80s Jams #11: The Plimsouls "A Million Miles Away" (1982)

Packing all of the passion and punch of some of John Lennon's finest recordings with a wonderful power-driven Byrds-like arrangement, "A Million Miles Away" started its life as a single in 1982 before making its way onto the Plimsouls' album, Everywhere at Once, and onto the soundtrack to the totally '80s cult movie Valley Girl; it remains a new wave and jangle rock standard. One explanation for why it clicked and lives on could be that the poppy song with the tense lyric encapsulated everything the overlooked but exciting, loud and raw Plimsouls ever did and honed it to a fine edge. -- Allmusic http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fxfrxqt5ldfe http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=33:wnfexqysldte