One thing is for certain: now that I'm listening to 1983 playlists and top albums, it's clear that this is when I started watching videos on MuchMusic regularly. Pretty well every song that I know and like from this time is also accompanied in my mind by its music video.
I'll admit, though, that I wasn't all that into the Cuts Like a Knife single back when it was on the air - it wasn't until Reckless that I really bought into Adams - and we'll be getting to that album soon enough. For now, "Knife" is a solid record and it was a big winner at the '84 Junos: record of the year and other production awards, too.
Now: where's my copy of Thriller??
I've been looking forward to opening up my album to this insert and playing this very important record in my life. But I couldn't find it.
To go back to the beginning, this was the first record that I bought for myself (and really, one of the very few as I was soon to get into cassettes), for $12 at the Trio Mart in Oakville (later, a great place to buy Transformers). I know that it hasn't been lost to time or moves because I've played it in recent years but it's just ... slipped away for the time being.
Ah well, it will turn up. In the meantime, there's no shortage of videos with people playing their own records, so I was able to jump right into the great opening track of Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and through the untouchable run of Thriller, Beat It, and Billie Jean that spans the two sides.
I've always felt that Jackson was more about the hits than about the record quality on the whole, but this is the exception, and it ran the music business for two whole years.
Maybe I'll find my record in time for its repeat performance as top seller for 1984.
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