Two old classics, each with an eighties upbeat disco reboot. Just the way I like my old classics. The first is one of those songs that, when I hear it in my car, I have to act out what Kim Wilde did in the video when she says 'Get out, get outta my life and let me sleep at night' Anyone driving near me must be like, 'oh there’s that old homo reliving the eighties again…' Then there’s Venus. I remember its climb to Screamer of the Week on WLIR, thinking it was probably one of the best new wave dance songs I’d ever heard, not even knowing it was a cover of a classic. So why did these songs make my list? You tell me. Sadly the original video for Kim Wilde’s You Keep Me Hangin’ On doesn’t seem to be available on YouTube so I can’t post that version, but this version is as deliciously eighties. And then there’s Bananarama.
From the historical writing archive. Original date: November 7, 2017. Recovered from local source material; editorial review is still in progress.
