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Expired Lyrics: Blondie

"I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall/If you don't answer I'll just ring it off the wall"

--Blondie's 'Hanging on the Telephone' (1978)

In this age of mobile devices, Debbie Harry would be sharing her angst while walking down Broadway rather than loitering around some pay phone.

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d vine

that song, those lyrics, debbie harry's vocals, some things will never expire

January 17 2010 at 9:13 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
p curley

Any lyric related to technology will always be soon outdated. In 1964 Jan and Dean had a hit about a "New Girl in School" I remember the line "Everybody's passing notes in class" Nowdays that lyric would come out as "Everybody's Text messaging in class"

August 14 2009 at 8:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gary Mayer

If a song is good, I don't care if it's dated. This is just a stupid weekend fill article. You realize, Internet readers/bloggers, they use interns to write weekend crap.

April 19 2009 at 7:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Daniel

Debbie Harry is a total bitch and her band is shit. Does anyone care about Blondie? They give 80s music a bad name!

February 16 2009 at 9:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Master Shake

This song still rocks.

February 16 2009 at 4:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allyn

Yeah, I guess writers and songwriters should never use current topical material for their plays, books, or songs. Sorry about that Shakespeare--you screwed up dude.

February 14 2009 at 10:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
strangerntruth

Just watched Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler", and one of my favorite scenes was when he tries calling his estranged daughter from a payphone and she doesn't answer. The desolation and loneliness expressed in that very touching scene would NEVER had worked had he been using a cellphone and been walking around somewhere. You knew watching it that he was reaching out to her, and that she could not call him back.

February 14 2009 at 9:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jason

MAn, redialing was a b!tch! When a girl would hang up on me, it would take 5 minutes to call back! Long distance, and I wouldn't even bother. Let alone dialing the wrong number half way through the dial! SOME things in the past, should be left in the past.:)
By the way, the FIRST few generations of MOTOROLA cell phones lasted for ever, and still would be going if the didn't change them. I remember them, they where like bricks! I recently heard that cell phones are intentionally made crappy, so you will buy on every year.

December 10 2009 at 2:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bob ferguson

Yeah... I guess history is a Bad Thing.
Sorry to inform you Spinner : Rotary Dial technology will NEVER be out-moded. I was informed by a Line Serviceman that there are Millions of hook-ups out on the poles out there - that are unrealistic & economically impossible in this day and age to do without.
Guess my Candlestick - which has been working over a quarter century - has no Fear. S
how me a single Cell Phone that can last as long.

February 12 2009 at 8:05 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
kgk0801

CLASSIC MAN

January 31 2009 at 3:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply