 All Of This And Nothing (1984) [ larger cover art ] |
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Caroline laughs, and it's raining all day
Loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place in the side of our lives
Where nothing is ever put straight
She turns herself 'round
And she smiles and she says
"This is it, that's the end of the joke"
And loses herself in her
Dreaming and sleep, and her
Lovers walk through in their coats
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
All of her lovers all
Talk of her notes and the
Flowers that they never sent
And wasn't she easy, and
Isn't she pretty in pink?
The one who insists he was the
First in the line is the
Last to remember her name
He's walking around in this
Dress that she wore
She is gone, but the
Joke's the same
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Caroline talks to you
Softly sometimes, she says,
"I love you" and "Too much"
She doesn't have anything
You want to steal
Well, nothing you can touch
She waves
She buttons your shirt
The traffic is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She give you her clothes
These cars collide
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Loves to be one of the girls
She lives in the place in the side of our lives
Where nothing is ever put straight
She turns herself 'round
And she smiles and she says
"This is it, that's the end of the joke"
And loses herself in her
Dreaming and sleep, and her
Lovers walk through in their coats
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
All of her lovers all
Talk of her notes and the
Flowers that they never sent
And wasn't she easy, and
Isn't she pretty in pink?
The one who insists he was the
First in the line is the
Last to remember her name
He's walking around in this
Dress that she wore
She is gone, but the
Joke's the same
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Caroline talks to you
Softly sometimes, she says,
"I love you" and "Too much"
She doesn't have anything
You want to steal
Well, nothing you can touch
She waves
She buttons your shirt
The traffic is waiting outside
She hands you this coat
She give you her clothes
These cars collide
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
Pretty in pink, isn't she?
| ch83575 | Posted: Apr 23, 2013 - 10:23 gypsyman wrote: When I hear this, I am 26 again! Yay! When I hear this, I am... 4 again? You guys are OLD!!! |
| gypsyman (just passing through....) | Posted: Jan 19, 2013 - 04:52 manonfortini wrote: I listen to this and I am 16 again!  When I hear this, I am 26 again! Yay! |
| johnjconn (chicago land) | Posted: Nov 17, 2012 - 11:39 mbalson wrote: Hmmm...that's the same last four songs in a row (just now played - more than a year and a half later). Are Bill and Rebecca phoning it in? Preset playlists? no, Bill stays at the studio 24/7 - 365 working. duh |
| mbalson | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 16:06 sandyclaws wrote: Holy smokes! Hmmm...that's the same last four songs in a row (just now played - more than a year and a half later). Are Bill and Rebecca phoning it in? Preset playlists?Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Thanks RP, for the late-afternoon pick-me-up on what has been a very tedious Monday at work! |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 14, 2012 - 16:04 NeuroGeek wrote: There are much, much better cuts off of the Pretty In Pink Soundtrack. This isn't the worst, but definitely not the best, either. They are not "much, much better" in my opinion, though there are some great tunes on that soundtrack. This recording (for which the film is named) is not the one which was later recorded for the movie soundtrack. To each his own, of course. |
| NeuroGeek (Just Way Out There) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:57 There are much, much better cuts off of the Pretty In Pink Soundtrack. This isn't the worst, but definitely not the best, either. |
| billymann | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:47 Like the first album best—I remember the first time I heard "India"like it was yesterday... |
| manonfortini (Québec, Canada) | Posted: Apr 10, 2012 - 12:39 I listen to this and I am 16 again! |
