OT - mystery new wave song from the late 80's.

[alanforduk]

Obviously not the classic "you only love me cos I work on your car" by Rev Buck Naked

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Alan



--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, michael stoecker <michstoecker@...> wrote:
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> Hey gang, thought I'd throw this incredibly vague puzzle to the group b/c the group never ceases to amaze me and I might get lucky. A friend of mine has a song that she really wants to figure out. Problem is, very few details, if any concrete ones at all. Here's the rundown - 
> 
> " Back somewhere between 87-89, there was a song they used to play on
> WLIR. I don't remember the name of the group. I can't remember most of
> the words. So you can see how I'm having trouble trying to figure out
> what the song really was. (I can hear the music in my head, but it's
> hard to hum so it comes out just sounding like one note if and when I
> try....) What I can tell you is that it was a song sung by a guy (or a
> band with a guy lead singer) about how his girlfriend loves her car
> more than him. And he sings for a while, and then there's this spoken
> bit where he says something like, "I think it's sick that you'll talk
> to your car... but you won't talk to me!" Or something."
> 
> She added that the style of the song was "very New Wave," and the vocals were sung by "an English sounding guy."
> 
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>