"I hope you're pleased with what you've done!"

[muckefuck]

st_rev once floated the theory that we imprint for music about age seventeen. For him, it was an attempt to explain a sudden desire to hear songs he hadn't heard since high school and hadn't cared for much back then anyway. For me, it provides a ready explanation for why nothing quite stirs my blood like certain cheesy synthesizer sounds and neo-60s bass guitar. And this old track from Fischer-Z has both:

Did I hear back in 1980 when it was first released? Certainly not! That was during my father's Willie Nelson phase, and well before I began to explore music on my own. Besides, where in deepest darkest Missouri would I have heard such sissified big hair Brit music? Regardless of whether I'm only discovering it for the first time, it plays on all my musical psychlims and has earned its place among my Friday Night Videos.

Comments

[nibadi.livejournal.com]

ich habe noch eine Langspielplatte von Fischer Z aus den 80ern. Ich glaube das Stück ist auch darauf. Aber mein Plattenspieler streikt schon ein Weilchen. Ich müsste ihn wegbringen und einen neuen Riemen anbringen lassen.

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

I was out a while ago, and we ended up at an 80s night. There was a girl from Florida who was over to check out master's programmes, and she joined our group. Loads of the 80s synth pop songs were new to her, I remember trying to explain Enola Gay - "erm it's a electro love song about nuclear bombs, that most people will dance to when drunk"

My country is good at being big ponces isn't it?

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

Also I saw a cd advertised on tv, and available in all good supermarkets, called "the Dark Side of the 80s" full of Human League and Visage and Echo and the Bunnymen songs. I would buy it if I approved of cds, but I don't.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Yesterday at Starbucks, of all places, I saw a CD of music with "Wave" in the title. Most 80s samplers have at least a couple dogs in them (if I never hear another note from the Stray Cats in all of time, I won't shed a tear), but this was the I've seen from a label other than Rhino with no chaff whatsoever.

[ladytiamat.livejournal.com]

Well, that would explain my fondness for Alphaville. Their "Forever Young" album - greatest hits? - was practically the only cassette I owned when I was seventeen. And now that I think of it, it was a dub copy of somebody else's cassette. Then again, I also listened to Tchaikovsky's Concerto for Violin in D Major obsessively that year. And that still makes me stop still and listen no matter what, too.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

I have a strong dislike of much popular music from when I was 17. (shudder).

There was some good stuff being written back then, but I wasn't hearing it.

I think you had better music!

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

I just noticed the namecheck in this post. Hi! How are you?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

This is the sort of thing which never happens on Facebook!

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

Stupid Facebook.