“Catch me I’m Falling” by Pretty Poison is the song you rocked out to between Otter Pops and ollie attempts on your Vision skateboard back in 1987. It was also featured in Hiding Out starring John Cryer which you probably haven’t seen, and with good reason. The directors of the video inadvertently created an 80′s time capsule with this video just in case you’ve forgotten what the 80′s looked like, but if you read this blog regularly, there’s no way that could be possible. If only they could release this on laser-disc…

Ahhhh, yes, Breathe. I’m not sure if it’s the fact that I grew up a severe asthmatic and I love irony that makes me appreciate them, or because they gave us the hits “Hands To Heaven” and “How Can I Fall” off of their 1988 album All That Jazz.

I’m sure you remember this one, but it is probably only until hearing it now that you realize deep down how awesome the song “Hands To Heaven” is unless perhaps a talented friend of yours has done it for karaoke. Any song containing the lyrics “There’s so much tenderness in your loving” (go ahead, say something like “There’s so much crappyness in your singing” and see if your comment gets posted) and a requisite 80′s saxophone solo deserves to be played over and over and over again.

I have also observed from reading the Wikipedia entry (linked above) on the group that lead singer David Glasper has a MySpace page, and after watching this video, I don’t see how you could feel complete without him as a friend in the realm of social networking….

http://youtube.com/watch?v=locRDFcIuiY

I was nearly brought to a violent rage early this morning upon discovering that although the Universal Music Group had been kind enough to post a high quality video of 1985′s Oh Sheila by Ready For the World on YouTube, they had disabled the embedding function for the video, so you’ll have to do with just a link to it.

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You know, I see it as my duty to remind you of things from time to time because I’m a smart ass and that’s why you love me. Or it’s because I buy you stuff. Moving along, if we are not reminded, history is destined to repeat itself and we’ve all seen the unfortunate consequences of that, namely the “flipped-up collar” look still rearing it’s ugly, 80′s head in my neighborhood. May the lessons of time be kinder where you are.

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