Livin' 1986 this Week

On 06/03/2015 at 03:30 AM by KnightDriver

This all started as a game with my music collection. Each week I'd listen to another past year's music. Well, I couldn't stop there. I had to look up what was happening in gaming, books, and film too.

So I'm going to watch the film Sid and Nancy, play Dragon Warrior (if I can get a copy at Jay Street tomorrow), and not read any of the books because I'm still finishing Conie Willis' All Clear and about to start Tom Clancy's Hunt for Red October; not to mention trying to finish Snee's Crumbling Sky novel. But if I had the time, I'd like to read Adrian Edmonson's How to be a Complete Bastard. Adrian played punk Vyvyan on The Young Ones. A brit com also staring Rik Mayall. They worked together on other projects as well, and I thought both of them really funny. Why not a book too?

As for the music, there's a lot of it. At the time, I listened to Tony Bank's Soundtracks album, Peter Gabriel's So, Sting's Bring on the Night and Genesis' Invisible Touch, but I added a lot more to the list of things I"d like to hear in every type of genre. I have 77 titles. About 15 I own, and I think I can get about 7 more from the library. I hope to find others at various used record stores as the week goes on. I really find it fun to listen to all these albums on shuffle on my ipod. I get to thinking about the year in question. It's nostalgic, but it's also allows me to rehash things I did in my life and figure out what was good and what wasn't. Music is a great way to bring back a flood of memories.

Super Step Contributing Writer

06/03/2015 at 03:57 AM

That's such a great idea. I made a couple playlists in Spotify based on music I liked starting in 1990. Might look at all the best media from that time on and see what was up.

KnightDriver

06/04/2015 at 04:10 PM

I'm wondering how deep you can go with Spotify. Can you select individual albums, all in a playlist, and then play them in shuffle mode? I wonder what's available there too. I really like access to everything. I'm going to take a looksee at Spotify sometime.

06/04/2015 at 11:13 PM

If you pay for it, I believe you can in fact just listen to full albums. Forget what all comes free, but on a home PC I believe it's everything but with ads.

06/05/2015 at 04:30 PM

I'll give it a look. It would be less time consuming to go all streaming with music, but I have to have access to deep album cuts. I don't like just listening to hits.

VisuaLIES

06/03/2015 at 09:43 AM

I could grow up all over again! I could start with Atari, play with my old GI Joe toys to represent the crash years, and pick up with the NES lol.

06/04/2015 at 04:17 PM

Yea, "growing up all over again". I keep thinking I should be disinterested in this stuff as an adult, but I'm actually fascinated with it. I'm not playing with my Hotwheels again though. That stuff's for kids. LOL However, I kind of live my Hotwheels fantasies at work, now I think of it.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

06/04/2015 at 05:42 PM

sometimes I have dreams where I'm playing with my GI JOe's and Star wars figures like I used to.

06/04/2015 at 09:44 PM

I recently bought the "Art of He-Man" art book from Dark Horse. It was phenomenal and took me back to my childhood. The memories were buried so deeply I wasn't even sure at first if I had really seen some of that artwork as a kid, or if I was just imagining things.

06/04/2015 at 10:32 PM

I really liked He-Man. it was very imaginative. It's funny, that shit existed just to sell toys, but there's still art buried inside it.

06/05/2015 at 04:18 PM

I used to play games with my Hotwheels that were almost exactly like what I'm doing now. I'd move cars along a rug with patterns like roads, and I'd drive them around the patterns, and imagine the cars had places to go. Sometimes I think that your childhood games dictate, or foretell, your adult life. My life with cars is something I may write more about.

PixlBit