Shine On!

I have a feeling that when I'm 76 and sitting in a nursing home (preferably in a levitating wheelchair), waiting for Merciful Death's sweet embrace, I still will have the "Leon Neon" TV jingle in my head. "What is 'Leon Neon'?" you may ask. It was some sort of toy in the 1980s. I never saw it in the stores, I never held it in my hands, but darned if I could try forcing the jingle out of my head!

X-Entertainment excellently deconstructs the commercial itself, but the flowing refrains and effervescent pop hooks - something of a bizarre cross between Madonna's "Lucky Star" and Kraftwerk - will continue their slog across my neurons for years to come:

Shine on! Leon Neon!
Shine on! Leon Neon!

Bend them, put them together! (All right!)
Twirl them, hang 'em on your ears! (Tubular!)
Twist them... (That's hot!) ...Leon Neon's here!

(Repeat chorus and fade.)
11:16 PM 14 Mar 2004

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Hmm, that does sound oddly familiar. but i can't remember the chorus. the screenshots do remind me of that infectious 80's Wham video, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" --with its flourescent black-light face-paint effects. I wonder if that was before or after Leon Neon?

- june 04:31 PM 15 Mar 2004

hi there, found this site browsing thru LYD. I totally remember that jingle! I think I even got my mom to get me some of those but never enough to cover myself AND my guitar up and play in the dark.

- kristin 09:03 PM 16 Mar 2004

I remember that song. Totally annoying and funny at the same time. Shine on Leon Neon. I even named one of my art works after it. Check it out on my site. So hilarious that I found this afterwards! Shine on yáll!

- mackan 10:08 AM 18 Apr 2004

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