Driving on my big Friday night out alone I was listening to the radio and they were playing songs from 1987.
Terrence Trent D’Arby’s “Wishing Well”. Jody Watley’s “Looking for a New Love”. “Midnight Blue” by Lou Gramm. “Running in the Family” by Level 42. And most surprisingly Wax doing “Building a Bridge to Your Heart.”
Now I don’t think I’ve actually heard that song since 1987, but I felt 13 again. Acid wash. Poison and LouLou perfume. Mullets. Converse sneakers. Swimming during school lunch break across the road at the pool and peeling skin from my mates backs. Boys suddenly giving up punching me and amazingly becoming even more daft than I ever thought possible cos I was growing boobies.
And the year my mum said to me one day, “You’re not going to school today” and instead took me to see “Dirty Dancing.”
Just me and her.
And I remembered how much I loved her sudden acts of rebellion and bucking the system and going her own way and making me feel special and totally loved.
She sure was pretty cool.
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Loved the smell of LouLou perfume way back when , now it just gives me headaches
My high school had the olympic pool across from it , pool still there, school no longer, all housing now.
Loved Midnight blue too, ahhh memories….
“nobody puts baby in the corner” I swear my wife and I were just saying that line after my Swayze post.
how lucky you are to have such memories! xx
My mom never did anything that cool with me. Now I’m gonna go sulk. Great post. The song that most reminds me of 1987 is “Died In Your Arms Tonight” by Cutting Crew. We tried to do that one for the school talent show and sucked horribly.