There’s a reason why some songs get forgotten, at least by everyone but me, I guess. Hopefully, this little playlist brings back memories for some of you, and introduces you young’uns to some brand new old that your parents might have liked. Normally, someone makes a list like this, and then jokes about how the songs should have been forgotten, in the first place, but these are all songs I genuinely enjoyed, and bring back bittersweet memories of having heard them, for the first time, when I was a teenager.

I remember the videos of this era were some of the cheapest and cheesiest looking things ever made. Perhaps because this was really the first time musicians started really doing this kind of thing. Before the music video era most of them were live action performances. Some musicians got the hang of making these really fast ,but others had this…