“Open Your Heart” by Madonna. There was a time when she wasn’t deathly skinny and British which are two things which seem to go hand in hand for some reason. No, there was a time, long ago, when you would throw down the “simon says” to sit mesmerized by her videos on MTV. One of which was “Open your heart”. I’m not sure whose idea it was to do a video about a minor in a peepshow (it was probably Madonna’s, actually), but I like it.

You’ve probably got this song on your iPod because like any respectable gen X or Y-er, there are two albums you couldn’t be without. One is Madonna’s Immaculate Collection. The other is the soundtrack to the movie “The Crow”. They are like warm blankets on a cold, cold night. Not only is “Open your heart” a good song (dogma), but the video is just as good, and every red-blooded American boy wanted to be the kid in this video after they saw it. Or, perhaps they wanted to be more like Madonna, but the point remains that this was a defining video, and is worthy of revisiting in an indulgent trip back to when there were videos on MTV, and I carried a lunch pail, not a man bag.