Scandal featuring Patty Smyth -- The Warrior

 

Shooting at the walls of heartache...bang, bang

I am the warrior! 😤 (from Lyric Find)

Time for another Reminiscings of Youth song. Another tune that has had me swooning for those old 1980s, I swear that "The Warrior" by Scandal featuring Patty Smyth became a daily tradition on those music video shows for weeks at a time following its release in June 1984. An afternoon didn't go by without the music video for this hit featuring Smyth slowly being transformed into one colourful were-something or other. I hadn't ever heard of Scandal nor Patty Smyth before "The Warrior", and I never heard of them again since that release of the single. But it doesn't matter because they immortalized themselves with this one.

Just imagine a rock song as an analogy for dystopian street battles...maybe this was one of the first examples. As one commenter on YouTube mentioned, "The Warrior" isn't just a hit rock song, it's an anthem for 80s music in general that was created by Holly Knight and Nick Gilder. Everything from the arrangement to Smyth's tough-as-nails delivery is legendary.

Of all the references to that decade of ours in current movies and television shows, wouldn't it be something for "The Warrior" to make its comeback to eyes and ears? It hit No. 1 on Canada's RPM charts and then No. 7 on America's Billboard. 

So, what were two songs to make their appearance on record shop shelves in June 1984?

Mari Iijima -- Ai Oboeteimasuka? （愛・おぼえていますか）

Southern All Stars -- Miss Brand-New Day