With all the attention on soft rocks hits in my life lately I started thinking: what song really made a difference in my life? What song really ’spoke’ to me? Other then the usual punk rock hits, of course, since I certainly didn’t lean towards that type of music typically. In fact, I was raised on a pretty healthy dose of nothing but classical music, opera, and my Dad’s old Beatles albums. It wasn’t until sixth grade when I finally got a little radio for my bedroom that my music tastes started opening up. During most of my early adolescence, you could find me in my room, blasting Casey Kasem on the radio, and drawing.

Recently I checked out the Casey Kasem cd set, “America’s Top 10 Through the Years.” This is a five cd set, starting from the 50s and careening through the 90’s. WOW. It’s amazing how much more tolerant I am of the 80’s hits versus the songs from the 90’s. It was just so, so, bad…like Amy Grant and Wilson Phillips bad. Anyway, I stumbled on “One More Try” and was immediately transported to my bed room during 7th grade. (His music was so true! I mean, if I ever got a boyfriend, I was sure that this song would sum up our inevitable break up). What I really love about this music video (and subsequent videos from the early 90’s) is the incredible styling, dance moves, and back up dancing. I mean, really, do we need several people swaying in the background? Do we need mock turtle necks paired with gold chains? Were white jeans on straight men ever appropriate? Apparently so…I mean we must have needed it because the early 90’s were my slow introduction to sub-culture. Anyway, I really love this video:


Side note: in an attempt to convince Mark to include this gem in our upcoming Soft Rock show I made Joey sing it with me at The Hideout last night. I sang it badly, but I’d had a few drinks and thought I sounded awesome. Josh pointed out the repeated rhyming of the word ‘you,’ and I think Mark might have actually considered it. Then I stumbled on this live version and OMG, the choreography is PRICELESS: