Have We Really (Largely) Forgotten "Life in a Northern Town"?

by Sean NelsonMa hey-uh ma ma ma.
Yesterday, in this piece about the vg '80s soundtrack to the pg (though eligible for a vg upgrade) Netflix series Glow, the vvg Pitchfork writer Judy Berman used the term "bewitching yet largely forgotten" to describe the Dream Academy's 1985 song "Life in a Northern Town." I know not everyone is 137 years old like some of us, and I'll even go so far as to allow that not everyone's (one and only) high school girlfriend put that song on a mixtape that they still