Our Lips Are Sealed

 

It is now 40 years ago when Los Angeles band The Go-Go's released their first album. They were one of the first female bands writing their own songs and playing their instruments. The music press filed them under new wave but for me they were the perfect power-pop band in their time and I have to admit that I really liked their naturalness and abandon in playing. And they were good and wrote some songs for eternity that makes me smile when I listen to them again. Jane Wiedlin, guitar player by The Go-Go's, wrote together with Fun Boy Three's Terry Hall one of the best pop songs from the early 80's. Seldom the lyrics and music were in harmony like this. Both versions are great but if I had to decide my favorite I will ever go for Fun Boy Three.

Our Lips Are Sealed

I suppose all of you made the same experience: You listen to a song you know for ages and afterwards you can't clear your mind from it. This happened to me the recent days listening to Fun Boy Three again. I always had a fondness to them probably because the were formed by the broken pieces of The Specials. Terry Hall's voice fitted to their songs like none other. He wrote this song together with Jane Wiedlin from The Go-Gos. Still a standard in the early 80s new wave sound. I think I should feature this band in a separate post.

Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
The Go-Gos - Our Lips Are Sealed