Old Enough to Forget

I was feeling a bit bummed out, so I went to the basement looking for something to raise my mood from shitty to something just slightly less than grumpy. I riffled through the albums that were in my "pending listen-to pile," and there was Zappacosta's 1984 self-titled release. This was an album I always meant to buy when it came out, and never did. Don't know why, I just didn't. "Passion" was a song that melded all the great elements of early '80s pop, and even the follow-up single "We Should Be Lovers" was great. When I was looking through a discount bin and saw a decent-looking copy with pristine vinyl, it was finally time to pick up the album. Like Paul Janz, Zappacosta built pop songs around his ability to carry a song through the power of his voice. The album kicks off with "Passion," and while the song is very much of its time, it's still a great listen and propels the album through a series of familiar and very strong s...