Flesh for Lulu, I Go Crazy

Speaking of Iron & Wine’s cover of New Order’s Love Vigilantes with a friend, it became obvious that everyone is already hip to the original.  I described it as a John Hughes-flick tune, which led to a guessing game of which flick it was, which lead to checking out the Some Kind of Wonderful soundtrack, which led to being reintroduced to Flesh for Lulu’s I Go Crazy. Man, I LOVED that song!  My SKoW soundtrack was a casualty of my early music collection being almost exclusively on cassette.  It kills me.  My formidable years of music fanaticism archived on such a fragile format.   Without that tape in my life and on my iPod over the years, I forgot the song existed.

It’s hard to go back and enjoy some of the songs that shaped the soundtrack of my life in the late 80′ and early 90′s.  20 years later, some New Wave sounds anything but fresh, but I’m still digging this.

Want more Flesh for Lulu?  So did I back then, and picked up their tape Long Live the New Flesh (another casualty of iron oxidation on ribbons of plastic).  Can’t remember much of that album except for Postcards from Paradise.  It’s no I Go Crazy (which I’m declaring another must for any new mix-tape CD), but it ain’t bad.  Not sure I can say the same about that hair. Wow man…  Wow.  Maybe you shouldn’t look.  Just listen.

Like you, I can’t hear the name “Lulu” without thinking of Lulu’s “To Sir With Love,” especially as covered by 10,000 maniacs and Michael Stipe.  There’s one that never gets old.  Right?[audio:http://www.adamjoe.com/Audio/tosirwithlove.mp3]Right.