Slightly Later Than Planned #1

#1 - I don't like Mondays - Boomtown Rats

Original Release Year - 1979 (me aged 3)

Picture the scene. A child receives a brand new toy. But not just any toy. This is a record player. It's a Fisher Price record player, but it plays records nonetheless. Grown up records too.

The modern equivalent would probably be me buying my daughter an Early Learning Centre MP3 player, I'm sure there is such a thing, so my parents clearly recognised the role that music would play in my life when they bought me that record player. And judging by my favourite song of all time, they seem to have crafted it as well; I can only assume that they bought the record in the first place.

I'm guessing most three year olds have a favourite song that is played ad infinitum in the car or at home. High School Musical probably. It was only when I was about 15 that I discovered that my favourite song was all about a high school shooting spree in January 1979. Brenda Ann Spencer just took potshots out of her bedroom window at the school opposite because she didn't like Mondays. Naturally I don't recall any of this, but the internet is a wonderful thing, and you can read about the inspiration to the song here.

All I remember is having this record on continually at bedtime. Maybe it's the lack of percussion that makes this track stand out from most, after all this was an era of punk fighting with disco, where drums made all the difference. And here was a number one single that had none.

It's been slightly peculiar nosing through all these old favourites of mine. What surprised me a little was that only one track is from the last decade. Does this mean I have grown weary of music, or that music has just grown weary?