PS

Still a great video. Considering it was made in the 80s, that's saying a lot.


(Or try this live version where everyone, Paul included, is having an awesome time.)


And my favourite Paul Simon song. The first time Trevor Payne played this for us in Cegep I just about fell out of my chair. The drums! The horns! On a good stereo it comes across like a Phil Spector Wall of Sound.

more 80s on sale

Come on. You know you need Billy Joel's Glass Houses. "Hot funk, cool punk, even if it's old junk--it's still rock n' roll to me."





Or Paul Simon's Graceland?

80s

With the arrival of the internets, have you ever suddenly come across a song that you had completely forgotten you once LURBED? I'm sampling an old Tina Turner live album that I loved as a teenager, and came across this duet with Eric Clapton:



Of course, nothing tops her Bryan Adams duet. Those two had a really rare electricity together. Sexual chemistry, but also just great theatrics. Awesome. AWWWEsome.


Speaking of the 80s, iTunes is having an 80s sale. So I finally caved and bought the Traveling Wilburys album I've been eyeing since it came out. Now there's an example of something I didn't even care for in the 80s, but I seem to have grown into. I suppose it was inevitable since my dad raised us on ELO. I've got the Lynne sound burned in my music-psyche.



And finally, another of my forgotten-faves, from Men at Work: