After watching Level 42 perform on "Saturday Live," the former '80s British equivalent of "Saturday Night Live," I thought, "I should listen to 'Running In The Family' more often. Its lyrics about how much our upbringing influences how we approach life are perceptive, the tune's sensibility is overtly English, and its synthesized rhythm, rooted firmly in 1987, is catchy. I have to respect any group that can make an infectious hook out of the lyrics, 'Looking back, it's so bizarre. It runs in the family...'"
If the American pop charts were meritocratic barometers of taste, "Running In The Family" would have been a hit in the states.
