election day Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/election-day/ Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:03:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 Arcadia “Election Day” https://vinylfromthevault.com/arcadia-election-day-1985-the-best-and-only/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arcadia-election-day-1985-the-best-and-only Tue, 03 Nov 2020 16:57:45 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/arcadia-election-day-1985-the-best-and-only/ Arcadia “Election Day” 1985. The best (and only?) song about election day for today, November 3rd, 2020. “Election Day” was the first single from Arcadia (the Duran Duran offshoot of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor) off their one and only LP So Red the Rose. It went to #6 in the US and #7 [...]

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]]> Arcadia “Election Day” 1985. The best (and only?) song about election day for today, November 3rd, 2020. “Election Day” was the first single from Arcadia (the Duran Duran offshoot of Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor) off their one and only LP So Red the Rose. It went to #6 in the US and #7 in the UK. I bought this 12″ single probably the day it was released (in October ‘85). Side A has the extended version “Election Day (Consensus Mix)” which is a bit longer than the album version, but does feature the same awesome sing-speak of 80′s icon Grace Jones. Side B has the single version of “Election Day” and an instrumental of the track “She’s Moody and Grey, She’s Mean and She’s Restless.” Some great Le Bon lyrics on this track for today including “Wild kind of look to the day” and “Hi guys, by the way, are you aware you’re being illegal
It’s making your savior behavior look evil.” VOTE!!!!!!!!

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]]> 9549 Arcadia “Election Day” https://vinylfromthevault.com/arcadia-election-day-1985-i-have-multiple/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arcadia-election-day-1985-i-have-multiple Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:41:14 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3101 Arcadia “Election Day” 1985.  I have multiple copies of “Election Day” - I blogged about the 12″ (Cryptic Cut and The Consensus Mix) back in April for another election day - this version I picked up before So Red The Rose was released in late fall of ‘85. (The back of the single states that “an alternative version of Election [...]

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]]> Arcadia “Election Day” 1985.  I have multiple copies of “Election Day” – I blogged about the 12″ (Cryptic Cut and The Consensus Mix) back in April for another election day – this version I picked up before So Red The Rose was released in late fall of ‘85. (The back of the single states that “an alternative version of Election Day will feature on the forthcoming album So Red The Rose.”) The b-side of this single is “She’s Moody and Grey, She’s Mean and She’s Restless” (OR IS SHE NASTY????), basically an instrumental version of “Election Day.”

I just finished voting in this pivotal national election. I live in a swing state so my vote really does count.  But I was not able to pull out a line from “Election Day” to any aggressive ‘poll watchers’ who might be trying to intimidate voters (they wouldn’t bother at our polling place – it’s a very very liberal part of town so their efforts would be quashed quickly). I really wanted to start singing “Hi guys, by the way, are you aware you’re being illegal?” (I did refrain from pulling off my shirt and praying – it’s stinking cold in November)

Anyway, here’s hoping for a future of freedom of speech and freedom from hate and a picture from D2′s Instagram of John Taylor post-vote.

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Wild kind of look to the day
Opening eyes impale neon flickers
She moon, she turning away
The city’s her slave but he’s cheating his mistress

She’s moody and grey
She’s mean and she’s restless
So restless, so restless indeed

All over you as they say
Rumours or rivals yell at the strike force
Hi guys, by the way
Are you aware you’re being illegal?

It’s making your savior behaviour look evil
‘Scuse my timing but say
How’d you fit in with this flim, flam and judy

Maximum big surprise
Your smile is something new

I pull my shirt off and pray
We’re sacred and bound to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
We’re coming up on re-election day

Stretching my love down the way
To your invitation stretching my body
Use your intuitive play
‘Cause maybe we have more play time than money

Maximum big surprise
She knows something new

I pull my shirt off and pray
I’m saving myself to suffer the heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
We’re coming up on re-election day

By roads and backways a lover’s chance down wind
Cut open murmurs and sounds be calm hands on skin
Carry further, entangled strands all sing
I’m saving some time to slip away
We could dance!

Shouldn’t be asking, wild and scheming
Could be my election day

Maximum big surprise
You know something new

I pull my shirt off and pray
We’re sacred and bound to suffer this heatwave
Pull my shirt off and pray
We’re coming up on re-election day

Re-election day

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]]> 3101 Arcadia “Election Day (Cryptic Cut-No Voice)” https://vinylfromthevault.com/arcadia-election-day-cryptic-cut-no-voice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=arcadia-election-day-cryptic-cut-no-voice Tue, 05 Apr 2016 19:45:12 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3512 Arcadia “Election Day (Cryptic Cut-No Voice)” 1985. 12″ single b/w “Election Day (7 inch mix)” and “Election Day (The Consensus Mix).” Today is election day in Wisconsin and fortunately I have several different 12″ and 7″ versions of this excellent Duran Duran side-project for this election year. I just voted - I go in the middle of the [...]

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]]> Arcadia “Election Day (Cryptic Cut-No Voice)” 1985. 12″ single b/w “Election Day (7 inch mix)” and “Election Day (The Consensus Mix).” Today is election day in Wisconsin and fortunately I have several different 12″ and 7″ versions of this excellent Duran Duran side-project for this election year. I just voted – I go in the middle of the day when usually the polls aren’t so busy but wow, lots of people for an April election. Besides the presidential primary, we have many important state and local officials to vote in (or out) today, including a State Supreme Court judge, Milwaukee County Executive and Supervisor and our local alderman (hopefully soon an alderwoman! My friend Meagan is running).

Side A’s No Voice version of “Election Day” is slightly misleading – it’s a No Simon Voice cut, but Grace Jones’ glorious cryptic cameo is still included. Side B has the single version, which reached #6 in the US and #7 in the UK. The Consensus Mix clocks in at 8:39 (the 7 inch mix is just 4:30), with extra instrumentals (more saxophone!), vague radio chatter and Simon howls.

Shouldn’t be asking
Wild and scheming
Could be my election day

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