#88 lines about 44 women

[whatsthesound]

The Nails, “88 Lines About 44 Women” (Original Version, 1981)

TIL of this version of the song, recorded for an EP three years before the familiar one, as detailed by The Vinyl Villain.

[tmbgareok]

I read today on TMBW that Wall of Voodoo's 1982 hit, Mexican Radio is sometimes incorrectly attributed to tmbg and on that note, what are your thoughts on the aforementioned band?

JF: I knew Fishheads and a song called 88 Lines about 44 Women were misattributed to TMBG on the file sharing app Napster, and that echo lasted into Limewire, but had not heard about Mexican Radio (which I thought it was an interesting, original sounding track, and very catchy)

[bestsynthpop]

Synthpop Bracket 1: Round 1 matchups

Thomas Dolby: Europa and the Pirate Twins vs. Howard Jones: What Is Love?

M: Pop Muzik vs. Missing Persons: Destination Unknown

Sparks: Cool Places vs. Spandau Ballet: To Cut A Long Story Short

Company B: Fascinated vs. Soft Cell: Tainted Love

The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star vs. Prince: Raspberry Beret

Magazine 60: Don Quichotte vs. Visage: Fade to Grey

Erasure: Oh L'Amour vs. Giorgio Moroder: Chase

Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy vs. Peter Gabriel: Shock the Monkey

Sparks: Number One Song In Heaven vs. Strawberry Switchblade: Michael Who Walks By Night

Camouflage: The Great Commandment vs. The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination

Tubeway Army: Are Friends Electric vs. a-ha: Take On Me

Kate Bush: Running Up That Hill vs. Ministry: Every Day is Halloween

Laurie Anderson: O Superman vs. Shriekback: Nemesis

ABC: The Look of Love vs. Pet Shop Boys: It's a Sin

The Human League: Don't You Want Me vs. Herbie Hancock: Rockit

Heaven 17: (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang vs. Newcleus: Jam On It

Falco: Der Kommissar vs. Til Tuesday: Voices Carry

New Order: Blue Monday vs. Electronic: Getting Away With It

Debbie Deb: When I Hear Music vs. Sandra: Maria Magdalena

Men Without Hats: Safety Dance vs. Ultravox: Vienna

Baltimora: Tarzan Boy vs. The Nails: 88 Lines About 44 Women

Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me With Science vs. Tom Tom Club: Genius of Love

Book of Love: Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls vs. Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls

Siouxsie and the Banshees: Cities In Dust vs. Howard Jones: New Song

Fad Gadget: Collapsing New People vs. Jun Togawa: Suki Suki Daisuki

Exposé: Point of No Return vs. Sly Fox: Let's Go All the Way

New Order: Bizarre Love Triange vs. Bananarama: Cruel Summer

Devo: Girl U Want vs. Bronski Beat: Hit that Perfect Beat

Erasure: A Little Respect vs. Talking Heads: Burning Down the House

Anything Box: Living in Oblivion vs. David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes

Peter Schilling: Major Tom vs. The The: Infected

Devo: Whip It vs. The B-52s: Rock Lobster

[jungleindierock]

Time Machine - 2024 - No. 2

The second Time Machine playlist of 2024, numbers 3,4 and 5 on the way very soon. 40 tracks again, as it makes the playlist not too long or too short, perfect number of tunes. The whole playlist only lasts two hours 15 minutes.

Enjoy it and share it, you might find some old bands/artists you like and want to explore their back catalogues!!

You can find previous Time Machines and more here on the Spotify

Tracklist

Foals - Two Steps, Twice

Cattle & Cane - Infant Hercules

Headgirl (Motorhead & Girlschool) - Please Don't Touch

Z.Z. Hill - Baby I'm Sorry

Courteeners - Not Nineteen Forever

Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone

Manners - Special Brew

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

The Doors - Roadhouse Blues

The Clash - Tommy Gun

T. Rex - Jeepster

Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark (OMD) - Red Frame/White Light (John Peel BBC Session Version)

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

U.K. Decay - Rising From The Dead

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter

David Bowie - Suffragette City

Lord Tanamo - I'm In The Mood For Love

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Iggy Pop - I'm Bored

The Damned - Alone Again Or

The Jam - That's Entertainment

Roxy Music - Virginia Plain

The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner (Alt Version)

The Fall - Victoria

Half Man Half Biscuit - Restless Legs

The Melodians - Sweet Sensation

The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want To Get Over You

The Shins - New Slang

Lou Reed - Vicious

Wire - Another The Letter

Mary Love - Dance Children Dance

Pylon - Crazy

Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - The Only Living Boy In New Cross

The Coral - Pass It On

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

Smog - Cold Blooded

Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven

[punk-chicken-radio]

the nails - 88 lines about 44 women

-ax and TOS

[ziezie13]

10 Songs | 10 People

I Got The Message - Men Without Hats

I Beg Your Pardon - Kon Kan

Boy - Book of Love

Destination Unknown - Missing Persons

88 Lines about 44 Women - The Nails

Wild Thing - Sister Carol

Crimson and Clover - Joan Jett

Sorrow - David Bowie

Me Myself I - Joan Armatrading

The Tide Is Turning - Roger Waters

Tagging @simply-sithel, @word-whimsy, @chubsthehamster, @magickingom, @nerdherderette, @desmothene, @aryastark-valarmorghulis, @hyperiius, @brethilaki, @disasterdemi if you wanna of course

Thanks to @everythingbutcoldfire for the tag

[designaday]

Ultimate Playlist: Women’s Names, T-Z

Ah, so many letters here at the end of the alphabet that just don’t get much use when it comes to naming women. I couldn’t find a worthy song for X—it’s the only letter missing in the playlist.

