Old Enough to Forget

I'd often confuse Doctor & the Medics with Dead or Alive. Honestly they weren't really all that similar, but then again I'm easily confused and easily distracted ... oh, look at squirrel. Where was I? Bananarama ...  Nah, just kidding, mostly. I was out of town recently and I figured I'd look for a record shop, and I managed to find a really fun and quirky little shop. They didn't have a lot of discount records, but they had a few boxes and the guy who ran the store was a treat to shoot the shit with. Heck while we were there my buddy Olav figured he'd buy me a record too. So he did. I'll get to that one in time: BB Gabor. You may know him, he did "Nyet Nyet Soviet (Soviet Jewellery)" back in 1980. Don't worry I didn't know him either, but that is a pretty good song. I'm sure you're wondering when I'll get to the point, and I'll admit I've wandered off a little further than normal. I found a few treasures and among t...

Um. I couldn't help myself, it was there in a clearance bin and I did like their cover of "Spirit In The Sky" which was a pretty spot on version of Norman Greenbaum's classic. I picked this up fully expecting to have a field day and make a lot of pithy comments, and more of less beat a dead horse. This was a band I didn't know what to do with at time. Looking at the cover images now I can't tell if they were going after a Boy George vibe or exaggerating Robert Smith from The Cure but with more make up and a lot more hair. Listening to it now, I actually feel kind of bad as I missed out on a pretty solid '80s album that was a lot more than it appeared to be. I've played this through a couple of times now, and this really is a solid album. I'll still single out "Spirit in the Sky" as the best song on the album, but it's not a case of killer and filler. They set 'em up and knocked 'em down. I had to go to the ever reliable and ac...