Rate Your Music score: 3.66 out of 5!
Shh! Naked!
This lost hit was a memorable one, but I'm giving it an entry for one reason and one reason only. It's because the singer in this band tried to sound like Paul McCartney!
In fact, the first time I heard this song, I actually thought it was Paul. I was 10, and I had just gotten a new bedroom, which was tiny. I had the clock radio on - back when clock radios were actually easy to use. This song came on.
And I thought it was Paul McCartney!
That was back in the days when Paul kept doing ridiculous duets with Michael Jackson. After all, lots of performers had goofy duets back then. But I was surprised there'd be a new Paul McCartney single coming out so soon after "Say Say Say." I was even more surprised to discover it wasn't Paul, but Naked Eyes.
Naked Eyes were best known for their version of "Always Something There To Remind Me", a well-known song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. I recalled that a few months earlier, Marilyn McCoo performed that song on Solid Gold. I burst out laughing because of the spacey keyboard in the chorus. Fast-forward to 19:30...
Also, around 1983-84, there was a lot of fine music I didn't appreciate then. Much of this was because of some personal experiences I had during the preceding couple years that just stuck in my craw. I also fretted that Men At Work were being unfairly prevented from charting higher. But, along with 1978-79, that era actually had some of the best music ever.
I started appreciating music more in 1984, thinking much of it was strangely funny or some sort of spectacle. For a long time, I couldn't figure out why, but someone told me it must have been because there were so many goofy videos on MTV then. Much of popular culture was built around music videos, and it emerged in weird ways.
It just goes to show the influence of mass media!
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