Although living on top of Mount Equinox was amazing good fun and staggeringly beautiful, we were more or less cut off from civilization. As a result, there wasn’t much in the way of new music being added to my collection. At this point I had 2 cassette carrying cases that held 24 cassettes each and a 48 cassette case. Do any of you remember these? Let me try to find a picture.
I also had a small stack of vinyl albums.We listened to a good deal of radio then as well. Always a radio on in the kitchen, sometimes in the bar. They had a table top version of Donkey Kong in the bar over the summer, I’d play it during slow times. By August I had become the Donkey Master.
Many of the songs hitting the radio that summer we have already discussed. Songs like, China Girl, She Blinded Me With Science, I Ran and others.
Here are some of the frequent flyers on the radio that summer that we haven’t talked about yet.
Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
Toni Basil – Mickey
Prince – 1999
It blows my mind to think that we were listening to 1999 in 1983 and that it would be nearly my entire lifetime again before we actually got to 1999. It seemed so far away from that end but just a drop in the bucket from this end looking back. I guess that time is like a telescope where looking to the future is like looking from the wrong end. Everything is artificially small and distant. Looking back, things seem closer than they actually are.