"We Should Be Sleeping" by Eddie Money

1987 / #90

Rate Your Music score: 3.14 out of 5!

I don't always know what to think about Eddie Money. Sometimes I think he's an enjoyable listen, but at other times, I think these same songs are sort of juvenile.

For a song that only peaked at #90, we sure heard this one a lot back in 1987. When I say we heard it a lot, I mean it. Mean it like a dictionary, I do. An unabridged, no less!

We were entering a malaise of narrower playlists, and hearing all the same songs being played so much was tiring and frustrating. So it was bound to induce some ridicule.

I had just gotten a modem for my Atari 800. This was back in the days of the old dialup bulletin board systems. I wanted to be an elite hacker - like that guy who was obsessed with hacking Bruce Springsteen's phone. Anyway, I downloaded a few free computer games. That was the big thing back then.

One of these games - I don't even remember what it was called - consisted of flying some sort of spaceship or aircraft over a landscape and shooting down enemy forces. This game was interesting in that you could shoot off pieces of the mountains.

One day, we were playing this game while Eddie's "We Should Be Sleeping" was blaring on the radio. We flew over an unusually prominent mountain. It soared over the otherwise flat terrain. We began blasting chunks off this mountain and called it an "Eddie Money head."

Ever since then, if we see a mountain like this, we call it an "Eddie Money head."

We also downloaded a baseball game that used music that sounded like "The Candy Man."

Many years later, there was some movie about Pete Rose that appeared on cable TV in which the actor who played Pete actually bore a much stronger resemblance to Eddie Money. Also, in 2013, I went to a baseball game in Milwaukee where a man who worked in the stands looked just like Eddie Money. Some baseball fans sitting behind me even commented on it.