Dear Theodosia by Lin-Manuel Miranda Sung by Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr and Lin-Manuel Miranda playing Alexander Hamilton, the song presents two fathers welcoming their children into the world, declaring that they will fight to make it better for them. Of course, Hamilton’s son Philip dies in a duel defending his father’s honor, Theodosia is lost at sea during a hurricane, and Burr kills Hamilton. Lovely song, though.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Deep Blue Something This song is about a couple without much in common who both kind of like the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s (based on a book by the same name), which opens with the main character, Holly Golightly, eating her breakfast in front of the Tiffany & Co. flagship store in New York. Tiffany & Co. is a jewelry store founded by the jeweler Charles Lewis Tiffany. I’m still counting “Tiffany” as a woman’s name.

Sister Tilly by Natalie Merchant Merchant described this one as a love song or all the women in her mother’s generation. It’s both parts lament for their passing and celebration of their feminism and pride.

Uma Thurman by Fall Out Boy This song was inspired by empowered women like the characters Uma Thurman played in Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction. It samples the opening theme from The Munsters.

Valerie by Mark Ronson, sung by Amy Winehouse This song was originally written and recorded by The Zutons. It refers to Valerie Star, a makeup artist and friend of lead singer Dave McCabe. She was arrested for driving on a suspended license.

Valleri by The Monkees Don Kirshner, president and music supervisor of Screen Gems, asked Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart if they had any “girl’s-name” songs they could use for the Monkees TV show. They told him they did and proceeded to improvise Valleri on their way to his office.

Stuck in a Closet with Vanna White by “Weird Al” Yankovic Al sings to his doctor about the strange dreams he has every night, which all end up with him stuck in a closet with Vanna White, co-host of the game show Wheel of Fortune.

Meet Virginia by Train According to the band, Virginia is “real parts of real woman [sic] that make up a woman that I’ve always wanted to meet.”

Only the Good Die Young by Billy Joel Inspired by Billy Joel’s high school love interest, Virginia Callahan, the song created controversy when it was released, as the protagonist is determined to have sex with a Catholic girl. Religious groups tried to ban it, which of course caused it to shoot up the charts.

Wendy by The Beach Boys Wendy left me alone. Hurt so bad.

Be My Yoko Ono by Barenaked Ladies The singer compares his relationship with the girl he loves to the one between John Lennon and Yoko Ono. This song was the band’s first single, winning them CFNY-FM’s Discovery to Disc contest and enough money to record their first, full-length album.

Zoe Jane by Staind Aaron Lewis wrote this song as a tribute to his daughter, explaining how he feels about being on the road for so long and missing her growing up.

88 Lines About 44 Women by The Nails There’s no better song for the finale of this playlist. They don’t have any women’s names that start with X either.

There you have it. A playlist containing 164 songs and a runtime of 10 hours and 32 minutes.

[maximuswolf]

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women [New Wave]

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women [New Wave] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeymW6GTDeY Submitted April 18, 2024 at 10:51AM by DrClawizdead https://ift.tt/OM3YhqH via /r/Music

[thepringlesofblood]

ok i was subjected to "88 lines about 44 women" by nine inch nails against my will and i think it would be greatly improved if every second line was just "I was afraid of a girl like that" again.

there are several parodies, mostly 90s pop culture references, and some are ok, but i want to introduce this shitty yet weirdly catchy bit song to the modern meme community for people to just chop and screw it into pieces (e.g. mambo #5 but every girl is monica).

i don't know how to do the chopping and screwing myself. my computer, bless its soul, is not set up for this kind of thing. if anyone out there wants to, I set the idea free into the universe to be picked up or discarded.

[nerdery-and-murdery]

[nityarawal]

88 Lines about 44 Women

"88 Lines About 44 Women," @thenails Moodswing

https://youtu.be/9Iwspf5L1Qk?si=xpHG6KMiOnLYUlIq #SongOfTheNight2 #SOTN2 #88LinesAbout44Women #TheNails #Moodswing

[bestsynthpop]

Propaganda for Tarzan Boy: Iconic! ohwaohwaohwaohwaohwaohohwa

All the bracket 1 match-ups

[lonesome--hunter]

@whumpsical my ask sent before I finished but here's 2 lol

2:A song you like with a number in the title

I love kooky songs.

88 Lines About 44 Women - The Nails

[weedstoner]

its always so wild to hear this song on the radio lol