Old Enough to Forget

I'd not listened to this in a long, long time. My memories of this are mostly warm and fuzzy except for "Bad Is Bad," a song that to me was true to its title. My buddy back in the day would go on about how "Ghostbusters" and "I Want a New Drug" were the same song ... I know there's a feel in the bass or the melody or something. I suppose there was enough merit to warrant a settlement, but to me all I heard was a gaggle of chicks shouting "Ghostbusters" over and over. I found it irritating, and now it's nostalgic, go figure - and for all that I still can't hear it. The album was huge and it seemed to hang around a long time. I suppose that was due more to the fact that it was released in the fall of '83 and didn't really seem to take off until the spring of '84, and the band kept mining singles for almost a year. Just when you thought they'd gotten all they could out of it, they managed to find another single (this ...