A little rant before we get down to serious business of music challenges.

There are a few things that fall outside the normal parent child relationship. Like I never had the urge to discuss certain personal habits with my mother, even though she said we could talk about anything, her middle age infatuations with other people that isn’t my father falls into this category. 😀

I do not really want the new man to come and stay with me and Mark just because we should ‘get to know each other’, and suggesting it is not about being practical, and it is certainly not about me resisting her new partner because of any father-issues. Practicality is for us to meet them together when she moves here. It is not practical for him to come and stay a couple of days to “get to know me and Mark”. That is just awkward.

I am very pleased that my parents move on with their lives, and I have no problems with them finding new partners, and I will even show up for the stag parties – if there ever are any. There is no lingering sense of resentment and jealousy and whatever, and I am genuinely happy for them.

Since mum told me that there “was someone” I have been supportive and all that, and have wished them the best of luck. I will lavish praise, and give honest opinions if asked, and I feel that mum can ask me anything. Except for devoting days and days to entertain the new man without her being here.

It is not a question of being practical, since she is in Sweden and the new man is in London, for us to meet that way. My suggestion is that mum moves her stuff over, gets settled in, and then invite us over for a visit. Then I will be the essence of the supportive and understanding son. Demanding that the man should come here for three days makes me sign off this protest thus:

Your loving son, Annoyed from Tunbridge Wells

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Because of the above, I was in a very foul mood yesterday, and didn’t think it would be wise for me to cruise the interwebz. Who knows what might happen? I might come up with an idea to challenge everyone and annoy them so that they will never read my blog again, and to make them feel uncomfortabl because they feel that they have to be polite’.

Anyway, since my mood made me dive into the youtubes to distract me from the wider internet, I basically spent all evening listening to music from the 1980s. I compiled this list of songs that I liked, and now I’ll throw the challenge over to Angry Ricky, Dadpoet and Jerbear and ACFlory.

  • Pick a decade
  • Pick one favourite song for each year of the decade. You can pick any decade. If you think my 80:s list is rubbish, create your own!
  • Then like the good chainmail this probably is, pick three blogs you follow, and tell them to do this too. At least this way, it’s not “an award” but rather an insight into the musical tastes of the posters.

I forgot to include 1980 😦 – and it was the most depressing song of all. But that’s Swedes for you.

1980, Abba, “The winner takes it all”
1981, Blondie, “Call Me”
1982, The Human League, “Don’t you want me”
1983, The Clash, “Rock the Casbah”
1984, Eurythmics, “Sweet Dreams”
1985, Dire Straits, “Money for nothing”
1986, Peter Gabriel, “Sledgehammer”
1987, Guns n Roses, “Welcome to the jungle”
1988, Pet Shop Boys, “Always on my mind”
1989, Roy Orbison, “You got it”