Rate Your Music score: 3.04 out of 5!
I mentioned once before that Chicago had many lost hits that peaked at #14, but this one managed to fall just 2 notches shy.
A few months ago, our online museum of lost hits profiled "Stay The Night" by Benjamin Orr and how one of my teachers crusaded against this song. Several people said they remembered that lost hit, and they also recalled that Chicago had a lost hit titled "Stay The Night."
Indeed they did.
This was one of these from that time frame that I thought was somehow funny but I just can't remember why. A lot of good music from the preceding year or so just wasn't appreciated as it should have been. On the other hand, a lot of music 4 or 5 years later aggravated the living hell out of me, but with good reason. The 1984-85 period was sort of a sweet spot for me - before life really went to hell. And did it ever.
That was also before visuals associated with music devolved into a trite, ridiculous spectacle that made you wish you could peel off all the banana stickers you stuck under the kitchen table and use them to tape your eyes shut. In 1984, music videos may have been at their peak of popularity and creativity. Chicago's "Stay The Night" had an action-packed video that would never be made today. These days, we're bombarded with demands that the government censor TV programming deemed too "violent." But TV in 1984 was far more violent - i.e., exciting - than it is now.
Peep the video above. When I saw this clip in my youth, I noticed something interesting during the shots of the exploding pickup truck. At 3:53, there appears to be a body swirling around in the fireball.
But, now that v-chips are mandatory in TV sets, nobody uses them. A new TV costs an extra $15 for a feature no one uses.
Also, one article said Peter Cetera did most of the stunts in this video himself instead of hiring a stunt double.
Keep your eyes peeled for more lost hits! No one can stop us, nothing is in the way!
No comments:
Post a Comment