Posted on 03/13/2019 6:08:09 AM PDT by simpson96
Greg Kihn - The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em) - recorded live 7/6/1981
The Breakup Song was released in 1981 and peaked at #15 on the Billboard 100.
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I LOVE this song.
Have it on my streaming list on amazon music.
VERY underrated song.
Another song from, I think, around the same time that I like is “What Do All the People Know”
But “Breakup” is better and superbly catches the mood of what one feels like sometimes after a breakup.
Good one thanks
My primary preference in music is blues and blues rock, but a nice polished pop tune like this definitely can get your toes tapping.
It’s always paired with Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl” in my head.
Both popular at around the same time and seemingly came out of nowhere, though Springfield had a hit several years prior with “Speak to the Sky.”
Good tune!
For 16 years Greg Kihn was the top dj on San Jose’s KFOX classic rock station and even wrote a mystery novel (I have a copy of it around here somewhere) until he left in 2012. Don’t know what he’s doing these days. A really nice, down-to-earth guy.
Anhhh Ahhh, Anhhh Ahhh, Anhhh Ahhh - otherwise NO!!
Sorry, glad I never knew this song.
This is a great forgotten track that I am adding to my playlists. Brings me back to 1981 when I was stationed at 29 Palms learning about radio repair. This song used to play on that desert station out there.
I love this song! It’s my and my 10 year old son’s favorite song. Well, he likes “I’ve Gotta Get a Message to You” from the Bee Gees as well. The pre disco Bee Gees were awesome.
Sorry I really meant no offense. I should not have spoken so negatively.
We all have different tastes in all the different art forms, and we have forms of art, music usually, that were a part of certain parts of our past.
I remember in 1968, at Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, hearing Dione Warwick on the radio every day. Even now I can easily recall any of her best tunes in my head.
Enjoy whatever you enjoy. The only thing bad is to enjoy nothing.
Never got to 29 Palms much, though made several trips to friends who lived in Yucca Valley. My only stateside tour of duty was down at Yuma, Arizona - Yuma Proving Grounds.
bttt
I was out to Yuma a few times at the Navy base out there. I always got a kick out of a Naval base being in the middle of the desert (it's officially an air station but still). My biggest memory of Yuma is that the barracks (BEQ) were way nicer than what the Marine Corps had and they had cold beer in the vending machines! I'm not sure that was official Naval policy however.
Went to a lot of desert exercises in that part of the country (i.e. Gallant Eagle). Yuma, AZ; El Centro, CA (where the Blue Angels were); Niland, CA. Not to mention 29 Palms a LOT. This was all in the early 1980s. Good times and good memories.
A lot of my memories of Yuma surround two things.
One was how f....ing HOT it was. Good thing we had a swimming pool on the post, and that we could drive out to the Colorado river and get a boat to go out on the water.
The second was that I did not have a car right away, and I would sometimes get a ride up to my parents for a weekend. Not wanting my dad to make the drive taking me back on Sunday nite, I’d have him drop me at an I-10 Freeway entrance and I’d hitch hike back to Yuma. It was interesting how much you could smell the after harvest burning of the Alfalfa fields - smells just like Marijuana. Didn’t meet any “wierdos” during my hitch hiking; usually just older folks driving late because they hated all the traffic other times. It often took me more than one pick up to get to downtown Yuma where I could, if early enough, get a military shuttle bus to the post; or I’d pay for a cab to the post gate. I no sooner bought a car when I was sent to Europe. LOL
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