Old Enough to Forget

Loverboy dropped their sophomore album in the fall of 1981 and cemented their place among Canadian rock royalty. (It's a small club, but a club nonetheless.) The first two songs on their debut are classics, but for years I didn't really connect with the rest of that album. It felt like mostly filler back then - and honestly, it still does, but I'm more forgiving now. However, the follow-up, Get Lucky , was something altogether different. They delivered a masterclass in pop/rock that would polarize kids all over the country into two camps: "This rocks!" / "This sucks!" This was decades before Nickelback would take over the mantle of most divisive band in the land. I will publicly apologize to my old dear friend Steve Little, who loved "Gangs in the Streets." Just after the album came out, a bunch of us were hanging out, and Steve had his little cassette player and seemed to be playing this song and Gary Numan's "Cars" over and over...