Wild kind of look to the day,
opening eyes impale neon flickers
She moon she turning away,
the city's her slave, 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 suprise 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 playtime than money

Maximum big suprise 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 a wind
Cut open murmurs and sounds be calm hands on skin
Carry further oh...entangled strands all sing
Saving some time to slip away we could dance oh..
Shouldn't be asking wild and scheming
Could be my election day

Maximum big suprise 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

GOD, I love Arcadia.

Great lyrics

Great music

They RULE!

Know what? Every now and then, I dig that tape out (yes, tape) and groove to Arcadia. That was an interesting piece set of songs that caought me off guard back in the day. "Lady Ice" is my fav.

xpsiter said:

That's my man, xpsiter. You know what's up. I used to call myself Lady Ice when I was trading Duran stuff.

VinaBlue said:

That song is so hypnotic, it's unreal. It's amazing the whole project was mostly slept on.

Lady Ice, huh, Vinablue? Hmm...I couldn't have gone with being called El Diablo or anything like that, so I just kept that tape going and going and going...

I still got that tape.they had a Cool Cover of The Isley Brother's "harvest For The World".

mistermaxxx said:

That was The Power Station.

I loved this song but LeBon never sounded whiny-er than on this one

legend said:

yeah I got it mixed it.Robert Palmer.I Bought both back in 85&got things mixed up.but "Re-Election Day" was cool on that "A View to a Kill" Tip.

I play that song literally on Election Day, even though it's not about that literally. I've worn that tape out. Need to order another one, if its not already out of print. I liked "Goodbye is Forever" as well. Whine and all.

Arcadia was ahead if it's time... I love them!

funkyslsistah said:

I dug "Goodbye is Forever" as well. Funky.

I just put "so red the rose" in google and found some places you can buy it online.

I have the cd, lp, and a video documentary. The video is the making of their videos, "Election Day", "Goodbye is Forever", "The Flame", "The Promise" and "Missing". Very cool behind the scenes stuff.

You can get a really cool cd of all their remixes here:

www.duran2.net

Click on "big store" or "For Sale"

xpsiter said:

The Extended remix is killer.

VinaBlue said:

Damn, gotta get out the credit card.

VinaBlue said:

Most DEFINITELY getting this one.

arcadia - so red the rose.

one of the best, underrated albums of the 80s, IMHO

Oh COME ON!

Arcadia was Duran minus the power station boys. It was just Simon getting jealous because BANG A GONG kicked SO MUCH wicked ass.

I mean, come on, Election Day vs. Bang A Gong, or Some Like It Hot, or Harvest For the Wolrd, of Still In Your Heart... The POWER STATION RULES! Arcadia was just something for the remainders of Duran Duran to do while Power Station DOMINATED the air waves.

Arcadia sounded JUST LIKE Duran Duran. Ain't saying that's a BAD thing, but Power Station sounded NOTHING like anything else at that time.

And before you jump me on this - Robert Palmer released Addicted to Love AFTER the Power Station. NYAAH!
[This message was edited Sun May 18 8:22:11 PDT 2003 by otan]