What is it with the music of the '80s? While most music from eras past is busy fading away and taking its place among the seldom heard and never seen, the decade of cheesy pop and power ballads just keeps hanging on.

Or maybe it's the people who came of age then (yes, I'm talking to you with the big hair and more than two earrings in your left ear) that keep hanging on.

Why we still want to back the bus up when we hear "Get Out of My Dreams, Get Into My Car" is something we might never be able to explain to the people who weren't there (losers!), but all we know is that "Hungry Eyes" is, like, butter!

The first big '80s show of the year is tomorrow night at Aloha Tower Marketplace, with way-back music courtesy of a few of the decade's most popular R&B acts. Sorry, batcavers, this one's for the other guys.

The event, the "Pure Mega '80s Music Festival," takes over the tower for an evening of, you know, THOSE songs. And you will sing along, even while insisting that you were never really into El Debarge. Yeah. Right.

And he'll be on Stage 1, singing hits like "Who's Holding Donna Now." Sharing the stage will be Klymaxx, of "Meeting in the Ladies Room" fame.

Get "Lost in Emotion" on Stage 2 with Lisa Lisa (sans Cult Jam) and the only group that could possibly share the stage with her — Exposé.

Stage 3 is where Club Nouveau and Will to Power's Suzie Carr will remind us why the '80s are remembered as much for covers as original songs.