Old Enough to Forget

The year was 1982, and my nineteen-year-old self was still a couple of years away from getting into the European-tinged pop that would eventually start expanding my musical palate. Haircut One Hundred is a band I appreciate a lot more now than my younger self would have. The catchy "Love Plus One" appears on a lot of '80s compilations for good reason - it's a great song. I'm saying this now, but if you'd asked me the other day, I'd have drawn a blank. I'd gone into Krazy Bob's looking for a specific album (still can't find it) and got to chatting with Bob. We got on the subject of British new wave. He asked me if I had any Haircut One Hundred. I said I knew the name but couldn't recall any of their stuff. "What about Nick Heyward?" he asked. Again, I knew the name but was drawing a blank on anything specific. I know he's on a compilation somewhere in the library in the studio, but knowing and knowing aren't the same. So he...