Albums [best] - Corey Hart

This one was the pivot. The forgotten masterpiece. By 1988, the world had moved on to hair metal and the first stirrings of grunge. Corey Hart should have been a footnote. Instead, he made his strangest, most honest record.

That was the first layer of the box. The raw ache of leaving. corey hart albums

The man in the warehouse remembered hearing it once, on a crackling AM station after midnight. He’d been sixteen, lying on a shag carpet, convinced no one understood the precise geometry of his loneliness. Then this Canadian kid with the new-wave frostbite in his voice sang: “You leave a note on the table / You say you’ll be back when you’re able.” The man had cried then. He wouldn’t admit it now, but he remembered. This one was the pivot

Her father didn’t cry. He just closed his eyes and mouthed the words. “You leave a note on the table…” Corey Hart should have been a footnote