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Red 7 - Red 7

This was always a strange but wonderful record to me. The first two songs are so good, I mean not just good, they were exceptionally good songs. Even though the rest of the album would more often than not generally fall into "meh" territory, my impression of the album was always positive. This was a really good album. Michael Mann apparently really liked the band too as "Heartbeat" was used in his film "Manhunter" you know the one that featured Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter, and it was used again in an episode of Miami Vice. The song "Less Than Perfect" was used in the movie Explorers, I saw it (unlike almost everybody else as the movie tanked) but I don't remember the song being there, but it is a pretty good song. Anyway, this is going sideways, I try to get to the point. The year was 1985, and all the cool guys wore trench coats, and by the mid '80s we were right in the middle of the future - short of having flying cars and rocket pa...