I love these quiet moments with Elvis. He will sit by the window for hours watching the birds as long as I open the blinds for him.

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We have been leaving the Bevmo Bag out on the floor lately just because it has become Elvis’ latest nemesis. He simply can’t understand why he can’t get inside of the thing. Since it is a bag meant to transport glass bottles, it has dividers in it that are just large enough for Elvis’ head only.

That doesn’t stop him from trying to put his whole body into it several times a week.

Last month, I attended the second Ritz Reunion. Dancing at the Ritz was a major part of my high school and college years, so it was VERY enjoyable to let myself dance my butt off to the old tunes surrounded by my old friends.

I was surprised at how many holes there were in my music collection, so I was SO grateful when the DJs posted their playlists for the night.

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Here are the playlists with links to where you can download them. I gave Amazon precedence over iTunes because they can be played on any mp3 player, not just Apple products. If it’s not available on either, I linked to it on Listen To YouTube.

TONJA

• Only You – Yaz
• Don’t You Want Me – The Human League
• Why Can’t I Be You – The Cure
• Tainted Love – Soft Cell
• West End Girls – The Pet Shop Boys
• Just Can’t Get Enough – Depeche Mode
• I Want Candy – Bow Wow Wow
• Love Resurrection – Alison Moyet
• Big in Japan – Alphaville
• Lover Come Back To Me – Dead or Alive
• Funky Town – Lipps, Inc.
• Blue Monday – New Order
• Wild Thing – X
• Jungle Jezebel – Divine
• State Farm – Yaz

DAVE

• Christian Says – Tones on Tail
• Nemesis – Shriekback [iTunes Link]
• Absolutely Immune II – Act
• Relax P:Machine (Medley) – P4F
• Sex (I’m a…) – Berlin
• Work for Love – Ministry
• Brother Louie – Modern Talking
• Living on the Ceiling – Blancmange
• Send Me an Angel – Real Life
• Every Day is Halloween – Ministry
• Peek-A-Boo – Siouxsie & the Banshees
• American Soviets – CCCP
• White Lines -Grandmaster Flash
• Soft Core – Maurice and the Cliches
• Gimme Gimme Gimme (Dance Mix) – Erasure
• You Think You’re a Man – Divine

JOEY

• A to Z – ABC
• Jet Set – Alphaville
• Baby Pain – Intaferon
• Spin for Me – Shoes
• I Touch Roses (Long Stemmed Version) – Book Of Love
• Let’s Go All The Way – Sly Fox
• Boom Boom – Trio
• Breakaway (Popper Mix) – Big Pig
• Theme From S’Express (Extended Version) – S’Express
• Respectable (Club Mix) – Mel & Kim
• Victim Of Love (Vixen Vitesse Mix) – Erasure
• State Farm (Madhouse Mix) – Yaz
• I Beg Your Pardon (Club Mix) – Kon Kan
• New York, New York – MCL
• Underneath the Radar (Extended) – Underworld
• Time Warp – Rocky Horror Picture Show
• Wild Flower (Extended Rock Mix) – The Cult
• Don’t Change – INXS
• Take Me Now (Extended Mix) – Vicious Pink
• Strip – Adam Ant

JASON

• I Want Your Sex – George Michael
• I Want Your Hands On Me – Sinead O’Connor
• Nasty Girl – Vanity 6
• Get Down Make Love – NIN
• Sample That – Bang Orchestra
• Boom Boom – Paul Lekakis
• Sex Shooter – Apollonia 6
• Fetish – Vicious Pink
• Hit That Perfect Beat (12″ Extended) – Bronski Beat
• Don’t Go – Yaz
• You Spin Me Round (Murder Mix) – Dead or Alive
• Hearts and Minds – Nitzer Ebb
• Scratch – Contagion
• Murderous – Nitzer Ebb
• Headhunter – Front 242
• Fire Woman – The Cult
• Puttin’ On The Ritz – Taco

It was a wonderful night and every song was perfect. The night couldn’t last forever, however, so there were many Ritz songs that were missed. Here are my favorites from our Ritz days that didn’t make the cut.

• Join In The Chant – Nitzer Ebb
• Everything That Rises Must Converge – Shriekback [iTunes link]
• Certain Things Are Likely – Kiss The Pink
• Go! (club Mix) – Tones On Tail
• Why? – Bronski Beat
• Shriekback – Faded Flowers
• Cities In Dust – Siouxsie And The Banshees
• Kiss Me – Stephen Duffy
• Vicious Pink – CCCan’t You See 12in
• C’mon! C’mon! [12″ Version] – Bronski Beat
• Pop Muzik (’89 Robin Scott remix) – M
• More Human Than Human – White Zombie
• Welcome To Paradise – Front 242

• The Power of Love – Frankie Goes To Hollywood
• Happy Birthday – Altered Images
• Pain – Oingo Boingo
• Living On Video – Trans X
• Pump Up The Volume (UK 12″ Remix) – M|A|R|R|S
• New York, New York – Nina Hagen

• Who Needs Love Like That – Erasure
• Spirit In The Sky – Doctor & The Medics
• Apollo 9 – Adam Ant
• Kiss Them For Me – Siouxsie And The Banshees
• C est Comme Ca – Les Rita Mitsouko
• Funkytown – Pseudo Echo
• The Beautiful People – Marilyn Manson
• I Wanna Be A Cowboy – Boys Don’T Cry
• Heart And Soul – T’Pau
• Push It – Salt-N-Pepa
• Wild Thing – Tone-Loc
• Andy – Les Rita Mitsouko
• World Destruction – Time Zone featuring John Lydon & Afrika Bambaataa
• Urban Struggle – The Vandals
• Free Nelson Mandela – The Specials

That makes an even 100 songs that we all loved and danced to back when we used to put on the Ritz. Leave a message in the comment if I missed any of your favorites and I’ll track them down for you.

I’ve talked about Studio Line hair products from Loreal and how Sigue Sigue Sputnik had a commercial blurb about them before:

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For the longest time, it was impossible to get that tiny commercial digitally, but I recently found the album Flaunt It on Amazon:

• Flaunt It Sigue Sigue Sputnik at Amazon.com

Unfortunately, it isn’t its own track on the album. It’s merely an afterthought at the end of Teenage Thunder. I separated it out and made a separate track of it. Listening to this old commercial reminds me of the Eighties all over again.

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