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"You'd be overreacting if you think that I still hurt..."
If Peter Wolf is like the patron saint of lost hits, Paul Carrack would be like a venerable.
This tune was a rare highlight of 1988. As is usual when Paul Carrack is involved, there's lots to say about it. And it's not just because the album sleeve appears to show Paul urinating.
The song was so well-liked that someone once called up Power 94½ to declare that it was the "best song" they ever heard - but they inserted another word between "best" and "song." I never heard the particular DJ who was on the air that evening again.
I think someone in high school had the LP on cassette. Maybe it was a different LP by someone else, but I think it was this one. One day, the tape was sitting on a table at lunch. The principal saw the list of songs on it, and he asked, "These are songs?" These tracks had such unbelievably wacky titles as "Don't Shed A Tear" and "When You Walk In The Room."
"Button Off My Shirt" is also notable because it uses the word overreacting. I heard that word a lot, because I was always accused of "overreacting" to adverse situations, even though I actually underreacted. It went something like this...
"Today at school, somebody punched me in the face, so I said, 'Please don't punch me in the face anymore.'"
"TIM, YOU'RE OVERREACTING!!!!!!!!!!"
The song also had a version by Ronnie Milsap that was a big hit on country stations...
Now you know the legend of one of the greatest songs to fill the airwaves in 1988!
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