Monday, June 28, 2004

80's

Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight

This song is one of those cheesy 80's songs that, were there no memories attached to it, you would laugh at and dismiss, but it makes me physically nostalgic (if that's even possible) everytime I hear it.

I get flashed of those long rides home in the schoolbus from Saddar to Defence and back again in the mornings. On these occasions, I would grab the very last row of seats in the back and resolutely stick to the right hand corner of that seat. Since I was usually among the first kids to be picked up on the route, I got no trouble getting the seat of my choice. The reason I chose this seat was that one of the speakers connected to the Van's stereo system was right next to it, ensuring me a prime spot to listen to the Dj, aka the Van driver, play his choice of music. The driver in question was a super-cool guy with a taste for eighties music and it was in this very van that I heard my first ever spatterings of english music. Up until that point, music wasn't really a big feature in my life if you leave out my dad's incessant playing of Funkytown everytime we took a long road trip.

At that time, being an awkward and shy kid who never seemed to do anything right in a van full of college girls wasn't much fun and music gave me a chance to escape reality, one van ride at a time. It was in this period that I heard the Cutting Crew song and memories of that escapism flood back everytime I listen to this song.

Misha at Monday, June 28, 2004

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