I got into a big fight with my mother right after coming home last June after 20 years of living abroad.
It happened at a small family gathering with my parents, my brother and his family. One of my nieces who was a highschool freshman was telling me about who were popular in the Japanese popular music scene these days. I told her that I used to be really into music when I was her age and asked my mother where all my old records were. I used to have quite a collection of records. From the Idol Pop of the 80s to the underground punk / New Wave and everything in between.
I just could not believe it when my mother told me she had thrown them away when they moved into my grandmother's old house a few years prior. OK, granted that she never thought I would come back and it was taking up storage space, it was MY stuff!!!
You know, in the movies, a mother would hold onto her dead child's school arts & craft projects looooong after the unfortunate trafic accident. My mother, who knew how much those records meant to her son, just got rid of them. I was REALLY upset and said things a grown up is not supposed to say to his elderly mother. She just couldn't understand why her 38 year old son was so upset over a bunch of old records. She even attempted to change the subject! The NERVE!!
Anyway, in the following months, I have been trying to replace those records via the internet auctions and posting ads on the internet forums. I have bought about 50 of them so far ( it turns out a lot of those records have since been re-issued on CD ). Sadly, while it is certainly nice to listen to the songs I used to love after so many years, the majority of them leaves me wondering, "What was I Thinking!?", and these are the songs I thought were THE BESTEST IN THE WORLD.
They say that a piece of music really takes you back to the time long gone. It really does. The thing is, though, it embarrass me to the next galaxy to remember the teenage version of myself alone in my room, listening to SOMEDAY by 債ｲ窶禿ｬﾅ陳ｳ春 (Motoharu Sano), going "This is IT!! The SHIZNIT!! The song is about ME!! 😭".
For those of you who are not familiar with Mr. Sano, he's a singer-songwriter who used to be, and still is to a certain degree, very popular among those of us who were "hip".
If you're curious what the song SOMEDAY is like, it is a total rip off of Bruce Springsteen's Hungry Heart.
If you don't know who Springsteen is, you're probably very young, so start being extra extra nice to your mom NOW so she wouldn't throw out your CDs / delete your MP3 files the minute you leave home.
It happened at a small family gathering with my parents, my brother and his family. One of my nieces who was a highschool freshman was telling me about who were popular in the Japanese popular music scene these days. I told her that I used to be really into music when I was her age and asked my mother where all my old records were. I used to have quite a collection of records. From the Idol Pop of the 80s to the underground punk / New Wave and everything in between.
I just could not believe it when my mother told me she had thrown them away when they moved into my grandmother's old house a few years prior. OK, granted that she never thought I would come back and it was taking up storage space, it was MY stuff!!!
You know, in the movies, a mother would hold onto her dead child's school arts & craft projects looooong after the unfortunate trafic accident. My mother, who knew how much those records meant to her son, just got rid of them. I was REALLY upset and said things a grown up is not supposed to say to his elderly mother. She just couldn't understand why her 38 year old son was so upset over a bunch of old records. She even attempted to change the subject! The NERVE!!
Anyway, in the following months, I have been trying to replace those records via the internet auctions and posting ads on the internet forums. I have bought about 50 of them so far ( it turns out a lot of those records have since been re-issued on CD ). Sadly, while it is certainly nice to listen to the songs I used to love after so many years, the majority of them leaves me wondering, "What was I Thinking!?", and these are the songs I thought were THE BESTEST IN THE WORLD.
They say that a piece of music really takes you back to the time long gone. It really does. The thing is, though, it embarrass me to the next galaxy to remember the teenage version of myself alone in my room, listening to SOMEDAY by 債ｲ窶禿ｬﾅ陳ｳ春 (Motoharu Sano), going "This is IT!! The SHIZNIT!! The song is about ME!! 😭".
For those of you who are not familiar with Mr. Sano, he's a singer-songwriter who used to be, and still is to a certain degree, very popular among those of us who were "hip".
If you're curious what the song SOMEDAY is like, it is a total rip off of Bruce Springsteen's Hungry Heart.
If you don't know who Springsteen is, you're probably very young, so start being extra extra nice to your mom NOW so she wouldn't throw out your CDs / delete your MP3 files the minute you leave home.
