There was a song that got considerable airplay on pop stations, I believe in the fall of 1986. It must have had no staying power whatsoever, because I’ve never heard it since then, even though I listen to 80s music stations sometimes. In the chorus, there’s a line that sounds something like “make it sweet more.” (That is NOT the actual line, but that’s what it sounded like to my 10-year-old ears.) The line may have been repeated. The four notes in “make it sweet more” follow the musical scale like this: (1st note) up up down, or maybe it was (1st note) down up down.
I know this is very minimal information, but I’ve seen other threads like this where somebody actually does identify the song. Any guesses?
Update: it was actually fall of 1985, not 1986. I went to the 1985 page of terentii’s link, but no luck. It’s not “Sweet Disorder” or “Opportunities” either.
It’s not “Things Can Only Get Better” either. I guess there’s a tiny chance that it’s a song I know well but am not making the connection with my memory of hearing it when i was 9.
Was it a ballad, a slow song, an upbeat number, '80s power pop, any ideas? I have some, but we need to narrow it down a bit. I’ll bet it was something slow.
EDIT: never mind, you answered that and I just missed it. Since the lyrics were indecipherable to your ears, it was slow, and had a minor key feel, how about Life In A Northern Town by The Dream Academy?
Oops. I meant to suggest Electric Blue. It’s chorus has the line “I just freeze when…” that sort of matches with the description in Ponch8’s original post.
For some reason I always confused those two songs.
