Men at Work’s Business as Usual and Michael Jackson’s Thriller are the first two cassettes I bought. Almost every album advertised here is now a classic:
Missing Persons’ debut, Spring Session M (“Walking in L.A.”, “Destination Unknown”); The Clash’s Combat Rock (“Rock the Casbah”)—I bought this one too; Marvin Gaye’s Midnight Love (“Sexual Healing”); Foreigner’s “best of” compilation Records; Culture Club’s debut, Kissing to Be Clever (“I’ll Tumble 4 Ya”, “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?”); Led Zeppelin’s final album, Coda.
I also see Neil Diamond’s Heartlight, which I got (with my dad’s money) my mom for Christmas that year. The title track—inspired by E.T.—is easily one of the worst songs ever recorded.
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I remember the song, but until I just watched part of the vidoe (and can we have a separate discussion about the hair?), I never had any idea about the ET over tones. Of course I was only 7 at the time.
I was about 12 when the song “Heartlight” was popular. At first I didn’t really pay much attention to it, then suddenly it dawned on me: heartlight + young boy = E.T. When I tried to convince my mom, she figured it was just a coincidence because Neil Diamond wouldn’t do something cheesy like that.