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Dwight Twilley - Jungle

Apparently Dwight Twilley had been around a while before I picked up Jungle back in '84. "Girls" was a song that got under my skin, not under my skin as in being irritating, I meant under my skin in a good way - yeah I should have just deleted this and started again, but I feel like I should commit to it, and just push through - hopefully this isn't getting under your skin. Having Tom Petty singing along certainly didn't hurt. It was an album chock full of pop goodness, what I would later come to associate with power pop. There was a certain rawness to the songs that hearkened back to the late '70s first wave of new wave. The album was pretty decent, and I always thought "Why You Wanna Break My Heart" should have been a hit, instead we got to hear Tia Carrere butcher the shit out of it in the movie Wayne's World, and then again when they put it again on Wayne's World: Music from the Motion Picture . Sigh, the same soundtrack Gary Wright figur...