Runtu a lot of crappy music watching that made me

Runtu : a lot of crappy /  http://proza.ru/2023/11/22/988 / music watching that made me feel really old UK


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              The other night, for whatever reason,

         I stayed up late watching the top 100 songs of the 1980s.

            If nothing else, watching that made me feel really old.

I came of age in the early 1980s,
graduating from high school in 1982

and graduating from college in 1989

(with a mission to Bolivia in the middle).

For me high school was the transition between the feathered hair of the late seventies and the brightly coloured spandex-and-headband-clad mid-eighties.

In Los Angeles at that time, people were listening to punk, ska, and some techno and wearing thrift-store clothes (you can see a little of the residual of that in Pretty in Pink).

Anyhow, I was watching this show, giving my daughter a running commentary, and gasping at the gray-haired geezers that the pop stars of my day had become.

These guys were old, and surely, I’m not that old, am I? Of course, maybe they just look old after a life of hard drugs and partying.

But then it hit me:

I am old, and the only reason my daughter
 was watching this show was solely for the “kitsch value.”


 We watched everything from one-hit wonders like Modern English and Dixie’s Midnight Runners (shudder) to the major stars like U2 and Madonna.

 (I missed most of Madonna’s early stuff because I was on my mission.)

I remembered when Bono had a mullet and George Michael was

 still singing “Wise guys realize there’s danger in emotional ties!”

It struck me that, as in every other decade,
there was a lot of crappy music in the 1980s.

I could have lived the rest of my life blissfully without
 being reminded of New Kids on the Block or Ratt.

 But there was good stuff, too.

For me, it was a hopeful decade.

I felt like I had my whole life ahead of me and could finally start living my dreams.

I was a member of God’s true church, and these were the days when the church was growing at a phenomenal rate, and we could see on the horizon the fulfillment of Spencer Kimball’s vision of a world full of Mormons.

Now I am living my dream, with a great career and a wonderful family.

I think I’m more realistic about life, and I have grown past the myths of my youth.

Even the Mormon church has seen its heyday recede into the rearview mirror as its growth rates flatten and its faith claims become even less plausible.

But they, like me, soldier on.

So, what was the number one song as voted by you, the viewer?

“Living on a Prayer” by Bon Jovi.

Holy crap, I stayed up for that?

For my money, the best album of the 1980s came out in 1980:

The Clash’s London Calling.

Nothing the rest of the decade comes close.

 Certainly not Bon-freaking-Jovi.


But Joe Strummer is dead, and even Big Audio Dynamite is long gone.

I’m left to see in the mirror a greying, middle-aged man on the downhill side of life.

But I’m happy where I am.

 I can look back on the eighties with nostalgia

 but also with some relief that my youth is over.

 I like being a grown-up.....


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