Old Enough to Forget

Pablo Cruise as a band name always confused me. Like Pink Floyd, and to a lesser extent (way, way more lesser) Daniel Amos, they suffered from having fans ask, "Which one is Pink?" Somewhere in my early teenage brain I figured Pablo Cruise was a guy who looked like a cross between Sergio Aragones and "Gold Hat" from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , exclaiming he didn't need no stinkin' badges. He would be wearing a black charro outfit, singing "Guantanamera," and between sets would be passing out drinks with little umbrellas. So you can imagine where I was trying to fit them musically. Of course, with the passage of time I've heard a couple of their bigger hits like "Whatcha Gonna Do?" and "Love Will Find a Way," and given my penchant for '70s cheese, I was always kind of curious about the band. As fate would have it, I managed to find A Place in the Sun and Worlds Away in the unloved section of one of my favourite r...