This is going to be hard to hear, but:
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@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/
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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.
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@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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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
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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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.
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@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.
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@jsr Marty McFly’s 1955 would be 1996.
@NotTheLBCGuy
Gone with the Wind's 1865 would be 1952.
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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...
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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
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@jsr in 1969 Bryan Adams was 10. Twas all a lie anyway
@bleistifterin @jsr
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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 Wait, what? No, that definitely can't be right.
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@jsr Marty McFly’s 1955 would be 1996.
@NotTheLBCGuy
Him desperately trying to hook up his smartphone with a PC serial port
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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 oh my
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@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.
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@NotTheLBCGuy
Gone with the Wind's 1865 would be 1952.
@jsr@NotTheLBCGuy
Maybe more to the point The Birth of a Nation's 1865 would be 1976.
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@jsr I mean… right now, I very much want 2010–2015 back. Those few precious years were we thought intolerance was dead. No Trump in the White House, no Ukraine War; Germany, France, and UK didn't have neonazi parties dominating the elections, trans rights were making unprecedented progress and the massive misinformation campaigns weren't yet on the horizon, we got Obergefell v Hodges, Musk was just a cunt with a car company and GPTs were still cool nerd stuff and not world-destroying climate crisis engines yet…
Life was good in 2010, compared to today. I'd listen to a 2010 nostalgia song.
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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 it was Summer of Sex Number, though, as much as it was about the particular year, or at least Adams was willing to express shtick to that effect:
"Adams found the title intriguing;[13] although it suggests a specific timeframe, he asserted that the number was a metaphor for coming of age rather than a strictly personal timeline.[14] Adams later revealed that the number 69 was also intended as a sexual double entendre."
