Still Preoccupied with 1985

So today's music is courtesy of 1985, due to a hankering for Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven (which just finished)...so now I'm listening to Meat Is Murder, which I haven't listened to in AGES because I've always thought it was the Smiths' weakest album, and on deck is The Head on the Door, the twin EPs of Tiny Dynamine and Echoes in a Shallow Bay, and some random Depeche Mode singles.

So what was I doing all those years ago...? Finishing up junior high and starting freshman year in high school, hanging out with friends downtown (oddly enough our favorite hangout was in front of the library), I'd gone out with (and quickly broken up with) my first two girlfriends, my moodiness was kicking in, I'd soon accidentally discover college radio after a brief obsession with jazz, I'd be on the first soccer team my high school had in years, I'd discover the hilarity that is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series...all sorts of things.

Of course, chances are, this playlist will probably scooch over to 1986 (I've already thrown Standing on a Beach, the cassette version with the b-sides, on there, and will probably throw more Smiths on there if I have time).

Yeah, I know. I should just shut up about all this retro music and write a damn book about it already. :p