'88

We just watched "Donnie Darko" tonight. The movie takes place in '88, the year I graduated high school. Somewhere in the middle of the movie I made the comment to my husband that the person who did the music for the movie must've been about our age because of the timeframe of the music. Here's the funny thing -- throughout the entire movie it flashes up with the current date and a countdown to the "end of the world" and the year just never quite sunk in for me - my husband had to point it out. Can you say "Duh!" :)
Right around Christmas we found a site to download some music. Mike asked what my perfect playlist would be. Many of the songs I thought of were from that time period, and as a matter of fact at least 3 of the songs in the movie I had either downloaded or was looking for to download. That must've been a good year for music! The songs were "Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears, "Love Will Tear Us Apart Again" by Joy Division - and I looked forever for "Under the Milky Way" by the Church and couldn't find it... well, those three make my list anyway. I'd probably have to have a 10 cd collection for my ultimate playlist though ;) so many songs! But lots of them from my high school days would make it.