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Donnie - Iris - Back on the Streets

Sometimes you pick up an album just to satisfy the earworm you can't get rid of. Now, to be upfront, the first album I bought from Donnie Iris was his 1982 release The High and the Mighty -  an album I found about a year ago. I played it a few times and enjoyed myself, but as I sit here listening to Back on the Streets , I can't recall any of the songs from it. This isn't really a shot; it's more reflective of my underdeveloped sense of object permanence. I have the same problem trying to remember more than a couple of the songs off the three Tommy Tutone albums I have - and I like those albums. Other than "867-5309/Jenny" and the forgotten hit from their debut, "Angel Say No," I couldn't name another song. All of their albums were decent, just not especially memorable. Unless a song gets buried deep into my subconscious, there's a good chance I'll more often than not experience a wonderful Groundhog Day moment when I play an album I'...