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John S RussellThis is going to be hard to hear, but:
Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.
Flamekebab@jsr reflecting on my own life that actually tracks really well. I'm nearly 40 and in 2010 I was going to parties, events, and living the uni life.
May Keable 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@Flamekebab @jsr a couple more years and we could write one about the idyllic summer that Pokémon Go launched.
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Tubemeister@TheDutchChief @Keab42 @Flamekebab @jsr 2010 was definitely memorable for me.
Was organising an international convention and less than 24h before it started that bastard unpronounceable volcano shut down all of Europe’s airspace.
Fuck 2010.
Ellie@Tubemeister @TheDutchChief @Keab42 @Flamekebab @jsr I landed at ORK Ireland the day before and remember spending a bit of each night for 2 weeks worrying about how I would get home.
The countryside was so lush and green that March.
@ellie @TheDutchChief @Keab42 @Flamekebab @jsr Yeah. We had guests from Australia get stuck in England, one hop away from Amsterdam. And guests who had made it wondering how to get back home.
One person from Finland bought a cheap used car and drove, via Tallinn. Lots of impromptu adventures.
And about a quarter of the guests not making it to the event. That sort of thing tends to stick in your head. ;-)
Alex, the Hearth Fire@Keab42 @Flamekebab @jsr that was indeed an idyllic summer
I was in grad school; my now-wife and I sideloaded it so we could get it early in Canada, and there were Squirtles everywhere
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Rob van Kan🔻@jsr I always sing "Those were the first days of my life" as I'm from August of '69
@edgeofeurope My ex was from '69, the memories were not that good. @jsr
Not The LBC Guy@jsr Marty McFly’s 1955 would be 1996.
Tristan Colgate-McFarlane@NotTheLBCGuy @jsr I guess then if we just say that Marty's 1855 is our 1896, I don't have to feel quite as old (I should mention this to my knees).
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It turns out that Bryan had a different sort of 69 in mind. But your point still stands that we are older than we ever believed we could be.
It turns out that Bryan had a different sort of 69 in mind. But your point still stands that we are older than we ever believed we could be.
Anders Lindqvist@jsr That is right; anyone who knows who Bryan Adams is probably has problem hearing most stuff these days.
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Nick@coffeemug @jsr True! He was a rocker, but just barely.
@coffeemug @jsr I guess unsure if the summer of 69 actually was in the year 69. Random reference: https://americansongwriter.com/the-double-meaning-behind-summer-of-69-by-bryan-adams/
Armin Hanisch@breakin @coffeemug @jsr You just made me smile because when „Reckless“ was released end of '84 I just had my personal „Summer of 69“ 😎😁 Fond memories.
🔥 Mireille Sillander 🔥@jsr so... last year
Rabbit@jsr Happy Days first aired in 1974 and depicted life in 1955.
If it were made in 2026, it would be set in 2007.
Strog (aka Dale Shrauger)I'm not sure I'm ready to feel nostalgic about the Great Recession with the housing market collapse, surge of the Iraq war, George Bush, pushing $100/barrel oil, VA Tech shooting, etc.
Maybe I could get nostalgic about Spiderman 3 getting record sales on opening day and the first iPhone being released? Probably not.
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Maybe I could get nostalgic about Spiderman 3 getting record sales on opening day and the first iPhone being released? Probably not.
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Brian Repko@jsr chari xcx did 1999 in 2018 so that also tracks (19 years vs 16 years)
kralcttam ☕️@jsr In the summer of 2010 I sold my car, left my apartment, rode a bicycle from San Diego to New York City and then moved in with my now wife in Atlanta. #SummerOf2010
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@jsr similarly, Bowling for Soup's "1985" (released 2004) would now be about the far off year of 2007
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Alessandro Muraro@jsr as everyone knows time stopped in 2002
Leo (he/him) 🇺🇦@jsr This is going to be hard to hear, but:
Miley Cyrus released "Party in the U.S.A." in 2009, ten years after the first Britney song came on the radio. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2016.
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Siegfried.@jsr Adams himself said in an interview on tv that the song is about a very special love experience.
AlsoPaisleyCat 🇨🇦@realSiegfried not his own experience.
Bryan was 10 years old in 1969, living in Beruit where his British father was a military attaché.
His agent and rock promoter Bruce Allen had matched Bryan up with a lyricist who was a decade older. He has said in interviews after he was free of that contractual relationship that he wasn’t always comfortable justifying songs that weren’t within his own experience.
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Chris Pitts@jsr @matthewskelton The very first album I ever bought was The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden in 1982. That’s 44 years ago.
Thanks for making me feel very old 😭
Arthur van der Harg@thirstybear @jsr @matthewskelton Hah, you too. Only it was “Killers” for me. And then a few years back, all the hubbub of “Killers” turns 40 this year! … uhh, no it doesn’t, it came out in … Damn! 🤯
@thirstybear @jsr @matthewskelton My first two were „Tattoo You“ and „Dire Straits“ in fall of '81. 🤗 Chris, we *are* old. 😎😆😁 But we gad a chance to go to all these concerts the young folks never have a chance to do.
@jsr bit Brit specific, but they mentioned on the radio the other day that the Maradona "Hand of God" moment was 40 years ago, which means that that day is now twice as far away as the England World Cup win of 1966 was then.
(I know nothing of football, but these things are weird archaeological monoliths in English culture).
Isaac Ji Kuo@jsr Summer of 2010? Yeah, that'd be good. Back when it felt like things were looking up.
Back when it felt like the USA's institutions were proving resilient and fixing things.
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Jani Nikula@jsr Bryan Adams having been born in 1959, the similar nostalgia-based song about 2010 would be written by someone born in 2000.
the vessel of morganna@jsr that song is explicitly not about 1969, it's just a dumb sex joke. Bryan Adams was a little kid in 1969 lol
Bleistifterin@jsr in 1969 Bryan Adams was 10. Twas all a lie anyway