Your Stuck in my Head Song of the Day

So this Thanksgiving weekend for some reason I was on a Lou Reed/Bowie/Iggy Pop 70s kick, I was also incredibly depressed (not sure which caused which.) But as I was listening to Lust for Life and The Idiot and trying not to think of Stroszek I finally actually listened to The Passenger. I don't know if it was the opening riff that reminded me of the 30 Days commercial and also Green Day's Holiday but I ended up listening to it way more than I usually allow myself to listen to any song, but it is quite upbeat and really hypnotic in its way

I am the passenger
And I ride and I ride
I ride through the city's backsides
I see the stars come out of the sky
Yeah, they're bright in a hollow sky
You know it looks so good tonight
I am the passenger
I stay under glass
I look through my window so bright
I see the stars come out tonight
I see the bright and hollow sky
Over the city's a rip in the sky
And everything looks good tonight
Singin' la la la la lalalala...

Get into the car
We'll be the passenger
We'll ride through the city tonight
We'll See the city's ripped backsides
We'll see the bright and hollow sky
We'll see the stars that shine so bright
The sky was made for us tonight
Oh the passenger
How how he rides
Oh the passenger
He rides and he rides
He looks through his window
What does he see?
He sees the stars and hollow sky
He see the stars come out tonight
He sees the city's ripped backsides
He sees the winding ocean drive
And everything was made for you and me
All of it was made for you and me
'cause it just belongs to you and me
So let's take a ride and see what's mine
Singing... la la la la lalalala...

Oh, the passenger
He rides and he rides
He sees things from under glass
He looks through his window's eye
He sees the things he knows are his
He sees the bright and hollow sky
He sees the city asleep at night
He sees the stars are out tonight
And all of it is yours and mine
And all of it is yours and mine
So let's ride and ride and ride and ride...
Singing... la la la la lalalala...

Seriously though, that "la la la la lalala" is impossible to get out once it's in and so here is The Passenger by Iggy Pop- Your Stuck in My Head Song of The Day (and here's a 1977 video filmed at the Manchester Apollo- I wonder if it's as tough a crowd as Harlem)

Iggy Pop- The Passenger [download]


la la la la lalalala

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