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We got to install microwave ovens...
Last night as we ate dinner in the nearby Italian place that does a great Bruscheta one of the tracks they played over The Stereo That Must Never Know Recent Music (there must be a shop somewhere that sells these stereos with a built-in selection of really old songs somewhere, sometimes decent ones, othertimes not) was Dire Strait's So Far Away.
Ah-ha, I've struck a chord.
You know the album don't you. Everyone of the Digital Generation does. Brothers in Arms was the album that launched the CD format across America. You got a CD player just to listen to Brothers In Arms.
My step-dad brought one back from living in the States. A squat black box with a coffee-holder tray and a bundle of these flat silver discs. I must have been eight or nine at the time but I can remember listening to that silver disc with the turquoise designs over and over. So much so that I got told off for hogging the CD player.
There's that backbeat from Money For Nothing... you can hear it, can't you?
Just as The Matrix was marketed in such a way as to sell DVD players across the world, Dire Straits did the same for CD players during the eighties. Myst did the same for CD-ROM drives in the early nineties, and who knows what movie did it for VCRs... thats before my time, we're taking prehistoric here.
Can you hear Sting?
The point I suppose was going to be that even a decade and a half on I can remember where I was the first time I listened to a CD, or played a CD-ROM, or watched a laser disc or DVD. It was going to be about those geeky first times. Instead I've made you want to go listen to Dire Straits, haven't I? A-moova-moova.
Mar.28.2002