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10 September 2011
Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield (from 1981) may be one of the best pop songs ever written, but the video is... less than great.
Which is why I was gobsmacked when I learned that it's the second song on the album. Here is Mr. Springfield's contribution to the canon and they don't lead off the record with it?
I was the right age but the wrong personality to be smitten Rick Springfield in his heyday. It was only with this wrenching, exhausting, incredible scene from Boogie Nights that I noticed what a great song it is. ("Jessie's Girl" starts about five minutes into the scene.)
Of course, that linked scene is a GREAT BIG SPOILER from quite late in the film, so don't watch it if you haven't seen the movie.