Old Enough to Forget

Ah, the '80s. Right about '84, things were hitting the sweet spot for me musically. I remember a buddy playing me a mixtape that had "No More Words" on it, and I asked, "Who is that?" I liked synth-pop with the big guitars and all that, but I never got around to getting this album. Of course, a couple of years later, after Top Gun came out, everyone knew "Take My Breath Away," a song that put the band in the upper echelons for a little while. Sadly, it was also a song written for the band by Giorgio Moroder, who had a killer touch with soundtracks in particular, and it pretty much overshadowed anything they did before and after. The other day I was bin rummaging, and there, in between the ever-present badly scratched Rod Stewart albums (I think people do it on purpose), was a decent-looking copy of Berlin's Love Life. "Ooooh," I said to myself. I took out the vinyl, and it was just dusty and covered in fingerprints, but otherwise look...