Old Enough to Forget

When Special Forces dropped in '82 I snapped it up. Right off the bat the band was kicking in the door and "Caught Up in You" became my second favourite song by the band. The rest of the album then sort of settled into a groove as one decent but not especially memorable song after another played. My favourite was still "Hold on Loosely," man I loved that song. I also had no idea that it was a big deal, I just knew that the song was amazing. We had limited radio when I was a kid up north, and unless it was word of mouth or something I'd read about when browsing the magazines I was pretty sheltered. Special Forces , though, was interesting. Some of the songs were goofy, "Back Door Stranger" probably isn't a thinly veiled play on words. If it was it was way more subtle than Deep Purple was when they were singing about knocking on a back door. No, that wasn't a typo. Now, while I'm being casually dismissive of the songs as being perfunctor...