Stuck In Time -or- Tracks that Haven't Survived the Test of Time...

Posted about 4 years ago

Artist:
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Dada
Album:
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Puzzle
Track:
Dizz Knee Land

I try to not be overly nostalgic about the past. Sure, sometimes it seems things were better way back, but I like to remember what Jackie Gleason said "The past always plays better than it was lived."
So what about those tracks you hear for the first time in ages, those tracks that you still remember lyrics too, but yet you haven't heard them since the year they were released?
I recently had this experience when the song "Dizz Knee Land" by the band Dada popped into my head, and I just had to hear it. Well a SeeqPod search later and I found the song and was back in 1992 when I used to hear this song all the time on the radio. Needless to say, I think it still sounds like 1992 to me, and has not aged well. It's got a kind of gimmicky hook that a lot of the all-new-music-is-alternative-music that was being pushed on us all the time back then.
So moggers, what songs cause you to become unstuck in time?
or
What songs are painfully stuck in time when you listen to them now?

Comments (12)

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annieander says Sometimes this comes on when I am shuffling thru my iPod... Smiley Face Time.

Permalink posted 04/08/2008
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contrabandwidth says Damn. That's gonna stick.

Permalink posted 04/08/2008
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annieander says I like the time machine reference btw. Just rented and watched it with my boy...painful for an adult to watch, but he really liked it. If you are asking these questions with a movie in mind, then I would have to choose, "Clash of the Titans"... Release the Cracken!

Permalink posted 04/08/2008
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contrabandwidth says Oh my, oh yes, indeed! Ray Harry Hausen is great! Man, like a Cap n' Crunch flash back. How I loved that movie. But I would put Flash Gordon and Red Dawn next to this one as well. and God bless Harry Dean Stanton.

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annieander says Nice!

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dachmo says that would be "...ate up my 16 year old mind"

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dachmo says This movie eat up my 16 year old mind, at the time. I've seen it recently and it's just alright.

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dachmo says As for music, this song will forever remind me of the summer of 1981, which for me was the summer before 6th grade.

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Sturgell says There is a band named Dada? Hmm. I think PoMo(Post Modern) would be a good band name,

Permalink posted 04/08/2008
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Groon says Great post and question! Seems like there's two ways to answer, and I'm not sure if you were going for one, the other, or both. The questions being what songs haven't aged well, and sound stuck in the time period they were created in (let's face, just about anything on the radio in the early to mid 80's applies here), or which songs are so rooted to a time period in our life that when we here it we are transported back to that particular when and where. Hmmm . . . for me, probably the song that pulls me to a particular memory the strongest is "Wish you Were Here." (WARNING: Geek references ahead!) In high school, every weekend I would go to a friend's house and we would all basically spend the weekend playing D & D or some other game and listen to music. This is where I first heard Pink Floyd, Rush, and many of the other bands that shaped my first "real" listening habits. And this was the song that stopped everybody in their tracks, whatever they were doing, to listen to it. However, that's a song that has aged very well, so not quite matching your OP.

Permalink posted 04/08/2008
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Dale says Ugh, I thought that Dada song was poorly marketed when it first came out. I remember 120 Minutes trying to shove it down my throat, and I wasn't having it.

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shagg says

Sorry but I must come to poor Dada's defense. I bought their first album, "Puzzle," after hearing Dizz Knee Land on 120 minutes way back when. And it turns out DKL was more or less the gimmick song, and they otherwise totally deliver on songwriting and musicianship. Dada did three albums for IRS before they went under, then an album for MCA (always a bad move), and now they're on their own. Check out this live video from last December for a taste.

Permalink posted 06/17/2008