Al Corley Loves Adjective Nouns

Typically, Al Corley is best remembered for playing a character on Dynasty.

Judging from the above photo, he can also be remembered as a pioneer of the lip puckered doucheface popularized by Hot Chicks With Douchebags (college humor alert):




(Despite the bright aqua letters, that last one is not my edit.)

Let's try to put that awfulness behind us. Corley's a thousand times cooler than anyone in those pictures, so let's remember him in a much more fitting way: as a singer with a strange predilection for songs about adjective nouns.

"Cold Dresses," "Square Rooms" - anything goes with Corley.

Even though "Square Rooms" got all the hype and became a #1 hit in France, Video Pop is a much more avid supporter of "Cold Dresses."

"Cold Dresses" has a more epic, urgent feel to it, and is ultimately much catchier. But it makes you work for the pop bliss. You have to endure long stretches of fairly bleak beats and bizarre lyrics.

When that twinkly synth melody kicks in, though, the world's collective heart melts.

Listen:

Al Corley - Cold Dresses

I'll include the lesser "Square Rooms" for completeness and a better sense of Corley's oeuvre.

Al Corley - Square Rooms

BONUS:

Oh my god, I just found the video for "Cold Dresses." It just magnified the song's bizarreness by a factor of twenty. Aside from Corley doing spastic dances, including a poorly realized version of the 80s snap your fingers/swing your ams move, there's a guy in faux tribal gear doing equally agitated dancing in front of - yup, you guessed it - people typing at typewriters in makeshift cubicles (??)