In that film review, I called Miami Connection "the holy grail of low budget eighties action," and it sort of occurred to me just now that one of the songs from the soundtrack is the holy grail of eighties garbage rock. This song is on par with Stan Bush's The Touch. The songs have a very similar feel to them, and I think that they're equals. Granted, the singer on Friends doesn't have a voice nearly as powerful and awesome as Stan Bush's golden pipes of awesomeness, but the song is just as memorable and just as deserving of being considered a masterpiece of eighties garbage rock.
The funniest part here is that it's from about the same time as The Touch, and yet, it's far more dated. The Touch sounded like 1986 because it came out in 1986. Friends sounds like 1982 at the very latest, and yet it came out in 1987. I think that makes it even more awesome.
You could even argue that song actually sounds very recent, because a song like this could only be recorded by someone after the year 2010 as a parody of eighties music for something like an Adult Swim cartoon that combines eighties cartoons like GI Joe and Transformers into a self aware parody of the era. This is so of the era that it can't actually be from the era. But it is, and that's why it's the holy grail of eighties garbage rock.
The song can also be heard on the soundtrack to the video game love letter to eighties cheese, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon.
