I’m going non-com for the weekend, so here’s a bonus FReedy FRiday FthReedy FthuRsday offering to tide you over during my absence. The song: You Get Me Lost, which you can buy here.
I read a story once, possibly on the Costello-L Elvis Costello Discussion List or USA Today’s Pop Candy blog, that involved You Get Me Lost. A friend of a friend of the poster was at a party hitting on an attractive maiden of virtue scuffed. Said maiden, who’d inhaled multiple Long Island Iced Teas, apparently made the following offer: “There’s a song from the 1990s that’s probably the greatest love song ever written. My girlfriends and I always said that if we met a guy who knew it, we’d go home with him on the spot.”
Under different, friskier circumstances, this offer would have sparked a song-bidding frenzy (Chloe Dancer! If I Should Fall Behind! That one Josh Groban song with the operatic yelps!). Instead, everybody just looked at each other awkwardly until some quiet kid in the corner offered up You Get Me Lost.
The girl was said to have reacted quite enthusiastically. “That would be, like, number two on my list!,” she said, nodding. The right answer, alas, was Tell Her This by Del Amitri. Nobody got none that night. The end.
