Oh no she di'nt!!!!!!
Oh yayssss, she did! (please say this in an exaggerated Morris Day accent!)
Yes people, it's one of the groups that played at my high school's Grad Nite at Disneyland back in 1987 when real bands used to play instead of DJ's....
The one...the only Jheri Curl-licious Ready for the World!!!!
And you will note that I did not choose the more popular, "Oh Sheila" or the more salacious, "Tonight" or "Deep Inside Your Love", all of which are songs that I also like. All of these fktastic songs came from their eponymous first album, "Ready for the World" which also had the gems, "Slide Over", "Ceramic Girl", "Human Toy" (see a pattern here?), "I'm the One Who Loves You", and "Out of Town Lover". Come to think of it, this was a pretty good album, I must say!!!
Click here to see the complete list in order and to hear musical snippets!
So, yeah, I did not choose "Oh Sheila".
I had to pick a song rife with barely disguised sexual innuendo as well as a vintage old school video that had some of the most craptastic special effects ever. Those effects, I'm sure, were quite the shiz back in the day. Very high tech. Ha ha.
The computer graphics in here are just as bad as the old guy in a robe demonstrating how to blow up the Death Star" graphics on "Star Wars - A New Hope, Episode IV" (that's really the FIRST movie for you non Star Wars geeks).
Ready for the World was so damn awesome! They had the Prince protege thing going on. It was the Minneapolis sound with the funky synthesizers a la The Time, Jesse Johnson (lead guitarist of The Time), and Andre Cymone (former bassist for Prince). This song also had R2-D2 like sounds!
"Digital Display" was a fun song to dance to back in the day, along with Shannon ("Let the Music Play"), Debbie Deb ("Lookout Weekend" and "When I Hear Music") and Trinere ("I'll Be All You'll Ever Need")! Ha ha. Anyways, it's has unintentionally hilarious lyrics (don't you just love the countdowns in here?) and a dated video with a fake "robotic woman" to boot!
Sample lyrics include:
"36, I always dreamed of your measurements
In neon lights
24, at Christmas baby maybe you can
light up my room and brighten up my nights
36..."
And here's the chorus:
"I've never had a girl before
with much of a figure
So excuse me if I start to play
with your Digital Display"
Oh my God, these lyrics are so innocently lecherous! Thank goodness the teachers didn't censor songs at the dances, otherwise we wouldn't have been dancing to the classic ode to grinding, Prince and Sheila E's duet, "Erotic City"!!!
For the record, the other bands that played during my Grad Nite were:
- Wang Chung (Ugh! "Everybody Wang Chung tonight!" Suckd)
- Bobby Brown(Yes, fresh out of New Edition and pre-drug addict and pre-Whitney Houston beating days)
- Glass Tiger (whatever happened to them? Oh well, who cares, they sucked ballz anyways)
- Nancy Martinez (who?)
- and get this, Oran "Juice" Jones("I Saw You...and him...walking in the rain!"!!!! )This last one I did not know. He wasn't on the brochure but I was checking on the web and he is listed as a performer!!!! I'll have to check my brochure again!
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