The Bangles

Hero Takes a Fall

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Today we’re listening to “Hero Takes A Fall” by The Bangles

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In the mid-to-late 80s, the Bangles were, well, all over the place. Their sophomore record, A Different Light, was the record that kept on giving. With hits like “If She Knew What She Wants” and “Walk Like an Egyptian,” the band was in pop music’s stratosphere.

And the catapult that launched them there? Their debut record, 1984’s All Over The Place.

And while the album didn’t produce a hit, it produced two singles. “Going Down To Liverpool” is the second most popular song Kimberly Rew wrote for his band, and The Bangles’ cover of it won them a BPI (the British equivalent of a Grammy). The second was “Hero Takes A Fall,” which saw some steady college radio play.

Further, it got the band on many people’s radar, including Prince, who would go on to offer them his “Manic Monday” track.

Oh, and that other song Kimberly Rew wrote? You can find it here.

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Despite the breakneck pace of their journey, the Bangles never lost sight of translating their distinctive sound to their inaugural effort; the writing and recording for All Over the Place was soon underway. Excluding their excellent covers of The Merry-Go Round’s “Live” and Katrina and the Waves “Going Down to Liverpool,” the remainder of All Over the Place finds its Venusian fueled content scripted wholly by the Peterson sisters and Hoffs. The uniform excellence of the songwriting was due to the cohesive nature of the working relationship between the Bangles and their knowledge of each other’s strengths comes through vividly in the music too.

Click here to read the rest of Albumism’s look back at All Over The Place.

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Listen:

“Hero Takes A Fall” by The Bangles| All Over The Place, 1984

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