Number 39: Platinum Blonde - Doesn't Really Matter

"You don't really want to know...your concern is just for show." The year is 1983, and Platinum Blonde's Standing In The Dark LP is tearing up the canuck charts. Some have taken to calling Mark Holmes and crew "the Canadian Duran Duran". Then "Doesn't Really Matter" is released as a single. The video above is in heavy rotation on Much Music all summer. The tune is inescapable on the radio. New Wave is ascendant in the Great White North, and Platinum Blonde are its avatars. Good times! Oh, and #39 on my Top 200 in the band's fourth and last appearance here.