Old Enough to Forget

I bought this when it came out for one song, "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades," and by golly, it was a dang good song. There was something really cool about the song with the sterile drum programming and the wicked harmonica. I always thought this was a huge hit, and the one time I watched Head of the Class , the song was featured on the episode. Apparently, it was a moderate hit, but it certainly stuck with me. Oddly, this album has been joined at the hip with the Georgia Satellites' debut album, as I remember picking them both up the same day. I also remember being disappointed with both albums after harvesting the shiny songs for my mixtapes. I was probably harder on this one, though. The album charged out with the two best songs on the album, the aforementioned sunglasses song and "Life Is Hard," a song that felt to me like a companion piece to David & David's "Boomtown," and after that I just ran out of steam trying to get ...