DREAM POLICE BY CHEAP TRICK
This is one of those formative songs that I probably first
heard while wanting to go faster at the fair on the Music Express (to date
myself, it was still called the Jaguar at my amusement park when this song came
out).
I don’t know what to do with this video, but man, when I
heard this as a kid I loved it. This rocked my world. It was harder than most
of what I’d heard up to that point and made me feel cool and older (I was
really into being older when I was 10. What a little idiot I was). This period
of time was when my musical tastes were formed and bands like these guys,
Blondie, Van Halen, the B-52’s and the Go-Go’s, Joe Jackson, Pat Benatar, the
Rocky Horror soundtrack, and AC/DC were all part of the mix.
I religiously read Creem magazine and laughed hysterically at
their captions. I thought KISS was silly because I didn’t really get the makeup
and costumes and thought the Clash and Adam and the Ants were so totally cool. Except I
had never heard them and only seen pictures of them (this was before YouTube,
kids). I also went to see the Village People movie, “Can’t Stop the Music,”
when I was 10 and thought it was great so you maybe get an idea of where my 10
year old self was at.
You know that talk is cheap and those rumors ain't nice:
They’re driving me insane, those men inside my brain:
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