In an era when pretty, nasal sopranos were in style (Madonna, Belinda Carlyle, Susanna Hoffs), Hindi was a revelation. A song that people played to make themselves seem profound and deep and maybe worth a tumble.Ī post shared by E. I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR by U2. Cool boys I flirted with would claim to have seen them in a tiny club they weren’t old enough to have gotten into. R.E.M was on the college rock scene and hadn’t made it to the stratosphere. David Byrne was in his big suit mode and I adored him as a poet/prophet/rock star/strange angel. It is also the most important song in Family of Liars - it comes up several times in the book. This song made us nostalgic for our own young selves, our own summers, even as they were happening. It inspired me to wear extra bright blue eyeliner.ĭON’T YOU (FORGET ABOUT ME) by Simple Minds. We were Americans and this song seemed so edgy and British. We didn’t know what it meant but it felt deep. This song was playing everywhere, all the time. WISHING WELL by Terrance Trent Darby, aka Sananda Maitreya. We wanted to hate her, but we couldn’t look away. Pure happiness - a song for driving with the windows down. We couldn’t even believe it.įAITH by George Michael. Here’s the list - and a bit of what these songs meant to me and my friends when I first heard them, much like what they mean to the characters in Family of Liars.
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