Howard Jones' "Hide & Seek"

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While I used to be a huge fan of him in the mid 80s, a lot of his work hasn't quite held up with time. However, there is one work of his that I still love everytime I listen to it, and it is the beautiful and atmospheric "Hide & Seek". Still one of the best examples of 80s synth music I can imagine.

Anybody else like this track?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 26 September 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know that one... I've always been partial to "I'd Like to Get to Know You Well," used to marvelous effect in "Better Off Dead." I'll seek this out.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Friday, 26 September 2003 23:10 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to love that song - it's the one with the chorus "hope you find it" etc. ??? it kind of serves to highlight his weaknesses as a vocalist though - lots of long, drawn out notes which are kind of lifeless. but yeah it's pretty. i probably wouldn't get too into it these days

― ron (ron), Friday, 26 September 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

An attempt at a revive

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 28 April 2005 00:10 (twenty years ago)

Maybe the thread died the first time around because ron was so fully OTM there's not much left to say.

In any case, there are a few HJ songs I'd rank above H&S:

New Song >>> What is Love? > Things Can Only Get Better > Everlasting Love* > H&S = No One Is To Blame >>> everything else

*Admittedly, I like EL for idiosyncratic reasons -- mostly for the interesting things that happen metrically when the chorus becomes a canon near the end.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

what contemporary song did he cover on "hit me baby one more time"?

― dh, Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:20 (twenty years ago)

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