Old Enough to Forget

Hooters released their follow-up to Nervous Night in the summer of 1987. It hadn't seemed like two years between albums. When the album dropped, I picked it up right away. I really don't recall my reaction at the time. I do know I immediately pulled "Satellite" off the album as my favourite track, and it ended up on a lot of mix tapes. There were a couple of other songs that I liked too, but I'll admit to having shelved the album pretty quickly after hearing the highlights and giving it a few spins. It was a damning judgment, but this was 1987 and I was getting so much music that my attention span was pretty short. However, there was always something about the band I liked, and I would pick up their next album, Zig Zag , in '89, and then I would more or less lose track of the band. Getting back to One Way Home , I will say that it's been a hoot (sorry) getting to hear this again. Now, I do have this on CD, but finding a pretty mint copy of the record was t...

I suppose now is as good a time as any to say thank you to Cyndi Lauper, as without her number one "Time After Time" featuring Rob Hyman on the counter vocal, I wonder if Hooters would have been signed to Columbia Records. Fast forward a couple of years and a familiar voice is singing "All You Zombies," and it's a jaw-dropping moment. It was a perplexing song to a lot of people - especially kids who weren't used to hearing a song about the Book of Exodus, or more likely, the guys in the band were simply fans of Cecil B. DeMille and figured pairing Moses in a song with zombies would sound cool - it did. I remember a lot of people wondering if the guys were a Christian band or something. Didn't matter. The song rocked, and if it didn't make any sense, so what? I bought the album, then lost the album - bought the CD, kept the CD, and then when my wife wasn't looking bought the album again because I wanted to. I will also admit that on occasion I can...