Me and radio during the middle of my university years in the 1980s? There are three songs that have stood out since that decade. One was Anita Baker's "Sweet Love". I didn't know anything about the music sub-genre term Quiet Storm back then, but there was just that urban contemporary sophistication in Ms. Baker's magnum opus that could put a tuxedo onto an elephant and make him worthy for a date on the town. I remember the opening episode of Season 3 of "Moonlighting" simply because "Sweet Love" made an appearance at the end.
The second song was Level 42's "Something About You" which was a totally different animal that still managed to burrow and wind around my cerebral cortex (yeah, "Star Trek II" reference here). I think it was the slip of technopop and that goodly amount of funk in there. It would have made for an excellent theme song for a strange but amenable sitcom. Both of these tunes were such earworms that I always wished that they would show up on the radio every time I had it on.
Ahh...radio in the 1980s. Those were good times.
Good evening J-C, and thanks for the flashback ! My girlfriend in the very early 90's loved Hiroshima and I still have a bunch of CDs (somewhere) from them ... along with Shang Shang Typhoon they were my first encounter of Asian/Western fusion or whatever you want to call this chill-out mix. I was going to school at night and would get back around midnight; we'd pop something like this on and unwind ..... good times I'd forgotten. Thank you ;)
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DeleteI think you hit the nail on the head about "One Wish"; it's definitely an unwind song...as in putting this one into the player after a hard day. Would be nice to hear something like this in contemporary music again.