Songoftheday 7/25/13 - You're talking it all sounds fair you promise your love how much you care...

Berlin - "No More Words"
from the album Love Life (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #23 (two weeks)
Weeks in the Top-40: 8

Today's Song of the Day is by the American new-wave group Berlin, who came together in Los Angeles in the late seventies, but didn't get firmly established until singer Terri Nunn settled in with the band in 1980, and released their second album (and first with her) in 1982. The second single released from the set, "Sex (I'm A...)", became a college-radio success and landed them their first pop chart single the following year, reaching #62. They re-released their first single after that, the classic retro-noir of "The Metro" which topped off at #58 in 1983 as well. After a third minor hit ("Masquerade"), Berlin recorded their third album Love Life, and with it came the first single "No More Words", written by guitarist John Crawford and produced by disco/pop legend Giorgio Moroder. The big MTV push came with a high-concept "Bonnie & Clyde(s)"-styled video with the band as vagabond bank robbers...

"No More Words" became Berlin's first top-40 pop hit in May of 1984, and helped Love Life become their second to reach the top-40 on the albums chart.A year later it would be featured in the movie Vision Quest, even becoming the "B-side" to the Madonna #1 hit "Crazy For You".

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..here's the band performing "No More Words" live (well, "mimed"),  in 1984...

By the time Berlin would reappear in the top-40, almost half the band would be out, losing original band member David Diamond, who I so had a crush on at the time. Well, after leaving Berlin he went into a career in aviation, and became quite the hunky bear-type as it is...

The original band line-up, including Diamond, Nunn, and Crawford, were reunited in VH1's Bands Reunited back in the mid-naughties.(The link is an interesting take on the experience from Diamond).

Up Tomorrow: 14 Billys go acappella.