Last Saturday I decided to get myself a vegan sandwich after spending some money on an H&M sweater made in some indian sweat shop. Bad idea. the sandwich was alright but they played a song there which I really liked and I asked the girl behind the counter what it was, but she couldn't care less. I tried to remember a distinctive line to google it down, but once I got home I only remembered the word "wastecar". Hows that for short memory? It sounded like a singer/songwriter thing, male singer, deep voice. The song after that one was Cake covering Donna Summer what made me wonder if I really want to find out what I was so mesmerized of. Any ideas?
(First post by longtime lurker. back to lurk mode)
― egon krenz (slaytrack), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)
egon krenz? Is that egon krenz as in:
"Egon Krenz (b March 19th 1937) is a former German Communist politician, who briefly served as leader of East Germany in 1989 before Communism in East Germany collapsed.
Krenz was born in Kolberg in what is now Poland, and was resettled in Damgarten in 1944, when Germans were expelled from Poland following World War Two.
He joined the SED (East German Communist Party) in 1955. Throughout his career, Krenz held a number of senior posts in the Communist Party, joining the politburo in 1983.
Following popular protests against East Germany's Communist regime, long-serving leader Erich Honecker was forced to resign on October 18th 1989. On October 24th Krenz was drafted in as his replacement.
Krenz promised to introduce democratic reforms, but events soon spiralled out of control. He unintentionally presided over the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989, which was caused by a misunderstood press briefing by one of his ministers. This quickly led to a mass exodus and then the collapse of the Communist state.
He resigned as leader on December 7th 1989. In a desperate attempt to improve its image, the Communist party stripped him of his party membership in 1990.
In 1997, Krenz was sentenced to 6 1/2 years imprisonment, for the deaths of people who tried to cross the Berlin wall. He was released in 2003 after only serving three years of it.
To this day, Krenz is one of the few former Communist politicians who continues to defend the former East Germany."
No wonder you lurk!
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)
nope wastecar, probably isn't a word, still google didn't help.
yes that's me. but don't spread lies (He unintentionally presided over the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9th 1989, which was caused by a misunderstood press briefing by one of his ministers.) Günter Schabowski fucked that one up. I would have saved us into a binational state with the north koreans.
by the way, ist that you, kevin?
http://home.t-online.de/home/josoko/coyne.jpg
― egon krenz (slaytrack), Monday, 9 February 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)
My friend, it was 'Race Car', as in Cake's 'Rce Car Ya-Ya's'. Funnily enough, this song comes before 'I Will Survive' on the album 'Fashion Nugget', which is a bona fide Classic!
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 12 February 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)
'Race Car Ya-Ya's, that is.
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 12 February 2004 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)
The whole text goes like this, as far as I remember:
"The Land Of Race Car Ya'Ya's/ The land where you can't change lanes/
The land where large, fuzzy dice hang proudly like testicles from rear view mirrors"
― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 12 February 2004 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)