| df1489 (Lake Palestine, Tyler Tx) | Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 20:39 SinisterDexter wrote: Just happened to see the movie for the first time this weekend. Not groundbreaking, but a good portrayal of teen angst - Molly Ringwald's a joy to watch in just about any movie. It's the amazing ensamble cast that still blows me away...Jon Cryer sliding across the floor to Otis Redding, Annie Potts as a new wave diva remembering her beehive days and Harry Dean Stanton as the most honest dad, worts and all, you have ever seen. I still love this movie and this song captures the 80's perfectly. (of course, in my humble opinion) |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Mar 09, 2012 - 20:24 cool... love it... sigh... |
| SinisterDexter | Posted: Oct 03, 2011 - 08:37 Just happened to see the movie for the first time this weekend. Not groundbreaking, but a good portrayal of teen angst - Molly Ringwald's a joy to watch in just about any movie. |
| kcar | Posted: Sep 01, 2011 - 23:14 WayUpNorth wrote: I find it vaguely repulsive that anyone would think there is an association between the song and the movie ... I think most mothers in 1981 felt the same way once they listened to the lyrics. I loved the song but hated the movie (without seeing it, guilty as charged) for being so mainstream. This was the correct position for the hip and cool of those years. |
| The_Enemy (...is within) | Posted: May 30, 2011 - 12:28 Cynaera wrote: "Don't make me real. You wouldn't like me when I'm real." Nice quote! I like it. (I agree with your post, too, but the quote is brill) |
| Wilmshurst (My pineal gland) | Posted: May 30, 2011 - 12:25 9 -> 10 |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 08:45 I find it vaguely repulsive that anyone would think there is an association between the song and the movie ... |
| WayUpNorth (Windswept Exile) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 08:44 The song was released in 1981. John Hughes borrowed the title for his movie. |
| anabel | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 08:42 mandolin wrote: ...was the film named after this song or was the song written for the film... I was wondering the same thing; per wikipedia the song came first, Hughes took it as the title for his movie. |
| mandolin (...drifting...) | Posted: Mar 28, 2011 - 08:39 ...was the film named after this song or was this song written for the film?.. |
| Cynaera (South of Neanderthal) | Posted: Feb 24, 2011 - 21:52 I think it's the beat. It's a good beat. I love the Furs, and I loved all of those "Brat-Pack" movies, and the soundtracks. It was a pretty fun era. Of course, we're paying for that cotton-candy time now, with the economy in shambles, the government eating up our rights in ways so insidious we mostly don't know we've lost them until we get busted for doing/saying something that only yesterday was allowable. Color me rainbow. I will adore silly songs like this one, and "Don't Worry, Be Happy." If I don't cling to whimsical reminders of what the world used to be, I fear I'll go insane. And to horribly misquote The Incredible Hulk: "Don't make me real. You wouldn't like me when I'm real." |
| kcar | Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 15:34 ScopArch wrote: From a distance I thought this was Born to Run! From a Very Great distance. The tempos are the same, I think. Read your first journal entry, ScopArch. I hope things are picking up for you. |
| diannemck56 (Sacramento) | Posted: Jan 24, 2011 - 15:26 Love the Duck Man!!!  |
| JustJeff (Somewhere in Kansas) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 13:49 sandyclaws wrote: Holy smokes! Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Thanks RP, for the late-afternoon pick-me-up on what has been a very tedious Monday at work! This is why I love RP! |
| sandyclaws (On our way back home . . .) | Posted: Nov 22, 2010 - 13:48 Holy smokes! Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night Thanks RP, for the late-afternoon pick-me-up on what has been a very tedious Monday at work! |
| chadlymn (Apple Valley, MN) | Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 08:50 Into you like a train is another awesome song from this album!! LowPhreak wrote: One of the best albums to come out of the 80's. |
| chadlymn (Apple Valley, MN) | Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 08:49 Long live Duckie!!  ! |
| komainu (Iowa City, IA) | Posted: Jun 16, 2010 - 08:49 One of those songs that is somehow better than it should be.  |
| sirdroseph (Tokyo) | Posted: May 15, 2010 - 14:07 Killer tune!  |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 19:40 Brilliant song - then and now. |
