Old Enough to Forget

I'd not listened to this in a long, long time. My memories of this are mostly warm and fuzzy except for "Bad Is Bad," a song that to me was true to its title. My buddy back in the day would go on about how "Ghostbusters" and "I Want a New Drug" were the same song ... I know there's a feel in the bass or the melody or something. I suppose there was enough merit to warrant a settlement, but to me all I heard was a gaggle of chicks shouting "Ghostbusters" over and over. I found it irritating, and now it's nostalgic, go figure - and for all that I still can't hear it. The album was huge and it seemed to hang around a long time. I suppose that was due more to the fact that it was released in the fall of '83 and didn't really seem to take off until the spring of '84, and the band kept mining singles for almost a year. Just when you thought they'd gotten all they could out of it, they managed to find another single (this ...

Whoever owned this before me wrote "Bumpers" in black felt pen on the front of the album, on the back cover, and on both sides of the record itself. So yeah, it was a pain in the ass trying to figure out how to remove most of the ink. I was pretty proud of myself, in that I was able to make it hardly visible on the front and back of the jacket. I had a defaced Wishbone Ash album, I applied my newfound knowledge and proceeded to nearly ruin the cover. Anyway, I dropped the dollar because I wanted to get "Cruel to Be Kind," a song I knew from back in the day, and if there was more than one good song it was all bonus. After all, it's not like I had a lot of his stuff. Although I was super close to picking up Rockpile's Seconds of Pleasure when it came out. My only other point of reference was Party of One back in 1990 because I really liked "All Men Are Liars," which still cracks me up, and that's the truth. Oddly enough, the guys he'd later...