最近和小玫瑰聊音樂，她興致來傳給我幾個八零年代的音樂MV。天啊！我好懷念那時代喔！隨著旋律飛揚之際，想到過去的種種，那個少不經事、年少輕狂，在那種將不合理事件均歸納為：只要我喜歡，有什麼不可以的邏輯年紀，是多麼有趣的年代。
我有許多喜愛的歌曲，特別是每天與收音機為伍的八零年代。1984年，當時臉上冒著青春痘、凡事一知半解裝大人的我，模仿哥哥轉到ICRT或播放西洋歌曲的頻道，聽著由陌生語言推砌起來的音符。也因為對歌詞含意完全不懂，更讓我專注於聆聽編曲，竟然就這樣一頭栽進音樂世界。
在我的青少年時期，傳統唱片已經走入黃昏，錄音帶Cassette正大興旗鼓著。當時，我最喜歡拿A面、B面加起來長達60分鐘的卡帶，將收音機裡的歌曲錄下來，當然最期盼的就是周日American Top 40，尤其到節目後段進入Top 10時，我就隨時待命，DJ話語一歇立刻按下錄音鍵，把幾條好歌收集起來聽個夠…。
後來，部分唱片行提供代客錄音服務，只要開個清單，店家就會把你要的歌曲收錄進去，成為個人專屬卡帶，在那個沒著作權干預的時代，可讓我如同置身於天堂般夢幻。幾年之後，音樂聽得越來越重口味，八零年代末期搖滾崛起，也和幾個朋友湊熱鬧組樂團，聽得不過癮還要自己彈唱。
每次聽到Bryan Adams唱的這首Summer of ’69好有感覺，雖然我在八零年代喜歡的歌曲不勝枚舉，但這條歌曲卻反映出那時的種種崇憬與幻想，幾十年過去了！朋友們早就一哄而散，剩下只有歌曲喚起的片段和回憶，若你也跟我同個年代，就一起聆聽音樂回到過去吧！若我們錯過時間點，相信我！八零年代真的好有意思。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuf2YtXs7ak
Bryan Adams
Summer of ’69 from Reckless 1984
I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of ’69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we’d never get far
Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I’d always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain’t no use in complainin’
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin’s down at the drive-in
And that’s when I met you
Standin’ on your mama’s porch
You told me that you’d wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of ’69
Man we were killin’ time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin’ can last forever - forever, no
And now the times are changin’
Look at everything that’s come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong
Standin’ on your mama’s porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of ’69
