Comments on: Kiss You All Over

By: APj

APj — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:54:48 +0000

Ha! What about all the heavy breathing on that song by Donna Summer!?!?!?!? They wouldn’t even play it on the radio.

It’s pretty hard to guess what the radio will play. They seems to be pretty inconsistent. ~Tim

By: Leezer

Leezer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:33:48 +0000

Tim VanSant:

You must be my age (old). I saw Journey a bunch of times at the Seattle Center Colosseum, along with Bruce Springstein, Lover Boy, Styx, The Police, Queen, and Fleetwood Mac.

I always get that “Kiss You All Over” song mixed up with “If I Could Fly,” which is just as cheesy:

“She’s just sixteen years old
leave her alone, they say.
Separated by fools
who don’t know what love is yet,
but i want you to know

If i could fly
I’d pick you up
I’d take you into the night
and show you a love
like you’ve never seen – ever seen…

It’s like having a dream
where nobody has a heart.
It’s like having it all
and watching it fall apart
and I would wait till the end
of time for you
and do it again, it’s true…
I can’t measure my love
there’s nothing to compare it to
but I want you to know……………………………. ”

Eesh.

I’m as old as Barbie [we both entered the world in '59]. Is that old? And you’re right about the cheesy lyrics. Thanks for sharing. I’ll call you when I get that tune out of my head…. ~Tim

By: rachel

rachel — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:33:31 +0000

I, too, am bamboozled as to why “kiss you all over” should be controversial. Surely there were more racy lyrics being written at the time?

Depression-era people are so prudish.

Hey, my parents are depression-era people… so, um, you’re absolutely right. ~Tim

By: Webmiztris

Webmiztris — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:48:29 +0000

that’s funny about the Kiss You All Over lyrics. Now the radio is playing songs like Smack That and Just a Lil Bit which COMPLETELY ooze with sex….lol it’s funny when 7 year olds call in to request songs like Smack That…. that cold winter was ’77; right? I was one year old that year, but I heard it was really freakin cold.

’77 and ’78 were both extraordinarily cold. And I walked to and from school in the snow. Uphill. Both ways…. But after giving it more thought, this concert might really have been in ’79. Good thing this blog is all fiction! ~Tim

By: Winged Hair Via Aqua-Net

Winged Hair Via Aqua-Net — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:30:33 +0000

I am so jealous that you saw Journey in concert. I always wanted to go, but being in fifth grade or whatever I couldn’t go without a parental unit, and they were more into Perry Como. No fun for me of any kind. (This would probably be a good moment to mention that my first concert, seventh grade, was Duran Duran. And I STILL like them.)

That Exile song makes me laugh, though, since it reminds me so piquantly of the roller-rink near my house so many years ago. That song would play, or stuff from the Xanadu soundtrack, or funkadelic music from the Gap Band, and the lights were all crazy and we just thought it was the height of sophistication. And I do remember, not that it’s relevant or even meaningful, thinking how gross it would be to have someone kiss you “all over.” Ewwwwww!

How stupid I was.

Thanks for the opportunity to reminisce.

We all thought we knew the height of sophistication when we were 13. And you’re welcome. ~Tim
P.S. Easy fix on the italics.