Year: 1981
There are a few Simple Minds songs that are more well known than this, but hardly any that match Love Song in roughness. The video is hardly a masterpiece, however time typical.
My older brother had a big party on his 18th birthday this year (our parents were off to some event or something, leaving the big down-town apartment completely in our care..), where I was allowed to be present, if I promised not to be in the way and not to tell Mom about the party. This song was probably played 30 times during the evening. When the party came to an end we discovered that someone had stolen a wall mounted revolver, a souvenir from the Finnish-Soviet winter war (1939-1940).
Mom was not happy and the revolver was never recovered.
Memory pool
So what makes a song from this era important? I could argue that all songs are sublime compositions or that the videos are ground breaking, but it wouldn't be true. Closer to the truth would be: "because I think so".
Get your daily 80's fix and, if you like, share some of your memories with the rest of us.
See you!
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P.S. In case you have any of the videos on the list in a decent quality, I
would appreciate if you get in touch with me.
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