Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation: Dream Prom Themes By Galaxie 500, Plastic Bertrand, Ringo Starr + More
Depeche Mode, "Waiting for the Night"
Ha! Depeche Mode! I knew I'd get them in here at some point! I seriously actually suggested this as a prom theme in high school. (I was a very "involved" total superachiever back in the day and did nearly everything at my school.) Of course, everyone laughed; even back then I was waving the banner of darkness high. I still think this is a really great, spooky nocturnal kind of song, perfect for a perversely Goth prom. (P.S. the prom committee picked "One Moment in Time" by Whitney Houston. That can't even be redeemed by irony.) (Kat)
Galaxie 500, "Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste"
I decided I'm totally going to turn my "'Jules et Jim' Go to the Prom" idea into my next screenplay. When I direct it for Fox Searchlight, it's going to star Krysten Ritter and two dudes who I haven't determined. (Suggestions, anyone?) This is totally going to be the end credits song, just because I always wanted to put Galaxie 500 in a teen movie. This of course is a cover of the Jonathan Richman song, and the song and the performance are both glorious. Its sentiment = beautifully ironic. The whole idea of youth is to effin' waste it! (Kat)
Plastic Bertrand, "Ca Plane Pour Moi"
My two real-life prom themes were "These Are Days" by 10,000 Maniacs and "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley, both fantastically horrible choices because (a) you can't dance to them and (b) prom reeeeeally isn't that meaningful. Far better to pick something wicked danceable and totally meaningless, and boy does "Ca Plane Pour Moi" fit the bill! According to Wikipedia, the second verse can be roughly translated as: Allez-oop! One morning a darling came to my home, a cellophane puppet with Chinese hair, a plaster, a hangover, drank my beer in a large rubber glass, Oooo-ooo-ooo-ooo!, like an Indian in his igloo! Totally genius/stupid, and the song perfectly fits with my dream prom's new wave theme. Plus, you could say, "My prom theme is the song that plays in the scene in European Vacation where the Griswalds are going through all the art museums in fast motion." Everybody loves a good European Vacation reference. (Liz)
The Ramones, "I Believe in Miracles"
But if you simply must inject a little meaning into your prom theme, it's probably best to just go with something super-sweet and achingly anthemic like "I Believe in Miracles." If I were a Reagan-era teenage outcast, me and my Hollywood High punk-rock boyfriend would so seize the dancefloor on this one, and then we'd blow up the school or something. (Liz)
Ringo Starr, "I'm the Greatest"
A surefire way to tell if a given nogoodforme.com blogger is waaayyyy prommed out is if said blogger picks a solo Ringo Starr track as her Ultimate Prom Theme Song. I don't know what kind of crazy, amazing ("craze-mazing") parallel Universe you'd have to live in for your prom DJ to blast this slobbery ole mutt of a pop song in lieu of "You Take My Breath Away" or Hannah Montana ballads or OMC's "How Bizarre" (maybe?). This Lennon-penned tune is both intoxicating and endearing ("Awww! John Lennon thinks Ringo Starr's the greatest! That's so sweet!"), but prom-appropriate mostly because it captures the misguided, self-centered and delusional transcendence a human being feels when graduating from high school. "My real life is finally beginning!" those poor children think, "I will be SO happy from now on!" Five years later, things'll start feeling more like "Beaucoups of Blues," but hey, you'll always have the memories. (LJ)
Zen, "Hair"
I was originally going to pick the morosely romantic, slow dance-y "Waiting To Know You" by the Fiery Furnaces as my non-Ringo prom theme, but c'mon- two days ago, I claimed that the prom of my dreams would involve my own decapitation; I can be a little bit more creative than a soppy Freaking Friedbergers number. I picked this Dutch cover of the theme song from the musical "Hair" because I like imagining it as the soundtrack to a madcap prom-gone-wrong wherein the class stoner spikes the punch with LSD and all the students go bananners and participate in a choreographed dance involving Sun Salutations, the Mashed Potato, and rollerskates/blades. Plus, I wanted to spice up the ngfm homepage with the psikedelick gorgeousity of "Hair"'s 45 cover- check out how hot the dude on the far left and the dude in the center of Zen are! Dee-yamn! I would "take" either of "them" as my "date" to the "prom," if you know what I mean. (LJ)
Tags: delusional transcendance, European Vacation, Hannah Montana, if Heathers and Valley Girl were the same movie, LSD, OMC's "How Bizarre", Plastic Bertrand, prom, Prom Week, psychedelia, Ringo Starr, The Freaking Friedbergers, the Mashed Potato (the dance), The Ramones
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