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My Gen X Playlist: Strobe Light – The B52’s

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List your top 5 favorite fruits.
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I used to like eating pineapple, but it was such a pain to cut up and serve. I didn’t really know how to cut it cleanly. There would always be too many hard pokey nubs left over that were never fun to chew. If I tried cleaning them up, I always felt like I was wasting a lot of the fruit.

Part of my equation of buying fruit is the ease in which to eat it. This is the reason we eat so many bananas. They come in their own neat package. While I love pineapples, I rarely bought them because it just wasn’t worth the mess.

While we are on this subject, I have to say peeling the stickers off fruit is a nuisance. I don’t know how many times while driving I was tempted to just eat the sticker. I’m sure that would probably nullify all the nutrients from that apple I was eating. Fortunately, this is only a minor inconvenience.

Thank goodness for YouTube. Last summer I found a great way to cut pineapples. Now pineapples are fair game and I can enjoy them all year long. And if you need a slice of pineapple with your cocktail with a little umbrella, I’m your guy. Just say the word.

Next on the list – how in the hell to cut mango. Right now, me cutting a mango is a complete cluster F. Time to search YouTube.

The B52’s released Strobe Light back in 1978. Today’s prompt reminded me of this song because Fred Schneider screams out pineapple in the middle of the song. I used to love that part and would scream along. Old B52’s music was so good back then. This is such a classic.

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Where's my telephone?
Is that you baby? Yeah!
Got something to tell ya. Oh, what?
I wanna see ya tonight.
I want you to walk in the door.
I want you to lay on the floor.
Cause tonight's the night.
We make love under a strobe light.
Underneath the strobe light.

Wanna make love to you under the strobe light.
Wanna make love to you under the strobe light.
Strobe light, wooooooah, strobe light, wooooooah, yeah!

Pulsin' light goes to my head!
Everything I see is red!
Baby, when I kiss your hair,
I feel electricity in the air.

I'm gonna kiss your eyes. (gasp)
Then I'm gonna kiss your neck. (groan)
Then I'm gonna kiss your tummy. (oooh!)
Then I'm gonna kiss your PINEAPPLE! (shriek!)

Tonight's the night for love under the light.
Strobe light, strobe light.
Underneath the strobe light.

Wanna make love to you under the strobe light.
Wanna make love to you under the strobe light.
Strobe light, wooooooah, strobe light, wooooooah, yeah!

I just wanna make love to you.
I just wanna make love to you.
Underneath the strobe light.
Strobe light! Strobe light! Strobe light!
Strobe light! Strobe light!
Strobe strobe strobe strobe strobe light.

20 thoughts on “My Gen X Playlist: Strobe Light – The B52’s”

  1. Great song choice for the topic today! I hated pineapple growing up, probably because my mom would put it in absolutely everything. I figured she did it on purpose because i didn’t like it (spoiler alert: she did not do it for that reason). Now i love fresh pineapple!

    My intro to pomegranates was similarly rocky until i learned how to open one up — thanks, instagram!

    Great post as usual!!

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  5. I agree with your sentiments on the pineapples and mangos completely!!! I just cut around the stickers nowadays. I love watermelons and all melons too but I don’t like the hassle of cutting them so I rarely eat them. Did you say you were growing the starfruit seeds? How are they doing?

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  6. Such a great 80s party band! I have so many memories associated with them. I think I saw them on their next tour at the Orpheum in Boston – around 1982. But we definitely knew that line:
    “I’m gonna kiss your pineapple” 🤣

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  7. grapes

    pears

    apples

    watermelon

    canteloupe

    🖤

    I’d never heard of the B-52s until the 1990s! I grew up in rural Ohio and was raised on the radio. When I moved to the Chicago area in 1989, my musical selections grew significantly.

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    1. That’s a great list of fruit. Love them all!

      Yes, the B-52s have a lot of great music. The old stuff is a little more raw. Private Idaho is my favorite song from them. The harmony of the ladies are the best!

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  8. I don’t remember his song at all! I love pineapple and fortunately my sweety is ace at cutting it up. Our go-to fruit these days is the Cosmic Crisp apple. They’re out of this world!

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