Like yesterday’s post, today’s song is one of those “ah, that 80s song I liked!” that you don’t remember until you listen to again. And again. And again. And you remember all along that these 80s song, some as cheesy as they were, became classics.

Make no mistake, I love Falco’s original, but After the fire’s swanky video was ingrained in my head as a kid. Funny, I could describe the video on search engines, but never got a concrete answer. The video, like the song, was stuck in the back of my head, lost behind of some web-covered filing cabinet, if we want to imagine memories are like the ones depicted on Stephen King’s Dreamcatcher, a novel I devoured without quarter.

After the fire are a funny band in a way that the hits they had on charts differ from the UK and US. Goes to show you that even if you speak the same language, the idiom changes.

Or is it the other way around?

Falco’s original, which I swore it was German until kindly corrected by a teacher, is fierce. First time I saw the video, it reminded me of Automan, a silly but cool tv show I watched during the 80s.

From these posts, it would sound as I was musically inclined during the 80s, but no, quite the contrary. I seldom listened to music, only when I was a passenger on a car or when my brothers listened to music on the radio or a boombox. I guess when I went through a nostalgia trip while writing about those years, I found and rekindled with a lot of music.

Guess I’m a tourist.

-Sam J. Valdés López