1988 / #4
Rate Your Music score: 3.49 out of 5!
You knew this one was coming, didn't you?
You'd think a record that went all the way to #4 wouldn't be lost, but I can't even remember the last time I heard this song on regular radio, except maybe in an American Top 40 rebroadcast. Also, don't be confused by the YouTube link: Terence legally changed his name to Sananda Maitreya in 2001.
I'm profiling this lost hit because of the treatment it got from my high school sophomore class. We had an assignment in English class that was supposed to involve pop music somehow. Someone used the bridge of this song - specifically, the "shoo-bee-doo" background vocals - for their assignment. I can't remember any details of how the song was supposed to be used for this project. But for months after, people kept singing that bridge in a hilariously exaggerated manner.
It was like how everyone kept replacing words in songs with "baste." I remember "Armageddon It" by Def Leppard becoming "Armabastin' It." "Blame It On The Rain" by Milli Vanilli became "Blame It On The Baste."
That assignment was in the same class where a student kept loudly passing gas and another student told the teacher, "He's back here fartin' up a storm!" And it was the same class where I had a textbook that had been defaced because a guy in a photo looked like Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet.
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