Gleaming Spires' "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?" C/D

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I really hate this song. It always reminds me about how they played it 20 times in The Last American Virgin.

Here it is if you never heard it (I hardly doubt that)

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2O7NDJNN70P5S10EYRB07NOYVL

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

the Last American Virgin is such a weird movie.

I love this song, but not as much as the other Last American Virgin staple "I Know What Boys Like".

― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 18 July 2005 23:27 (twenty years ago)

I can't listen to "I Will Follow" anymore because of TLAV

Everytime I hear it I think of the abortion scene.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Monday, 18 July 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

totally unbelievably CLASSIC, one of those satire-whose-audience-misses-the-point moments of cultural greatness: "the hot, hot, super-special real sex girls"

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

They wer Spark's backing band circa Angst in Your Pants, so they get Classic for that alone.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

i mainly remember this song from the party scene in revenge of the nerds

― booboo nuts, Tuesday, 19 July 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

I think it would be better if The Birthday Party covered it.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

The Birthday Party could cover (and improve) almost anything.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

but it'd be better if the fall covered it.

― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Tuesday, 19 July 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

It was also on the "Revenge of the Nerds" soundtrack. So: Classic!!!

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Monday, 19 September 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

New Wave re-issue label Futurismo put out the "Songs of the Spires" LP. I bought it on a whim having loved their live Devo thing.
It's great! "Sex Girls" is a bit of a novelty track even on the album - the rest of the songs are darker and much more melodically rich.
Really underappreciated album it seems.

― Your Ribs are My Ladder, Friday, 27 March 2015 00:27 (ten years ago)

"SEX! SEX! SEX! SEX!"

I always thought the song was "Are You Ready for the Sex, Girls?" With the comma. As in, the singer is asking a group of girls if they're ready for the sex.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 March 2015 16:10 (ten years ago)

One of the best songs ever, obvs.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 27 March 2015 16:11 (ten years ago)

There's a palpable menace to the sex girls.

They've got time on their hands, they've got skin like seals
Bikinis gleaming in the morning light
You might lose your life
There's that knock on your door and they're there in your house
If you can't talk love you better get out
There's that knock on your door they have come back again
If you can't talk love you'd better pretend
There's that knock on your door, now you just gotta learn
Don't whine about love, every boy gets a turn
No one is ready for the sex girls!

― You and your damn elves, I'm sick of it! (Sanpaku), Friday, 27 March 2015 16:30 (ten years ago)

The video is also brilliant and disturbing.

― Three Word Username, Friday, 27 March 2015 18:05 (ten years ago)

one year passes...

lol I had no idea about the Sparks connection

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 December 2016 18:32 (nine years ago)

seven years pass...

best song of all time

― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:39 (one year ago)

i love the spires so much

― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 5 December 2024 18:39 (one year ago)

i have never heard of "are you ready for the sex girls" before, and i am watching the video now

this video is _extremely_ 2024

it even is uploaded in a crappy vhs encode, the sort you'd have to put a fancy filter on to emulate now

the aesthetic is also _tremendously_ sparks

i have not seen _revenge of the nerds_

i _am_ the revenge of the nerds

i am also clearly, unambiguously, one of the sex girls gleaming spires sing about

i take off my own clothes
i can talk about love
i know where it goes
i am a woman without any faults

i am a sad, sad, oh, sad lonely girl
i have time on my hands
i get too romantic
i am kinda frantic
i stay quiet as a mouse

you might lose your life
i go crazy in the bedroom, baby
and i might explode your mind

i am a sex girl
i am a fine, fine, super-special real sex girl
i am a best girl
i am a knees-showin', knees-showin', big-breast girl

are you ready for the sex girls?

no. no one is ready for the sex girls. i can tell you this because i have checked, thoroughly, and everybody is too depressed and/or traumatized to leave their home.

one day

one day one of you will be ready for the sex girls

and i

i am biding my time until that day

p.s. - i should note for the record that i am, in fact, asexual. in no way does this preclude me from being a sex girl, however. i've read the lyrics. it doesn't say _anywhere_ that the sex girls can't be asexual.

― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 6 December 2024 00:22 (one year ago)

Anyone can be a Sex Girl! And the video is fantastic agreed.

― The Whimsical Muse (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 6 December 2024 02:03 (one year ago)

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