Billy Ocean... oceans of talent, right?

A few days ago, I got in the mood to listen to an old Billy Ocean song....

Billy Ocean was the shit when I was in, oh, 7th or 8th grade.  Whenever I hear one of his sickeningly sweet love songs from the mid 1980s, I'm taken to a simpler time...

A time when a simple song could evoke excitement and wonder...

Or firm resolution...

Or even feelings of love...

I stopped liking Billy Ocean around the time this song came out...

Oddly enough, that was around the time he stopped showing up so much on the radio.  Coincidence?

Twenty years hence, I picked up a CD that had an old Billy Ocean song on it from the 1970s.  I had never heard it before and didn't like it much.

Seems to me his career started and ended in the 1980s.  To me, he will always be in the Dungeon of the Past.