Though ’80s mainstream radio seemed to become increasingly dominated by synth pop and such as the decade wore on, I do remember digging certain songs that in retrospect seem rather incongruous, simply by virtue of being non-trendy standard old school rock ‘n’ roll. The Smithereens’ “A Girl Like You” (released in 1990, but I’ll consider it ’80s since it came out before grunge hit), holds up pretty well even today, to my ears. I was glad to find I could still enjoy it without reservations, unlike what sometimes happens when I revisit old top-40 likes that turn out to have been slightly cheesadelic.
Anyone familiar with their catalog? I remember being fairly lukewarm at the time about the rest of 11, the album this was from, but I would have to assume there’s some goodness elsewhere amongst their stuff.
They had the hits Blood and Roses and Only a Memory before this album. I liked both of those songs, good examples of decent, well written hard-rock/pop songs with cool vocal arrangements. I’m not familiar with the deep tracks from those albums. They struck me as kind of formulaic but hey, who isn’t and if you have a good formula to start with, then all the better.
Oh hey! I remember hearing this on the radio when I was about 10. I probably never would have heard/thought about/remembered this song again if it hadn’t been for this post. . .
And that’s all I have to say about that! Sorry Conor :/
EDIT: No it’s not. Turtleneck in a music video: what were they thinking?
I love them.They’re all about the riff. Green Thoughts is more than worthy.