Definitions by I Saw U2 Live Twice

Mony Mony chant

That is a chant people sing between verses of the hit song from the 60s, "Mony Mony". Billy Idol covered the song and took it to #1 in 1987. The chant varies with geography.

I was in the Hard Rock Cafe in Montreal. Everybody was speaking French, I couldn't understand a word anybody was saying. Then, Billy Idol's version of Mony Mony was played by the DJ and within seconds the dance floor was packed. Billy sang "Here she comes down singing "Mony Mony" and the crowd sang the Canadian Mony Mony chant "Hey motherfucker, get laid, get fucked" in ENGLISH! Unbelievable.

Mony Mony chant by I Saw U2 Live Twice August 6, 2007

Roxette

an excellent rock/pop duo from Sweden that scored hits around the world in the late 80s to the mid 90s. They play a kind of sunny, playful, happy pop-rock that you just don't hear on the radio or see on the music video networks anymore.

Roxette scored many hits. 4 of them went to #1 in the U.S.A.. They were "She's Got the Look", "Listen to Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" (from the stupid movie "Pretty Woman"), and "Joyride" (catch that neat whistling). Other hits were the catchy "Dangerous", "Crash! Boom! Bang!", and "How Do You Do!".

Roxette by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 16, 2007

atomic punk 

1. someone who roams the city streets who has magical powers to get what he/she wants

2. a song from Van Halen's self-titled debut album that describes such a person. Check out Eddie Van Halen's really boss guitar work on that track.

3. a video game that was released in the early 90s. Similar in setup and play to the 80s game "Dig Dug".

1. I'm bad. I'm the atomic punk.

2. No one rules these streets at night but me!
Nobody! Bleaaaaaauuuggghhhh!
The atomic punk!

3. I went to the Flamingo arcade today and played "Atomic Punk".

atomic punk by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 16, 2007

Leann Rimes 

a corporate Nashville assembly-line teen product modeled up to appeal to the soccer mom crowd in the fucking PC 90s. She was geared up to have a "wholesome" goody-goody image to appeal to people who don't like their music too challenging. She was declared a teen prodigy when she covered the country classic "Blue". Right after that, several albums consisting of her covering other people's songs were released. She has destroyed good songs like "Purple Rain" by Prince, and predictably sang "Christian" ("You Light Up My Life") and "patriotic" songs (just in time - right after 9/11, imagine that! Cha-ching!). Around 2003 she released a teen crap dance album, it stunk. She records whatever is the heat of the moment. She is a manufactured star, indicative of what's wrong with popular music today.

On Thanksgiving Day 1997, my mom turns on the radio and Leann Rimes is wailing her version of "Unchained Melody" by the Righteous Brothers. Everyone in the whole fucking family is impressed and struck with awe at her extreme "talent", everyone, that is, except me.

Leann Rimes by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 16, 2007

Radiohead 

1. an overrated chump Britpop band that got great success and critical adulation in the fucking PC 90s and still gets it today. Singer Thom Yorke whines lyrics full of angst and painful references. The other players ain't so hot either. They first hit it big with "The Bends" in 1995 and their 1997 album "O.K. Computer" was declared a "classic", comparable with the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Yeah, right. 2000's "Kid A" has also been declared a "masterpiece", but that just shows what a wasteland popular music has become. That album is just pompous, pretentious crap. Radiohead is a critical "darling" favorite just like that other Britpop dud, Oasis. Ha ha ha.

2. "Radio Head" is a cool, catchy number found on the 1986 album "True Stories" by the unique American New Wave band Talking Heads. The song title inspired the name of the overrated British band.

1. Radiohead gets compared to U2 and Pink Floyd alot and that is a crock of shit. Their music is just artsy-fartsy tedium with whiny vocals. All their albums are boring rubbish.

2. The song "Radio Head" is pumped up by a guest accordion player. Get the "True Stories" CD and check out this and the other fine cuts on this album.

Radiohead by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 16, 2007

end-of-the-millenium bullshit 

the wave of excessive bullshit that dominated everything during the fucking PC 90s, especially the second half. In 1993, ABC TV aired a special on angels, chiefly because New Age freaks decided that they believed in them. It gave "details" of supposed "encounters" with angels by people who wanted to make some easy money and their Warholian famous 15 minutes. Soon after that "prophecy" shows appeared on TV to fool the gullible and uninformed, and using superstitions, misread readings, scientifically unsound theories and outright lies. The angel fad didn't abate, CBS put out "Touched by an Angel" to feed the heat-of-the-moment sentiments, the up-to-that-point good country band Alabama put out the trend-chasing crap song "Angels Among Us", and angel pins and other angel-themed merchandise was sold. Cha-ching!. In 1996 Comet Hyakutake graced our skies with a spectacular showing. After that it happened again with the wonderful Comet Hale-Bopp. Many cults and sects appeared out from under the woodpile, and many people commited suicide en masse, particularly in the Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate and more. When the aforementioned comets came close to the Earth, much doom-saying was made and ignorance was rampant. One particular cult picked up it's tents and settled outside the city of Jerusalem to await the arrival of Jesus Christ. The comets gave an impetus for Hollywood to make some real crappy disaster-from-the-skies movies. Simply put, Jesus Christ didn't return (He will when He's ready to, not before and not when we predict it), and the universe kept on rolling.

TV, movies, the Internet, other forms of communication, clothing styles, music, culture, religion, and much more were affected by the trends of all the end-of-the-millenium bullshit that came out in the last decade of the 20th century. OK, Prince said "they say two thousand-zero-zero party over oops, out of time. So tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999". But why did so many people have to take it all so literally? As we well know, it's 2007 and we're still here, for all it's worth. The end ain't gonna come until it's time for it.

end-of-the-millenium bullshit by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 16, 2007

I'm too sexy 

a number one hit from early 1992 by the British techno-dance trio Right Said Fred. It's like the 1987 hit "Love Removal Machine" by the Cult. It's a catchy tune, and the lyrics are so unbelievably stupid, yet that stupidness factor is what makes the song so cool. The title phrase became a catch term. For instance: T-shirts came out that said "I'm too sexy for this shirt!"

1. I'm too sexy for this shirt
Too sexy for this shirt
So sexy it hurts!

2. I'm too sexy for the overrated movie "Titantic".

3. And I'm too sexy for this song.

I'm too sexy by I Saw U2 Live Twice July 16, 2007