| crockydile (Outer Spiral Arm, Milky Way) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 19:30 A subpar song from an a pretty good band. I had one of their albums, so they must have had some merit.  Can't tell it from this song. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Apr 13, 2010 - 19:27 This is another fantastic song with so many good memories... love it... |
| dogpound (the island on which I belong) | Posted: Feb 09, 2010 - 15:40 wow. this brings me right back to HS. I"m not sure that's a good thing but I love this song. |
| Dillinquent | Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 04:55 Good to hear the original version again |
| LowPhreak (United States of Duplicitous Tools) | Posted: Jan 09, 2010 - 04:55 One of the best albums to come out of the 80's. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 09:48 "Pretty in Pink is a 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a 'Brat Pack' movie. The title of the film comes from the song of the same name by British music group The Psychedelic Furs." |
| WayUpNorth (Edge of Nowhere) | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 09:23 thewiseking wrote: a brilliant, original pop band. Oh so eloquently stated ... I wore this record out. They still sound good!a perfect blend of light and darkness |
| choiceimage (Colorado thin air) | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 16:23 horstman wrote: And she does look oh so pretty in pink. Not |
| ScopArch (Berlin, Baby) | Posted: Mar 29, 2009 - 07:49 From a distance I thought this was Born to Run! |
| Lyndra_Ski | Posted: Feb 25, 2009 - 19:18 Okay, okay, it's overplayed, but I still gotta give it a 9. Captures the best of the early '80's feel. |
| teapot (in orbit) | Posted: Dec 24, 2008 - 14:41 I like this version more than the soundtrack version. It's grittier. |
| Kdubba (Some-where out-there) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 11:25 siandbeth wrote: And we hadn't even had a glimmer of what the VP's son was going to do to us 20 years later. Paradise. so true.....so true........... |
| thewiseking (New York, New York) | Posted: Oct 22, 2008 - 11:23 a brilliant, original pop band. a perfect blend of light and darkness |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 06:23 meanfish wrote: Ronald Reagan,Grenada,Nicaragua,Iran Contra,Ketchup as a vegetable,HIV,Market Crash, sheeeeeit what is there not to love about the 80's? At least this was a really good pop tune. A pop tune, maybe, but some pretty subversive lyrics. I lived/suffered through the 80s, curse them, and the music really divided sharply: one the one hand there was the amoral/apolitical yuppie-friendly tendency as exemplified by Roxy Music, Spandau Ballet, Human League and the like, and on the other there was the highly political (in the widest sense, including 'the personal is political') and satirical tendency with bands like The Specials, New Model Army, The Cure, and many others. That subversive strand was about the only decent thing to come out of the 80s, musically, and this song fits firmly into it. You can't imagine Ronald Reagan getting down to it... |
| Excelsior | Posted: Aug 20, 2008 - 06:19 rickhoran wrote: its a shame the movie had to ruin a perfectly good song. it's a shame the movie lead singer had to ruin a perfectly good song. fixed that for you. |
| badean | Posted: Jul 03, 2008 - 18:38 I hear a popular Iggy Pop riff in there somewhere... |
| aquadonia (Green Bay, WI) | Posted: May 17, 2008 - 15:35  |
| jubilantme (austin.) | Posted: May 17, 2008 - 15:34 this song, ah, this song. i was just watching this movie yesterday. |
| rickhoran (Eastern PA) | Posted: Mar 31, 2008 - 08:16 its a shame the movie had to ruin a perfectly good song. |
| siandbeth (Santa Cruz California) | Posted: Mar 31, 2008 - 08:15 meanfish wrote: Ronald Reagan,Grenada,Nicaragua,Iran Contra,Ketchup as a vegetable,HIV,Market Crash, sheeeeeit what is there not to love about the 80's?
At least this was a really good pop tune. And we hadn't even had a glimmer of what the VP's son was going to do to us 20 years later. Paradise. |
| stevo_b (Rock Ridge) | Posted: Mar 31, 2008 - 08:14 EssexTex wrote: This was bad then...and it's still bad now
No... |
| Ahnyer_Keester (Chicago Il) | Posted: Mar 31, 2008 - 08:14 Yet another "the music was better than the music" movie songs. :) |