You knew this day would come: Favorite GO-GOS tune

As ever, if there's any interest a) I'll know I'm not the only 40-something here and b) I'll slap together a poll eventually. (Did the Go-Gos even have 9 songs? Kidding!)

I gotta go with "Head Over Heels" for the fine Schroeder-style piano work. Still I wouldn't argue with anybody who wanted to push "We Got the Beat," "I'm A Sicilian" (yeah, yeah, I know, it's "Our Lips Are Sealed") or "Vacation."

For extra credit, who's your favorite Go-Go? I'm for Jane for her singing on the chorale from "Lips" and Charlotte otherwise for writing the best songs. Can you believe DU2 had gone 9 months without any Go-Gos threads? (43,000 DUers roll their eyes and in unison, say "Yes!")

See the people walking down the street
Fall in line just watching all their feet
They don't know where they wanna go
But they're walking in time

They got the beat
They got the beat
Yeah
They got the beat

See the kids just getting out of school
They can't wait to hang out and be cool
Hang around 'til quarter after twelve
That's when they fall in line

Kids got the beat
They got the beat
They got the beat
Yeah
Kids got the beat

Go-go music really makes us dance
Do the pony puts us in a trance
do the watusi just give us a chance
That's when we fall in line

We got the beat
We got the beat
We got the beat
Yeah
We got the beat

Everybody get on your feet
We know you can dance to the beat
Jumpin'-get down
Round and round and round

(oh, you mean The Go-Gos with Belinda Carlysle! :evilgrin: )

"We got the beat".

It'll be boss, kean, neat!


And OF COURSE, my favorite Go-Go is the divine Ms. Wiedlin.

I somehow missed that cut when it came out the first time, but I heard it on the Best of ? disc and it was pretty good. Really jungly. I like that a lot!

For years, actually until only recently, I always thought they were singing...."Alice the seal".....so imagine my shock at learning what they were really singing was...."Our lips are sealed".

I was flabbergasted, I tell ya.

:silly: huh?

but no one had much to say... I have the Best of disc... it is pretty good. Head Over Heels has that great piano break, right? I like Vacation, too. I am torn between Gina ( one of the best female r and r drummers) and Charlotte ( great writing.)

"Gina Schock" -- there are very few R&R names better than that (The Germs' Lorna Doom comes to mind).

Belinda was calling herself "Dottie Danger" for a while....

like the folks in the Cramps, Richard Hell, the Ramones ( well that is a little different I guess.) Darby Crash, that was the Germ's singer right? Boy, I had to reach way back in the memory bank for that one. Justin Sane of Antiflag ( the brother of a friend of mine) and his cronies are some of the "newer" punks carrying on that fine tradition.

I also like Lux Interior and Poison Ivy (Cramps, but you knew that).

But Lorna Doom is the best name ever. ;)

in a black Muslim temple... that had a bunch of punk gigs. Never figured that one out!

I like that one

reunited, saw them at the Orphium in Boston. Best tune IMHO...This town and Jane is the best.

They epitomized coolness for the early 80's pre-teen female crowd. Plus, since people have told me for about 17 years now that I look like Belinda (in the magenta jacket), I have to like them a little. :7

n/t

That said, the first Bangles record KICKS ASS!

But honestly, I think there is more to The Bangles than the GoGos

The Bangles sucked.

Michael Steele is and was HOT, but I hated the lead singer...
whatever her name was...

Also "This Town" and "Beatnik Beach."

My favorite Go-Go was Gina Schock.

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Whenever I hear Our Lips Are Sealed or Vacation, I crank the radio up and sing along. And I have to crank it up just to drown myself out - can't sing worth a damn. Belinda was my favourite

Gina Schock... love the way she was always counting as she drummed.

Their 2001 album "God Bless the Go-Gos" was great. It was like not a year had passed since their last album. Some really awesome stick-in-your-head tunes.

As for favorite song, I gotta go with "Vacation".