This month, all my A to Z Challenge posts will feature a song that is on my personal list of “deep cuts.” These are songs that my husband often razzes me about, that there’s no one else who has ever heard of them or is listening to them, or they’re songs that possibly are just not that mainstream. If we are of the same era or run in the same musical taste circles, none of these may seem that off the beaten path, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t fun songs! Enjoy!

if you were into the alternative scene in the ’80s then you may already know the song “Never Say Never” by RomeoVoid. I can remember listening to it on WLRA (I mentioned this college radio station in a previous post) and loved when it showed up in the little-known ’80s movie Reckless, which starts Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah as the oldest-looking high school kids you’ll ever see! (That was one of the fin things about all those ’80s teen movies, how the high school kids looked not at all like they were in high school haha!)

Probably the more well-known song from this movie is “Kids in America” by Kim Wilde, and I will concede that the scene where that song is used is pretty damn iconic. But for me, the song and scene that stands out is “Never Say Never.” Beside the fact that it cracks me up that that song would be allowed to be played at a high school dance, I love the way Aidan Quinn and Daryl Hannah dance to the song — it’s so quintessentially ’80s! — and I love the way the scene is filmed, obviously having the camera on a circular track.

I appreciated the fact that the lyrics were a bit on the racy side, with the chorus, “I might like you better if we slept together.” For the time this song was out, those lyrics would be positively scandalous — I can remember not wanting my mom and dad to hear me playing the song for fear they would take the album away from me! It seems silly, considering what music today is like, but I digress.

I’m sharing 2 videos below — one is the official music video for the song; the other is the dance scene from Reckless. Let me know if this is a song you could rock out to!