I overindulged after finishing my last day of work before a two-and-a-half week vacation and now I’m nursing a hangover and dealing with the regret of consuming a heroic amount of whiskey while watching the Masters of the Universe movie with Dolph Lundgren.
I never said I was a role model.
Best Of The Biscuit – Missing Persons
Missing Persons are not good hangover music.
This is the second part of the August 7th, 1983 Best Of The Biscuit radio show. The first part, which was a Thomas Dolby concert, can be found here.
I’m not a Missing Persons enthusiast, so I can’t speak to what die-hard fans would want to find on a Missing Persons’ concert from 1983. Speaking as someone who probably owned their first album at some point (just seems like something I should have bought), I can say that I’m very happy with this short, six song set. We get “Words,” “Destination Unknown,” and the immortal “Walking In LA.” In addition to those all-time classics, the group also performs the bangers “Mental Hopscotch” and “I Like Boys,” which I had never heard before and wish I had so I could’ve put it on a slutty playlist back when I was single (somewhere between Lady Gaga’s “Do What You Want With My Body” and an electro-punk cover of “Boys Boys Boys”). Also here is “Windows,” another lesser-known (to me anyways) piece that’s very good.
I’m once again including the commercials, which are sadly still mostly Army bullshit, with an ad for Honda at the very end. At the end of this side there’s a bit more though. You get some production credits for the show, followed by two 30 second promos for the program. One of them features commentary by an announcer, while the other is just the musical clips playing. I assume the latter is there so local radio stations could put their own DJs on the ad if they so desired.
Happy new year! And stay safe this New Year’s. Don’t drink an entire bottle of whiskey and sure as hell don’t watch Masters of the Universe.