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It was always fascinating to me that that song is from 1988.  I didn't discover it until the early 90's when grunge was in, and I thought it fit well with some of the alternative artists like Tori Amos or Mazzy Star that were cool at the time, so I just assumed it was new.  Way later, probably in college in the late 90's I found out how old the song was. 

Really ahead of its time, imo.  

It probably feels pretty cool to have something you do which you figure will just be a niche thing that only a few people will ever know about get really big years after the fact.  (I'm not saying nobody knew about What I Am, but I am saying that me and my little world of people didn't know about it when it came out.)

Maybe this goes in the weird history thread, but speaking of an effort getting bigger later, I remember this cool story from the mid-90's.  Original Beatles drummer Pete Best had left the band before they ever hit it big, and plenty of more casual fans wouldn't even know his name, certainly not like Ringo's.  Sometime in the mid-90's they put out the Anthology compilation set, and it included two songs, I think, from before they were big, which Pete had played on.  After living a life of relative obscurity and financial normality, the royalties he got off of those two songs made him a millionaire (or maybe multimillionaire) almost overnight.  I always thought that must be crazy.  You sit around for 30 years, possibly wondering what might have been if you'd stuck it out, you watch your old bandmates go on to all this crazy musical and cultural success, and BAM, one day in your late 50's something like that happens and you've got a sudden windfall.  

I'm not calling any art history major "doctor".

Sorry not sorry.

A PhD in a hard science or engineering?

Doctor.

A middle school friend’s dad had a doctorate in engineering. He sometimes insisted on being called doctor. 

He was a gaping asshole. 

I don't know how it would feel to get an unexpected few million dollars in my 50s, but I sure would like to find out...

I did a bunch of session work for local yokels when I was in Austin.  Maybe one of them will blow up one day and I'll be rich. 

For multiple reasons, probably not.   

I'd be curious to know if I could spot myself on something I forgot about and didn't know was me.  

Dexys Midnight Runners and Toni Basil, you have to go to a specific 80s Alt channel to find it.

Quick, name any song other than Come on Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners!

Want to feel old?  

Toni Basil, pictured here in her cheerleader outfit from the video for Mickey was born September 22, 1943.  She turned 81 last fall.  

The song was released in 1982 and recorded in 1981 so Toni was already close to 40 when she did that video.  

It probably feels pretty cool to have something you do which you figure will just be a niche thing that only a few people will ever know about get really big years after the fact.  (I'm not saying nobody knew about What I Am, but I am saying that me and my little world of people didn't know about it when it came out.)

We had MTV in 1988, so I remember What I Am when the video was getting regular airplay. 

I just always remember her as "the cute hippie-looking chick", much like Lisa Loeb became "the cute nerdy-looking chick" a couple years later 

Yeah, my boss didn't like to be called doctor either. I used to do it to tease him. He'd just chuckle and kick me out of his office.

That was a fun place to work, with 30 people or so. Now he's got 500 or so.

I never wanted to be that big. 35-40 is a good number for us, but we're stuck at 28. Can't find people.