This is going to be hard to hear, but:
-
This 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.
Good grief ye weren't pulling yer punches
-
@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

@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! 🤯
-
@jsr Happy Days first aired in 1974 and depicted life in 1955.
If it were made in 2026, it would be set in 2007.
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.
CC: @jsr@social.jsr.com
-
This 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.
@jsr I was an naïve, anxious, indebted, struggling student living off bread and eggs and struggling to make rent. I don't really miss 2010 that much
.I would hug my uncles tightly and visit them more while they were still around.
-
@coffeemug @jsr True! He was a rocker, but just barely.
-
@kralcttam
You've got the lyrics. Next work on the melody...
@jsr -
This 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.
@jsr Except the Summer of 69 wasn't about 1969, it was about a nonenumerated summer of nymphomania. For all we knew he was singing about 1984.
-
@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/
-
This 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.
@jsr 2010, the sequel to 2001 a Space Odyssey, is also fun: part of the plot revolves around political tensions between the US and Soviet Union making the crew separate. In the real world, the Soviet Union dissolved 20 years before that year. Also, no manned interplanetary voyages.
-
@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.
-
This 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.
@jsr I feel old yet I do think that year has been missed
-
This 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.
@jsr People are doing some very cursed math in this thread.
-
This 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.
@jsr If I could go back, I'd much rather return to 1969 than 2010.
-
@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.
@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.
-
This 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.
@jsr Prince released "1999" in 1982. And yes, I do remember that. I was 16 at the time (in '82 that is)
Now looking for a song about 2043.
-
@jsr If I could go back, I'd much rather return to 1969 than 2010.
@broken_spark @jsr Things aren't so bad that I'd go back to 1969, that's a dangerous time for so many people.
-
@jsr Marty McFly’s 1955 would be 1996.
@NotTheLBCGuy
Gone with the Wind's 1865 would be 1952.
@jsr -
This 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.
@jsr Yeah but according to the boss, 69 is a sex reference, not a year...
-
This 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.
Smashing Pumpkins released their song "1979" in January 23, 1996
-
@jsr in 1969 Bryan Adams was 10. Twas all a lie anyway
@bleistifterin @jsr
That must have been some band, one lad, who must have been held back in primary school, off getting married and a 10 year old who used go to a lot of drive in movies, his bloody little fingers on the steering wheel.