Old Enough to Forget

Back in 1984, I knew this band from the video for "Tenderness" that seemed to be on whenever I turned on the television to watch MuchMusic. Admittedly, it was a catchy song, but that was as far as it went. I mean, really, that year Van Halen crushed it with 1984 , and Toto dropped Isolation -  an album that was met with silence but was, to me, amazing and in heavy rotation most of the year. There were so many great albums that my taking a foray into English new-wave-laced with ska wasn't really on my radar. Still, I never forgot that one song. So last week I was diving in the bins, and there between a couple of Neil Diamond albums was All the Rage. Well, for a buck I was at least going to get one good song. The album was in iffy shape, but the jacket was okay, and the liner notes were gone. Now, having recently spent time with Haircut One Hundred, I was pretty much in the same neighbourhood as General Public. Curious, I looked the band up and there were a number of littl...