Paul Revere and the Raiders
ETA - As I was typing this a version of Rt 66 just came up on my playlist - Get your kicks…
Ah, thanks - ignorance fought.
That’s what I’ve heard also. As engineer_comp_geek posted, the song was inspired by what a blue collar guy was saying about some music videos in a store. And supposedly a Prince video came on and prompted the comments about “that little faggot”.
I think Sixx is trying to insert himself into the story. “Money for Nothing” was written in 1984. Motley Crue had been formed by that time but they were not a well known band. Their first major hit was “Smoking in the Boy’s Room” in 1985.
Possibly a little more accurately, to earn a living the blue collar workers had to install microwave ovens and custom kitchens; move refrigerators and color TV’s. While the yo yo’s played guitars on the MTV, getting money for nothing and chicks for free.
Great song, and Brothers in Arms is a great album.
No way. They were known in Metal circles earlier and “Shout at the Devil” in 1983 was their first “big” album, even if it wasn’t their biggest. Googling shows it went to #12 on Billboard album charts.
That’s right. Shout at the Devil was absolutely Mötley Crüe’s first hit album. According to the chart here it was #17 in the U.S. and #12 in the U.K., in 1983. And I remember videos for the songs “Shout at the Devil” and “Looks That Kill”, at the very least.
I know. I need some new kind of kick.
No, the “little faggot” was definitely not Mark Knopfler. They were reacting to what they were seeing on MTV playing in the store, not to him. Besides, he didn’t do the glam thing. At all.
Funny, because I think it was the first CD I bought. I know it was the first CD I heard, knowingly anyway. I remember a friend of the family saying “hey, look at this cool new music thing” and playing something from it. I don’t remember which track, though. Not surprising, because it was one of the first major albums that was digitally recorded.
I also remember my dad saying that these newfangled CDs would never last, and thought I was being stupid by buying them. After all, something better was coming out very soon–DATs. (Digital Audio Tape) He was a smart guy, but biffed that one for sure.
Heh. I remember my then-6-year-old sister seeing a photo of Shout at the Devil-era Mötley Crüe in the issue of Hit Parader I was reading, and refusing to believe me when I told her they were men.
The Aerosmith song “Dude Looks Like A Lady” was inspired by Vince Neil.
What does money bring us beyond the obvious of being able to buy food, shelter and ‘basics’?And even for that it “ain’t working”. It just brings us uniformity of colour TVs and free chicks of nature of buy one get one free. We’ve got to move away from the rat race of consumerdom. . . A version of the song , incidentally, that I just listened to, unless I heard wrong , substituted the refrain I want one for “how long now? “ …The song also says: ‘well, ofcourse you could escape from this stupid being a cog in a machine working by becoming the millionaire propelling it, but even here, you’re gonna find yourself in another straight jacket of being envied rather than envying. Concluding then, the song says the capitalist system or the state capitalist system if you’re in China, “ain’t working”, is bringing us nothing worth having except envy and endless wars.
songs about deadening conformity and monotony of political systems in the world
Yes . The song can be understood in more than one meaning simultaneously . Viz “That ain’t working”
If you’re referring to “Kicks” by Paul Revere and the Raiders, then no. It’s blatantly a song about drug use and why it’s a bad thing.
99.9% sure Brothers In Arms was the first million-selling CD, fwiw. (It’s worth at least a zombie reply.)
True, according to Guinness World Records.
So kicks for free is a mondegreen and the real lyric is chicks for free? Ignorance fought.
Freshman year, apparently because “college”, the two guys in the room under me would crank up their new stereo every afternoon and play “Money for Nothing”, on repeat, as loud as the speaker would go. I responded by getting larger speakers.
It says something for the song that I still like it.
I hope you’re able to remember the dialog, and can let us have it. Was it something like:
“Those girls are ugly.”
“They’re not ugly, and they’re men.”
“Nuh-uh”
“Uh-huh”
“Mommmm…Rick is making fun of me again.”
Oh and yes, I know its a zombie thread, but Mister Rik: has posted recently.