Department S - I Want

Department S - I Want. 3rd and best Department S single. Made Number 1 in Europe but did nothing in UK.

Lyrics:

Oh God I want Christmas all year 'round
I want a swimming pool I don't want to drown
I want a lot of money but I don't wanna pay taxes
Unless it's just a penny in the pound

I want a mini cooper, immune to endorsements
I want a place in the country and a penthouse apartment
I want a yacht to sail, I want a pass on British rail
Guaranteed with my own compartment

I'm not begging, but I'm asking
I'm not giving, but I'm receiving
I'm not taking but if you're listening
This is everything I've been wanting

I want to be happy for the rest of my life
I want to die but not by the knife
I want to sleep all afternoon
I want to rise at night with the moon

I want a daughter without the wife
I want Marilyn Monroe
Painted by Warhol
Reincarnated Jean Harlow

I want the style of De Niro
I want to get out of this place
I want to see your face
Until then Amen, I gotta go

I'm not begging, but I'm asking
I'm not giving, but I'm receiving
I'm not taking but if you're listening
This is everything I've been wanting

Toulouse/Herbage

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Department
• Want

[MsGORGONS]

Actually DEPARTMENT S is way more exciting than the JAM. Maybe seeing the JAM in a club in Soho back in 77 woulda been exciting...but what's the crap with all the UNION JOKES and shit...I never got that...TRANSGLOBAL EXPRESS is OK...retrospectively. DEPARTMENT S they draw a strange aura...very LONDON...seedy and exciting. I think VAUGHN sucked cocks but hey...you have to find something good to do during the long boring and endless sundays in grey Londinium...That's just as good a hobby as GOLF!

[departments2006]

A sentiment I feel sure Toulouse would have agreed with!

[loftusroadw12]

If my memory serves me this was the flip side to "is vic there" as the weeks went by this was the track I played

[departments2006]

"I Want" was the 3rd Dept S single. Solid Gold Easy Action was the B-Side of 'Vic'. This single was a European Number 1.

[vivhorne]

That should have SOOOOOOO been a hit! (fab hostess by the way..)

[departments2006]

Very cute Hostess I seem to remember :)

[lukesoiseth]

GREAT! 

[mlatamlata]

:D awesome !!!

[arribabundesband]

wow, forgotten for some 30 years or so, and straight out of my memory this evening ... great time, great music, those were the days !

[pollmeister]

LOVE IT! Bouight it when it came out. Still have it. Agreed it was thier best single

[357982]

Great song..Heard it on the post punk progressive pop party on wvhc Hofstra Univ.( I think.) College radio was great back then. So was the music scene..Amazing new music was coming out weekly. I miss those days!

[MsGORGONS]

I can;t get enough of this...so way out there with the best of the best...what a presence...what a track...it brings back (good) memories of eigthies London as well...vibrant and passionate.

[dogsbreath101]

@departments2006

Are you a Guy?

[visthespoon]

Oi ! Oi ! DEPARTMENT S play The Wilmington Arms in London TONIGHT !!! Saturday 29th May - 69 Rosebery Ave, EC1R 4RL. 4 original members with original keyboard payer Eddie Roxy taking on the vocals... very well apparently ! on stage about 10pm

[ddavies1967]

Superb. And I thought they were a one hit wonder. Really surprising that they didn't do more in the UK, perhaps 'Vic' wasn't the best choice for 1st single, given Britain's disdain for 'novelty' records. 'She Blinded Me With Science' had the same effect on Thomas Dolby's career. Great, tight band though, very impressive. I'm not a drummer but he looks pretty sharp. Thanks for another excellent YT posting.