Deh nah naaah naaaaaaaaah...
May. 22nd, 2003 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220Watching 80's No1's on VH1 and please dear GOD would someone explain to me why Europe's "The Final Countdown" seems to the one thing on this earth more evocative of the 80's for me than everything else that happened in the 80's put together?
Was it on a movie soundrack or something? Did something monumental happen around the time it was released? Why oh why oh why does just the opening riff send me instantly back to being in primary school?
I honestly don't remember, but there it is. Just the - Dah na naaah naaaaah... de nah nah nah naahh... de nah nah naah... de nah nah nah nah nah naaaah de ne nahhhhhhhhh it's the final countdown...
Yup, that'll do it.
Though given the way they look it could just be the root of those lingering poodle-hair guitarist issues I have. A long-repressed memory of something. Who knows...
Here's an interesting point though, if anyone's ever listened to Dream Theater's "When Dream and Day Unite", from the days when they had their old, long-forgotten singer-who-wasn't-James-LaBrie, you can play Spot the 80s Cheese with tracks that sometimes sound weirdly like the ones on that Europe album... :D
After searching the net, I think I answered my own question though. It was apparently on the soundtrack for Rocky IV. And although I know I've never seen it (people, I was 3 years old) I must have absorbed it subliminally or something.
It's very very odd.
Work of the collective unconscious, maybe?
Was it on a movie soundrack or something? Did something monumental happen around the time it was released? Why oh why oh why does just the opening riff send me instantly back to being in primary school?
I honestly don't remember, but there it is. Just the - Dah na naaah naaaaah... de nah nah nah naahh... de nah nah naah... de nah nah nah nah nah naaaah de ne nahhhhhhhhh it's the final countdown...
Yup, that'll do it.
Though given the way they look it could just be the root of those lingering poodle-hair guitarist issues I have. A long-repressed memory of something. Who knows...
Here's an interesting point though, if anyone's ever listened to Dream Theater's "When Dream and Day Unite", from the days when they had their old, long-forgotten singer-who-wasn't-James-LaBrie, you can play Spot the 80s Cheese with tracks that sometimes sound weirdly like the ones on that Europe album... :D
After searching the net, I think I answered my own question though. It was apparently on the soundtrack for Rocky IV. And although I know I've never seen it (people, I was 3 years old) I must have absorbed it subliminally or something.
It's very very odd.
Work of the collective unconscious, maybe?
