Homesick

 

Driving home today an old song started playing on the radio, Eternal Flame by The Bangles. With MASH and MacGyver re-runs on TV – I started feeling nostalgic.

Two weeks ago, my Youtube random browsing got me to a 2009 uploaded Australian Morning Show where a very old and grey Billy Ocean sang ‘Suddenly’. I haven’t felt that moved about a song in a long long long time. I mean, here’s a guy singing the same song I teased my mum about donkeys of years ago – but the words have SO much meaning coming from him now. Crooning soft lullabies about loving a girl, but with the dynamics age brings. The fella still had that magic!

Now call me old fashioned or square or un-hip, but Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby Baby’ can never reach that level of spine chilling, goose bumpy awesomeness. Ever. I just can’t see my kid feeling the same about that song in 20 years time, they way I felt about that song... And now I’m starting to sound like my mom the day I blared Sweet Child of Mine from my Sanyo cassette player lol.

Now that I’m older, movies are predictable, clothing styles recycled and music sounds like it was written by someone with a head shaped like a sucked mango. I mean – who sits in his office, grabs a A4 page and writes “My hump, my hump, my lovely lady hump. In the back and in the front”???

MacGyver didn’t need Google to find an answer to a problem. KITT’s computer system was very outdated by today’s standards, but it didn’t crash as much as Windows, wasn’t as complicated as Linux and wasn’t as skelm as Apple. BA Ruled! His awesomeness wasn’t as fragile as Michael Scofield who most have forgotten about. Mark Wahlberg in The Big Hit kicks Mark Wahlberg in Ted’s ass! Kreols and Bar Ones back then are infinitely better that the shit the sell now. Cars had design! Today they look like overgrown chordless tampons! No Character!

Kids suffer from ADD, ADHD, OCD and Lord knows how many other acronyms. And we had Respect then! Peanut butter was made from bushmen who chewed nuts and Chappies came from elephant snot. Balki from Perfect Strangers was funny, we could walk around at night, the sun wasn’t too hot, water tasted crisp and fresh, policemen greeted, camera men needed skill and not photoshop, and the material money was made from felt like money and not this sun dried toilet paper crap. Also, the Cosbys are what we strived to be like and KFC we had on special occasions. The mushroom haircut was cool, jeans didn’t cut off circulation and leave you in a coma, Sportmen played for the love of the game and playing out doors was the best. Thing. Ever. Clowns were scary, moustaches were hip, corduroy was warm and chicks with big hair sexy.

I’m a kid from the 80’s and 90’s. I’m proud of it.

So forgive me while I pump up my volume and sing:

♫♪It must’ve been love, but it’s ooover now! Must’ve been good, but I lost it somehow♫♪

PS: Phoebe Cates thumps Jessica Alba by a mile