Old Enough to Forget

Mr. Mister was huge ... then they weren't. Here in Canada, the band's previous album Welcome to the Real World went triple platinum, moving over 300,000 units. That's a lot of music per capita, and I did my part by buying a record. I remember waiting for the follow-up album ... and I don't know how I missed it. I suppose part of the problem was I didn't hear anything on the radio or see a video on Much Music. My sense of object permanence is kind of ... oooh, a squirrel. In the fall of 1987, Mr. Mister released Go On ... and while I may have missed the boat, others didn't, and the album would still go gold in Canada (50,000). The band's music would also appear in a few soundtracks, from Stand and Deliver and Stakeout to ... and I am absolutely positive they had a song in the Patrick Dempsey movie Can't Buy Me Love . I'm certain of it. Don't ask me why I remember that, or why I saw it in the theatre, but not what I had for breakfast. "Sta...