“I Remember You” by Skid Row

Rachel Bolan and Dave "the Snake" Sabo wrote "I Remember You" for Skid Row's self-titled 1989 debut, and Atlantic sent it out as the album's third single that November. It's the record's big power ballad, all yearning for a love that's slipped away, and Sebastian Bach wrings every drop of ache out of it.

Behind him, Sabo and Scotti Hill handle the guitars, Bolan plays bass and Rob Affuso drums, and those three string-slingers stack up the backing vocals. Michael Wagener produced, recorded and mixed it, with Dave Kent on additional engineering, and the payoff was a number-six hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two in New Zealand. In 2003 a later lineup, with Johnny Solinger singing, cut it again as "I Remember You Two" for Thickskin.

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