Aldo Nova was kind of a goofball. Even at the height of his coolness, which was brief indeed in the United States, he had a whiff of it about him. If you were born before 1975 or so, you’ll have no trouble remembering “Fantasy”:
Excessive pouter and grimacer though he was, the guy was responsible for some pretty cool pop metal. “Monkey on Your Back,” an anti-drug anthem and a current favorite of Nathan’s, was the first single from his follow-up album Subject in 1983:
Here he is in 1991, calling attention to the tragedy of gang violence and futilely attempting to stem the grunge juggernaut with “Blood on the Bricks,” co-written with Jon Bon Jovi:
These days, he’s mostly paying for his SpaghettiOs and Dr Pepper with songwriting and producing income.
As much as I enjoy these three songs, that’s probably best.
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