![]() ![]() “What You Don’t Know” – Exposé: After a brief foray into pop ballad territory, Exposé are back with their usual style of uptempo freesyle dance-pop. What a waste of two usually impeccable vocalists.ĩ7. ![]() Seriously, give it a listen – it falls incredibly flat! There’s just nothing at all here to give a damn about. This is a painfully dull, insultingly generic power ballad with not even an ear-grabbing chorus to hold it up. It almost seems as though this song had come by to bite me in the ass for these positive statements. “Surrender to Me” – Ann Wilson and Robin Zander: It’s pretty funny to me that I had very recently covered both Ann Wilson and Robin Zander’s vocals on separate songs from each of their bands. Here, Henley sounds a bit tired, and while the instrumentals are rather gorgeous – especially the piano accompaniment by Bruce Hornsby – this song doesn’t carry enough of a punch to make this efforts seem worthwhile. This song, to me, seems to be an attempt to piggyback off of the nostalgic vibes of “Boys”, but with a much more darker edge. “The End of the Innocence” – Don Henley: Don Henley seemed to have started off his solo career quite well at the first half of the decade, particularly with the strength of singles “Dirty Laundry” and especially “The Boys of Summer”. Led by the sweet vocals of Caron Wheeler, this is a nice move into a more chiller, atmospheric wave of R&B.ĩ9. The instrumental is a nice extension of the New Jack Swing style coming into prominence at this time – the punchy rhythm and party vibes are here, but it’s far more sleek and sophisticated than whatever Bobby Brown had put out by this point. “Keep on Movin'” – Soul II Soul: Gonna keep right on movin’ into the very last year of the 80s! This decade was loads of fun to delve into and I’m sad to see it go – though I’m all the more excited to dig into the weird, wacky 90s! So, Soul II Soul was a British R&B group that is probably best known for their hit “Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)”, but this was their other huge, oft-forgotten hit from the day. ![]()
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