Song of the Day: 'Hello, I Love You' by Missing Persons

My Facebook friend David Bartolini writes: 

"After coveting this Glen Wexler piece for some time now, I finally took this beauty home this weekend! Not only is Missing Persons ‘Spring Session M’ one of my favorite albums of all time but this iconic image of Dale Bozzio by Glen is also one of my favorites!" 

I still adore the singles from "Spring Session M" ("Words," "Destination Unknown," "Walking in L.A.") and love that they included this quirky Doors cover B-side on the album's reissue. 

Song of the Day: 'Walking in L.A.' by Missing Persons

 

The New York and Los Angeles marathons were yesterday, and leave it to my friend Greg to capture the best sign of all!

FWIW: Last time I was in L.A. I remember walking from the Standard Hotel to Book Soup to the Abbey -- a grand total of 1.5 miles -- and every car that drove by looking at me as if I were nuts! 

Song of the Day: 'Mental Hopscotch' by Missing Persons

Maybe everyone feels this way about their era. But it's hard to beat  the Go-Go's, Pretenders, Clash, Motels, Stevie Nicks, Stray Cats, Missing Persons, Pat Benatar, Cheap Trick, ELO and, um, hepatitis(?) getting shoutouts in your high school yearbook!

 #DobsonClassof85

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Ironically, that's also the admission fee to enter Dale Bozzio's House of Horrors. By the way: Bow Wow Wow only has one original member and it's not Annabella. 

I'd Tumble 4 Them

Loved Michael Musto's list of the 10 Cutest Guys From the 1980s New Wave. Did my own and found we had surprisingly little overlap.

Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes were all the girls at Dobson High ever talked about. But Roger Taylor was the stud in the band for me. 

Bono who? Larry Mullen Jr. was all I was looking at back in U2's heyday ...

The Kemp brothers were handsome, but Spandau Ballet saxophonist/jack-of-all-instruments Steve Norman (and Larry) had me doubting I wasn't "into blond guys." 

Kooky-looking Dale and Terry Bozzio were the focal point of Missing Persons, but guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (left) was the sexy one ... 

and he only got sexier when he joined Duran Duran and started dabbling in home-made pornography.

Easy to see why Boy George was so lovesick back in the '80s -- his bicurious drummer boyfriend, Jon Moss, could cause anyone's self-esteem to take a tumble.

Pretty boys aren't usually my thing, but Adam Ant had just the right hint of masculinity mixed in to make him irresistible.

Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet is the dictionary definition of tall, dark and handsome.

Annabella Lwin was an underage sex kitten, but I barely noticed she was in Bow Wow Wow with David Barbarossa behind her on drums.

Michael Hutchence was definitely sexy, but I always thought the hottest man in INXS was Jon Farriss. Maybe I have a thing for drummers.

Lloyd Cole's face was almost as sexy as his brain.

BONUS BOYS:

Not that I'd kick John Taylor out of bed for smoking cloves.

  Nick Heyward was the pretty-boy face of Haircut 100. But percussionist Mark Fox -- who became lead singer after Nick's nervous breakdown -- was my love plus one.

He was a pretty boy, indeed, but KajaGooGoo singer Limahl was too cute to resist.

UPDATE:

Billy Idol should have been on there, huh?

Song of the Day: 'Words' by Missing Persons

I don't really sit around listening to Missing Persons the way I do a lot of other bands from that era, but I still do still recall how much we adored Dale Bozzio & Co.'s debut EP, which featured "Words, "Destination Unknown," "Walking in L.A." and the frenetic "Mental Hopscotch." (Their deadpan b-side cover of the Doors' "Hello, I Love You" was actually quite fun, too!) These days, however, I'd rather watch Warren Cuccurullo's jerk-off videos -- he's a fan of using a dildo on himself -- which have sadly ceased production thanks to his becoming a church fart after a life-threatening illness.

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