[buttmunker]

Even today, 23 years later, the song can enrapture me (the extended album version, not the abruptly ended single version) - great, great song. I can go so far to say it is the best song of the 1980's.

Released from the album Welcome to The Real World, which went to No.1 in 1986 (released in 1985), and yielded two No.1 singles - Broken Wings and, of course, Kyrie.

Saying Kyrie is the best song of the entire decade is a Bold Statement, and I have no doubt in my mind that people here will emphatically disagree with it, but I'm hoping - holding out - for one soul brother or sister who will side with me by recognizing Kyrie as a quality tune.

[troy evans]

Mr.Mister was a damn good band and Kyrie is a great song. It has a way of reminding me of some of the best times in my life. It also has a way of wrapping up the 80's in a nice little package and going, "Here, this is what it was all about." It is an amazing tune.

[Paul McGowan]

This was a damn good song that I never owned back in 85. A friend had it and I ALWAYS wanted to listen to it when I was there. (I was 13). Thank you for bringing this "totally 80's" song to my attention. I just bought it on iTunes.

isn't the internet grand?

[Greg_S_H]

It's not my favorite of the '80s, but I do like it. I listen to Broken Wings more, though. Don't forget Is It Love, which was also a charting hit.

[Yee-Ming]

Pet peeve: because the lyric goes "Kyrie eleison...", many DJs were calling the song "kee-ree-eh", when it's just "kee-ree".

Whilst it is apparently possible to pronounce the word "Kyrie" with 3 syllables, in this context it obviously wasn't, as the third syllable in the line is obviously the first syllable of the word "eleison".

Kyrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. It's been bugging me for years...)

[Paul.S]

I love that cut, too. Love that keyboard bass part that comes in at :32. Grand chorus. Memorable video.

The only reason I'm not quite as ebullient about that track in particular, Mike, is because I dig ALL of Welcome To the Real World. But I will grant that radio play and its quasi-religious theme rendered "Kyrie" the most timeless and memorable cut from the album.

I think I only played The Power Station deeper into the ground circa 1985, before So and Back In the High Life dropped. What an exciting time: CD was a new format and I was discovering so much music.

"Black/White," "Don't Slow Down," "Into My Own Hands," "Is It Love" and "Tangent Tears" are all good jams IMO. "Run To Her" is a terrific ballad. Richard Page can s-i-n-g. Can anyone comment on his solo album Shelter Me? It's on my long list of discs to pick up.

Remarkable growth from album to album from this band. Real World was steps ahead of 1983's I Wear the Face; and 1987's outstanding Go On . . . was leaps and bounds beyond RW. If you don't have that album, grip it. One of the biggest industry headshakers and "Behind the Music" stories (before that show existed) of the 80s is the breakup of Mr. Mister: my understanding is that the band once again matured with its follow up to Go On . . .. RCA refused to release it and, rather than record a different album or radically change what they'd done, they broke up.

How 'bout an expanded remaster of this album, BMG?!

[Paul.S]

Sorry to continue what some might argue is a thread "hijack," Mike . . .

Ironically, I've just received my Working Class Dog remaster that I'd ordered before seeing this thread. After the Sony BMG joint venture, the formerly Sony-exclusive Legacy reissue imprimatur was applied to RCA releases. This is one of them. Branded an "Original Album Classics" release and packaged in a slipcase, it's remastered and expanded, with three bonus tracks and new track-by-track liner note commentary by Rick Springfield.

Sony BMG oughta do this for WTtRW.