'80s Slow Dance

The night is no longer young, but it's far from over, and through the magic of nostalgia we've transported you back to the '80s, the golden decade of the slow dance. Now it's time to couple-up and smooch to Wham!'s "Careless Whisper" as your matching, tousled mullets cascade like hair fountains in the moonlight.

There was a time when the '80s DJ had absolute control over love. If the slow-dance selection involved Bryan Adams' power ballad "Heaven," the man would often blow his chances during the chorus with a awkwardly timed, clench-fisted sing-a-long. Likewise, ladies would stumble while attempting Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings."

Now we're into the hardcore section of our slow dance playlist, a place where many venture but few return without either a lifelong commitment or a pocketful of rejection. Let's be honest: If it goes wrong during Chris De Burgh's "The Lady In Red," the Bangles' "Eternal Flame," or T'Pau's "Heart and Soul," it was never meant to be.

In this millennium of chill-out rooms and mondo-clubs, the glory days of the slow dance seem like a quaint memory, on a par with the Charleston or the un-ironic use of Spandex by men. But we're proud to offer this magnificent grope-friendly revival, spearheaded by Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" (borrowed to great effect by John Cusack in the movie [i]Say Anything[/i]) and Berlin's "Take My Breath Away" (how else would Tom Cruise have snagged Kelly McGillis in [i]Top Gun[/i]?). Hot, steamy, and intimate — welcome to our '80s sauna of love sounds.