This Is Probably The Greatest Song Of All Time

It occurred to me this morning that I don’t share nearly enough of my borderline psychotic pop culture tastes with you, loyal readers. Sure, you probably picked up on the fact I was in the midst of an Icehouse ‘Electric Blue’ obsession back in February but is that enough? Surely I should be offering you delicious slices of spazztasical idiocy on a more regular basis? After all, I have been officially quoted in a proper grown up paper as saying “I love so much but maybe it is all about shit … Who knew?” so there’s no hiding it now.

Therefore, please breathe deeply, load the following video, and suck up the goodness that is Phil Collins’ ‘Don’t Lose My Number’.

This is not a guilty pleasure, mind you. I genuinely think the song is GENIUS. Melodramatic, totally eighties, and a killer tune to spin when you’re DJ-ing (well, anywhere but an Absolut 15 competition where you’re catering to the tastes of vodka swilling coolsies who will respond to your selection with an expression that can best be described as a mix of confusion and contempt, as DJ GIN + JUICE can assure you from experience).

All in all, I give it eighty thousand out of ten, and I suspect I will NEVER get over the tune’s cheesy brilliance. A live version of it has been my MySpazz profile song for about two months straight, and it’s not going anywhere. Is it wrong that I am now actually kind of sad I’ll never be able to hear it live in concert? It is? Okay. I can accept that.

PS: The official clip is quite long and ridiculous, but I’ve lovingly placed it for your perusal over the jump.