This Week's Forgotten Gem of the '80s - Moving Pictures' "What About Me?"

I usually make it a rule on this site to avoid replicated coverage of any one artist or album or song unless absolutely necessary. I think it's a policy that helps promote breadth of content and is therefore a sound one. However, in the case of this keyboard-heavy early power ballad - which made appearances on two separate occasions within the U.S. Top 50, in 1983 and 1989 - I think an exception can be justifiably made.

The reason I feel compelled to honor this Australian one-hit wonder in such a way relates to an experience I had last week while making my daily journey through the contents of my iPod. Going alphabetically by song title, I reached this song during my lunch break and cranked it up to sing along the way I'm always compelled to do whenever I hear it. When my mp3 player, as it sometimes does, jumped to the next song without apparent reason, I became quite agitated, especially after multiple attempts to go back and work through the glitch failed completely. So, long story slightly abridged, I didn't get to listen to the whole song that day, a fact that marred an otherwise perfectly enjoyable lunch break in my breezy, shaded car with the windows rolled down. Now that I've gone out of my way to procure a clean copy of the tune this weekend, I wanted to point out, dear readers, that when owning a song becomes this important, I think it's safe to say you might have a forgotten gem on your hands.

• Sample or download "What About Me?" here.
• Compare prices on Moving Pictures CDs here.
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