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In the mid-1980s, music-related media even had an influence on Dungeons & Dragons!
"Go Insane" is part of a group of lost hits from that time - such as "Are We Ourselves?" by the Fixx and "Along Comes A Woman" by Chicago - that tried to sound like Devo, even though Devo was past their peak by then. That time frame also represented a confluence of music videos, Atari BASIC, and Dungeons & Dragons.
We came up with a list of 100 curses to use in a Dungeons & Dragons session. They were numbered from 00 to 99 and were randomly determined by rolling the 10-sided dice twice. These curses could be cast on an adversary.
This was all fantasy, of course. It was only a game. Nothing real about it. You put the dice and books away, and it was gone.
The curses grew increasingly ridiculous as you went down the list. Curse #48 made a 10-foot-tall Sesame Street sign grow out of a person's head - because Channel 48 is one of our local PBS stations. Curse #57 made Heinz 57 sauce constantly shoot out the person's ears. My personal favorite curse was "arms control selves."
After seeing Lindsey Buckingham's "Go Insane" video, I came up with a curse for this list: The person's head would turn into a globe and spin endlessly - just as in the video. Best all, it would take place in public, for maximum humiliation. Not to be outdone, another curse was added in which the person's head would turn into a replica of the Liberty Bell.
"Go Insane" also had a link with my interest in computer programming. I remember a story on American Top 40 in which it was reported that the music for this track was stored on a floppy disk.
"Go Insane" may well be the mid-'80s manifest!
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