Don't You (forget about me)

For those you hoping this thread is about me leaving the jc, you don't get your wish, cause the best is yet to come.

On topic. This song is # 16 on billy idol's greatest hits. It calls it a new recording, but the song sounds familiar. Is it a cover or am I imagining things?

Axl.

 

Oh, you mean Arosmith didn't make that song? I could have sworn that I have heard him sing it before... Maybe it was something else...

And no I was not hoping that this was a goodbye thread

 

Wasn't it the theme to The Breakfast Club?

 

Yup Breakfast Club... I like that song

 

#Don't you...forget about me.
Don't you forget about me#

Um...that's all I can remember...

 

Original recording means that it isn't just taken from an old CD and placed on this one, they actually re-recorded the song.

 

"Um...that's all I can remember..."




Don't You (Forget About Me)

Hey, hey, hey ,hey
Watching ooh... yeah

Won't you come see about me?
I'll be alone, dancing and you know it baby

Tell me your troubles and doubts
Giving me everything inside and out, out
Love's strange so real in the dark
Think of the tender things that we were working on

Slow change may pull us apart
I'll get us back together at heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

Will you stand above me?
Look my way and never love me
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Would you recognise me?
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Watching ooh..... yeah

Don't you try and pretend
It's my feeling we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity and security

Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone, dancing and you know it baby
Going to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't You Forget About Me
Don't Don't Don't Don't
Don't You Forget About Me

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
(As you walk on by)

Or will you walk on by?
Will you walk away?
Come on - call my name
Come on - call my name
Will you call my name?

I say
La la la...

Will you walk on by?
Would you call my name?
As you walk on by
Would you call my name?
When you walk on by?
Oh yeah
Come on and call my name
As you walk on by
Hey baby call my name!
When you walk on by
Would you call my name
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah....

 

But it wasn't released on any other of his cd's.

Axl.

 

What was wrong with the original recording ?

And when will this "greatest hits" be in stores?

 

2000, their was no original recording. Thats the reason for the question.

Axl.

 

That's a Simple Minds song isn't it?

 

i think someone older wrote it.

axl.

 

Anyone know anything?

Axl.

 

yeah i know some stuff, u?

 

Uruk-Hai is correct. It's a Simple Minds' song. It was written in 1985 and included on The Breakfast Club soundtrack.

Damn good tune as well.

 

I like that movive. The song too.

 

That's funny, I had always thought it was Billy.

 

One of my fave songs ever... I'd be interested in hearing this cover.



Rick McCallum loves you!

 

Who is simple minds? I heard the song on the radio being played on heating up the eighties. And that sounded like billy, but the billy idol version is awesome, shows he still has talent.

Axl.

 

Uruk-hai is right. It's Simple Minds. They were a band in the 80's that had a couple hits. Don't You(Forget about me) was the most popular though. Billy Idol re-did it a couple years later.

 

Ah, kids these days, don't they know that
all music now a days either Samples or
Covers

songs from the 80s! It's all about the 80's

Simple Minds, Simple Red, both great bands.

She's a river!

 

That means billy re did it in the 80's hence the reason billy's version got played on an 80's hour.

Axl.

 

The Breakfast Club. The best John Hughes movie, period

 

Yeah Idol did redo it in the 80's so he does kinda get credit for it too. It's still a really good song though.

 

Its a real good song, when i heard it on my billy idol greatest hits cd, it was as if I'd heard ti a million times before, and now that i know its been around for a long long year I probably have.

Axl.