If you’ve been hanging around here for any amount of time, you’ve probably picked up that I can be a bit of a cynical bastard. But this video of 17-year old Molly from Brookhaven covering Kirsty MacColl/Tracey Ullman’s “They Don’t Know” is one of the most beautiful and inspirational things I’ve seen in quite a while.

Good job, Molly. I’d buy a CD full of melancholy covers like this in a minute.

Lost in the '80s, Music

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John C. Hughes began his Lost in the ’80s blog in 2005 and is now proud to be a member of the Popdose family, where he’s introduced LIT80s’s companions, the obviously named Lost in the ’70s and Lost in the ’90s, alongside the slightly more originally named Why You Should Like…

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