I knew it. That song was like a morning spent in Bejam in the early 1980s, even though it introduced a potentially interesting tension between subject matter (love) and instrumentation (funeral dirge). The follow-up "Ring of Ice" was EVEN worse - like painting white paint over white paint in a...
How come this didn't make it to number one, but the vastly inferior follow-up The Sun Always Shines On TV did? Must have been some truly amazing track to keep Take On Me from the top spot (awaits the inevitable news that it was some terrible guff).