WARNING!
This video, like Wang Chung's Everybody Have Fun Tonight, may be seizure educing. It jumps between different shots every frame. Viewer discretion is advised.
Rob Jungklas is from Memphis. He had a moderate hit in 1986 called Make it Mean Something. It made it all the way to number 86 on the hot 100 charts. The album it came from, Closer to the Flame, made it to 102. This song? It didn't even hit the charts. Rob made one more album that didn't sell before calling it quits on the music business. He married, went to college, got job teaching English and science in a Memphis school. In 2001, he got the itch to record again, and since has put out 4 more albums.
This song follows the pattern of many in the jukebox. I heard it on MTV, because it didn't hit the charts. I first saw this video on a Sunday night/Monday morning, just after midnight. How do I know this? Because it aired on a show called 120 Minutes. It came on right after airings of the crass British sit-com, The Young Ones. And since I was recording the whole series of The Young Ones to my VCR for later viewing, and I liked the video so much, I kept it on there. And since I viewed that tape possibly hundreds of times, so too did I listen to the song hundreds of times.
Years later, that song haunted me. I remembered very little, outside the title and a couple lyrics. But after some hard searching, both through my mind, and the Internet, I found it. First, I found the video. Oh, my. What were Godley and Creme thinking? I needed a good MP3 copy for my collection. I wound up finding it at Rob's Bandcamp page. You, too can download a copy there, for free of for whatever you feel the man deserves. Either way, you will sign up for his email newsletter, but you can unsubscribe as soon as you want:
The song changes pace from verse to chorus and back. I'm a big change of pace guy, and here it is put together well. I've gone through twelve plays since I got this, and it still hasn't gotten old.
Selection B17 has no video, so I am linking to Rob's Bandcamp page for your listening pleasure. I like the song, but it may have to grow on me in order for me to play it more.
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