Billy Idol “Don’t Stop”

sfilzen — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 20:01:57 +0000

Billy Idol “Don’t Stop” 1981. A cassette post today for a few reasons: the inventor of the cassette tape, Lou Ottens, died this past weekend at age 94 and today, March 10th, is Ritchie Cordell’s birthday – he was one of the writers of “Mony Mony,” a hit for Tommy James and the Shondells in 1968. Billy Idol’s 1981 version of “Mony Mony” on this cassette EP first went to #7 on the US Dance chart but then his live version went to #1 in 1987 (knocking Tiffany’s cover of another Cordell-penned/produced songs, “I Think We’re Alone Now” from the top spot that week). I didn’t purchase many cassettes, though I have a ton of dubbed Maxell tapes, but for whatever reason I bought this one back in the mid-80′s. Besides “Mony Mony,” it has Generation X’s “Dancing With Myself” (Idol did not re-record it for the EP, the producers simply edited down the original Gen X version). It has another Gen X song that Idol did re-record: “Untouchables” that originally appeared on the 1980 album Kiss Me Deadly plus the song “Baby Talk.” Side B is an interview with Billy Idol and Martha Quinn from MTV and I honestly don’t remember ever listening to it and can’t confirm that by actually playing this tape right now because, true to form, my cassette player immediately began to chew it up.

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Billy Idol “Don’t Stop”

sfilzen — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:14:03 +0000

Billy Idol “Don’t Stop” released 35 years ago on this date, October 24th, 1981. Idol’s first solo release, this EP contains four songs and this great promo poster.

Two of Billy Idol’s best-known songs appear on Don’t Stop: “Mony Mony,” a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ hit from 1968, and “Dancing With Myself,” which Idol has previously released with his former band, Generation X. The track was not re-recorded, simply remixed and edited to a shorter length for this EP. The track “Untouchables” is also a Gen X song that appeared on their album Kiss Me Deadly, though Idol did rerecord it for his EP.

“Mony Mony” holds a particularly dear spot in my heart. It was still quite popular in the mid-to-late 80′s and would inevitably be included on junior high and high school dance mixes where everyone would gleefully sing along, interjecting between lyrical lines the chant “Hey hey you! Get laid, get fucked!” I did a bit of digging and found that of course we were not unique youth developing naughty lyrics, but rather participating in a pre-internet meme. The chant varied slightly by geography: Southern Ontario/New York state/Ohio/Pennsylvania: “Hey, motherfucker! Get laid, get fucked!” Wisconsin/Colorado/British Columbia: “Hey, what’s that? Get laid, get fucked!” Texas: “Come on, everybody! Get laid, get fucked!”
Some university campuses: “Hey, hey, slut! Get laid, get fucked!” Elsewhere: “Hey, hey what? Get laid, get fucked!”and “Hey, get drunk, get laid, get fucked!” – “get fucked” the great common denominator – and its origin is unknown (the article linked has several theories, including its origin was back in ‘68 with the original release, a bad (?) lip-reading of an Idol performance, or mid-1980′s English frat boys).

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Billy Idol “Don’t Stop”

Billy Idol “Don’t Stop”