Hi, it's me again. This morning, I woke up with a song in my head that I heard millions of times on the radio but that I never knew the name of. It's one of those 4-5 songs where I always wanted to find ou the name, but I always forgot about it. But today, I actually had the song stuck in my head long enough to think about it and type the few pieces of the lyrics I could remember into Google.
It wound up being
Kayleigh by Marillion. With the accompanying music video for maximum schmaltz effect.
This song is one of those singles that were big in the UK and Europe but were virtually ignored overseas. In other words, it has become a 80s staple on mainstream radio over here while most of you American folks have probably never heard of it. Yeah, it's very cheesy and sits uncomfortably between oversized stadium rock, synth pop and new wave, but that's the Eighties for ya! The lyrics even begin with "Do you remember chalk hearts melting on the playground wall". Hilarious. I'd probably hate it if the radio hadn't made it part of my childhood. Anyway, it's now stuck in my head, presumably for the next few weeks.
Interestingly, one of the 4-5 songs I mentioned above that I already discovered is
Wind Him Up by Saga, which is another Europe-only hit by a supposed progressive rock band that in reality made bombastic schmaltzy synth rock. Fun times.