Paul Janz -- Go to Pieces

 

As mentioned in the previous article, it is Canada Day so being a holiday, we have a special Reminiscings of Youth on July 1st. Of course, I wanted to keep on the Canadian theme so I'm bringing some good ol' Canadiana pop and rock from the 1980s.

Alberta-born Paul Janz may not have become a superstar but he did come up with one really catchy pop/rock number in 1985. "Go to Pieces" has one of the best choruses I've heard in a pop tune on either side of the border, and it's one reason that I've remembered it for so long (GO!). All about going ga-ga over a certain young lady, watching the music video after so long reminded me of those 1980s perms, mullets and sleeveless T-shirts. And good heavens...all those pastels!

Janz's hit reached No. 29 in Canada and is also a track on his debut album "High Strung", also from 1985. The singer himself was raised within a musical family with the whole group performing together from the early 1970s. He stopped recording for the most part in the early 1990s and he was once the Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at King's College London before retirement.

The only other thing I would have wanted from "Go to Pieces" was a 7" remix version but I guess that never came about. In any case, I don't know in which month the song was released in 1985, so why don't we go with what was coming out as Japanese singles in July of that year?

Onyanko Club -- Sailor Fuku wo Nugasanaide （セーラー服を脱がさないで）

Yukiko Okada -- Kanashii Yokan （哀しい予感）

Meiko Nakahara -- R-R-R-Russian Roulette（ロ・ロ・ロ・ロシアン・ルーレット）