Old Enough to Forget

There was always something strangely appealing to "The Captain of Her Heart" when this came out in '85. It was right at the height of everything cool about the '80s, and then there would be these occasional outliers that would hit the radio. When Sade hit with "Smooth Operator" I was in the minority of people who couldn't stand the song. Although I suspect this has softened over the years, my initial reaction when I hear her name still isn't positive. At. All. So it's odd that I clicked with Double, but not really. I had gotten into Michael Franks, starting with Skin Dive in '85, and it wasn't normally the sort of thing I listened to, but it was kind of cool. From there I'd pick up a few of his albums, and really liked The Art of Tea from 1975 and the song "Popsicle Toes," which kind of surprised me, considering my general happy place was rock. Double had some similar elements. I guess I'm just trying to show that I...