Old Enough to Forget

On his third solo effort in 1985 Robert Plant pulled out all the stops, loaded up the synthecheesisizer, threw in a kitchen sink and pressed record. It's funny how at the time Robert Plant seemed like some old dude who'd been around forever and was enjoying a career resurgence with his solo career. He was re-inventing himself as an artist who took chances and wasn't afraid to embrace new trends. His previous album The Principle of Moments from 1983 had some killer songs on the radio that I liked and found irritating at the same time. Oddly enough when the Honeydrippers EP dropped it was massive, and there was something endearing about "Sea of Love" and this seemed to earn him a lot of goodwill with me as when Shaken 'n' Stirred came out I was intrigued by the video for "Little by Little" and really enjoyed the song. My old roommate Otto and I had pretty similar tastes in music, and he bought the CD and I think I played it once and dismissed it ...