I feel this is an important comment to highlight in regards to 5 Things I Love About Wendy & Lisa and how you can find your way back on the path to their music if you got lost.

Finally, how I feel about Wendy and Lisa can be best summed up on how anyone feels about their family. You can still love a person (or people) but may not like everything they do. Just like in real life, you may not understand what some of your family members are doing and why they’re doing it. You may even wander away from your family for years, but it doesn’t mean you don’t still love them. When you finally see/talk to that family member after a long time apart, you realize how much you both have grown and changed over the years. What you didn’t understand about them then, you might finally be at a place in your life when you get them. That’s me when it comes to Wendy and Lisa. I finally get their music and yes, realize how much my own enforced distance made me miss out on what everyone else got.

-@thehivemind-

If you were lost like I was, come home to White Flags of Winter Chimneys.

One of my brothers recently told me, “You know what? I believe you liked Wendy and Lisa more than you did Prince back in the day.” I merely smiled and laughed. I then said, “You’re probably right.”

I have special memories of Wendy and Lisa while growing up, and I have my own reasons why I love the super duo. Here’s a few:

1. Girl Rockers Rule…Especially if You’ve Never Seen Any Before

As I kid growing up the 80s, I wasn’t exposed to many “girl rockers” in the beginning. I didn’t have MTV at the time, so I caught music videos on some generic local channel that played videos sometimes. Other than Joan Jett, I didn’t see any other female rockers playing instruments…until I spotted Lisa in Prince’s “1999″ video playing keyboards. While I was fascinated by all of the members in Prince’s pre-Revolution band, Lisa drew my attention the most. She sung on the record; she played keyboards; she dressed in “cool clothes,” and she rocked! Of course, I didn’t understand why the “blond looking Madonna chick” was dancing up close to Lisa while she played keyboards, but I remember always watching out for Lisa every time that video or “Little Red Corvette” came on.

When I first saw the video for “When Doves Cry,” I was introduced to Wendy for the first time via my TV. I immediately thought two things:

1. Where was the dude with the Karate Kid-looking headband?
2. The new guitarist is a girl…wow! Cool! (more…)