?

RP posters teach me SO much about music. Based on my past reading of RPer opinions — for this song and others like it — I've learned that, if some piece of music had any history of popularity (particularly in the U.S.), it meant the quality of the music was low and the musical experience was disagreeable overall. Right? I mean, popular music is bad, right? And it's all the worse if people were to listen still.

So that leads me to the question: how does good work avoid falling into that awful trap of becoming popular? For example, every time out, performers are taking a terrible chance their audience may like what they hear. And then there's the dilemma for new releases: how are we to ever know, to ever realize, that the very recording liked the most is the one that'll eventually turn out to have contained the most distasteful music?

The safest course is to stop listening altogether — no chance of popularity then.
 
That is one of the great paradoxes of "popular" culture.  No band becomes so disdained (especially by "cool" folks), as a band which has attained recent and/or widespread "popularity" (read the song commentary about tunes by U2, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Coldplay, Arcade Fire, etc.).  There are certain "popular" acts which seem to still be held in high regard, but that is usually because their popularity was in the past, and nostalgia tells many that the past must always be better.  It's a very narrow wire one must walk upon, apparently - between achieving success in getting out one's message, and being perceived as selling one's soul to become "popular".  Maybe it's fueled by simple resentment.  In the case of this song: it was a fun, silly song performed by a group composed of attractive, young women: I guess it's pretty easy for many people to dismiss it. Personally, I liked this tune when it came out, and I still like to hear it.


sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 09:01
 
 lester wrote:
Wait a minute . . . wasn't this song once popular?

RP posters teach me SO much about music. Based on my past reading of RPer opinions — for this song and others like it — I've learned that, if some piece of music had any history of popularity (particularly in the U.S.), it meant the quality of the music was low and the musical experience was disagreeable overall. Right? I mean, popular music is bad, right? And it's all the worse if people were to listen still.

So that leads me to the question: how does good work avoid falling into that awful trap of becoming popular? For example, every time out, performers are taking a terrible chance their audience may like what they hear. And then there's the dilemma for new releases: how are we to ever know, to ever realize, that the very recording liked the most is the one that'll eventually turn out to have contained the most distasteful music?

The safest course is to stop listening altogether — no chance of popularity then.
 

Yes, you have learned well. For the most part that is a very good rule to go by. Popularity has degrees, if it is in the mainstream publics consciousness, i.e. if you ask any man or woman on the street if they have heard of the band and it is ubiquitous, then yes, absolutely it probably sucks.{#Yes}

scmerriam
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 09:00
 
Moronic lyrics, but a fabulous tune.

east_of_sweden
(Helsinki, Finland)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:59
 
Greetings from Cairo.. Very currenct piece of music..

blotto
(here, at the moment)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:59
 
I wonder if Mubarak is playing this right now and bopping around. Kind of eleviate some of the tension in his office.

shutter
(You can't get here from there)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:58
 
I always liked this one.  Still do.  No apologies! (and ditto on hotty Suzanna Hoffs - again, no apologies ;^) )


(former member)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:58
 
"All the cops in the donut shops say..."

sirdroseph
(Yes)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:58
 
Suzanne Hoffs is sooooo hot, it almost makes this song bearable to hear after 1,000,000,000,000,000 times, but not quite.

Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:58
 
Don't even want to hazard a guess as to how many times I made a fool of myself dancing to this song.  Whoot!


amoreena
(west whatnot)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:57
 
I can name that tune in four shakes....and then do the head bop.  Go Susannah!

fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Feb 04, 2011 - 08:57
 
Given current events, this is pretty damn topical if a bit stereotypical. Allez les Egyptiens! Vive la revolution! :)