Originally published at: "100 Best Songs of 1982," the year when today's pop music was born | Boing Boing
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Very happy to see Mecano on this list. ¡Buenos recuerdos!
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Tell me how old you are without telling me how old you are.
(He was 16 in 1982)
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It’s a good selection, brought back some memories, not all good.
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I was born in '82, so in a way I’m today’s pop music.
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Not bad.
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Basically my prime high school years and many songs I used to listen to. Some really deep cuts here, too, not just the usual “best of the year” blather. Love this.
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1982 was the year I started coding. In COBOL and Assembler. I miss the music and my Walkman!
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1982 was a fun year, but yeah, your analysis is spot-on.
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Looking at my collection I can only add the Circle Jerks “Wild in the Streets”, that is still a stone cold punk classic, and Deja Voodoo “Monsters in my Garage” that kind of kickstarted Canadian Indie weirdness.
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COBOL and Assembler, man, that takes me back. I was just discovering Apple BASIC in 1982, I admit. Music-wise I had just made friends with a classmate who was into Tangerine Dream and was hooked on Rubycon and a show on public radio called “The Untuning Of the Sky”. Never really looked back.
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1982 was my senior year and I’ll admit I was stoned out of my gourd from ‘80 through the summer of’ 86 but half the groups on that list… who?
I mean Rolling Stone top 100 from 1982 I should know more.
Of the ones I did know some of the songs I recognized some I didn’t.
Of course if it wasn’t played on Detroit radio it didn’t exist.
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Nice to have a brief moment where fellow Gen Xers get to set year when pop music was defined. The window will close all too quickly but I’ll enjoy the teenage memories while I can.
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