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Peter Wolf hit it big with "Come As You Are" in 1987. I remember an article in Rolling Stone or somesuch that covered how Wolf compiled his album out of songs originally rejected by the J.Geils Band, which I found fascinating. Not so fascinating was his video, which featured Wolf bizarrely hopping around a 1950s town. It wasn't necessarily a bad video, but the era of MTV (or Friday Night Videos, because I didn't get MTV in my small Texas town) it was just baffling. It wasn't until decades later that I realized this video is almost a jump-for-jump homage to Bobby Van's 1953 performance of "Take Me To Broadway" From the film "Small Town Girl." After comparing the two, I'm much more impressed by Wolf's video.

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I saw Peter Wolf's "When Women Are Lonely" exactly once, on MTV, back in 1990 or 1991. I never saw the video again, never heard the song on the radio. It was off Wolf's Up to No Good album, which received no airplay and flopped, thus relegating him to that subset of former hit makers who have to content themselves with putting out critically acclaimed albums few people hear. Still, I fell in love with the song and have waited a long time for the video to resurface on YouTube. Enjoy.

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Well, since the J. Geils Band video I wanted to feature today has "embedding disabled by request," we'll go with the next best thing to start this 2010 out on a fun and lively note: Peter Wolf's "Lights Out."



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