Written by Chris Isaak
This week is all about 1985!
From Isaak's debut (with cover modeled after Elvis's 1958 single "Don't") comes this toe-tapper that to me echoes "Somebody's Cryin'" on his masterpiece Forever Blue. Critics weren't very appreciative of Isaak's homage-slash-impersonation of Orbison and Presley back in 1985, but I like his '50s crooner wail and falsetto superimposed over a tight '80s-sound country-rock outfit (previously known as Silvertone), not shambling or rockabilly. It's a new kind of sound, derivative though it may be.
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