British Invasion: A one, two. A one, two, three, four!

Over the past few months, Mr. Mari and I realized that there's a lot of Great Britain in our lives. I'm not saying there's not a lot of America or Japan in our lives but it was odd to think that GB has a percentage too.

Mr. Mari and I grew up in the 80s. As I like to call it, during the second British (music) Invasion: New Order, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Thomas Dolby, Duran Duran, The Eurythmics, A Flock of Seagulls, Tears for Fears, The Thompson Twins, Paul Young, Culture Club, Wham!, Elvis Costello, Simple Minds, Soft Cell, Everything But the Girl, Fine Young Cannibals, ABC, - I can keep going too! We tapered our pants and put gel in our hair. I owned at least two pairs of "Doc" Martens. One of my closest friends during Senior year of high school was an exchange student from London - how lucky was I?! 

Neither one of us think of ourselves as Anglophiles but after thinking about the music we listened to in our youth, where we go for brunch or the foods Mr. Mari and I sometimes crave, it's undeniably there. So for the next few Fridays, I'll be posting about some of the British things that are a part of my life. So, please click on the following link and listen to one of my favorite songs from my youth: The Cure's Friday I'm in Love. I'll be linking to other New Wave songs every week to accompany the post, but I thought it appropriate to start this British Friday series with a sweet TGIF song. Cherrio!

(Albums, clockwise from top left: Depeche Mode - Violator; Elvis Costello - Punch the Clock; Eurythmics - Touch; The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me; Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's; Duran Duran - Rio)