So I was driving to work today and I decided to tune in to one of the dance stations I have programmed on my car radio. Here in the NYC area, we have 2 dance stations, KTU (which plays new and old dance mixes) and Mix 102.7 (which plays mostly classic dance mixes). So I’m driving and I go to KTU, and I hear those familiar words being sung:
“Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin', and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.”
Yeah! I can groove to the Bee-Gee’s while driving. So the song ends and I jump over to Mix 102.7 and what do I hear?
“Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother, you're stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin', and we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive. Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive.”
A-ha! Even better the second time around! Now my mind starts going from one thing to the next. I’m only 28, so I never had the privilege of going through the 70’s disco era. So during my time of going clubbing, the voices that echoed in the dance clubs where Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, Puff Daddy, Ma$e, and most techno songs from the late 90’s, instead of the Bee-Gees, Blondie, Gloria Gaynor, etc. So I’ve always wondered what it would have been like. But there was 1 time I got to experience what it would have been like. Let me introduce you to a place called Polly Esthers. If you’re not familiar, Polly Esthers is a chain of retro dance clubs that play 70’s and 80’s music. There are some in NYC, Washington DC, Denver, and a few other places across the country. Anyway, during our first year of marriage, when we lived in the DC area, my wife Mica and I decided to go to Polly Esthers one Saturday night. So we get there, pay at the door, and we walk in. Now the one in DC has 2 levels. The bottom floor is all 80’s music. So you are greeted when you first walk in by the sounds of A-Ha, Tears for Fears, Prince, Bananarama, Huey Lewis, and so on. At the bar there are drinks like Purple Rain, The Ghostbuster, and Back To The Future. We hang out there for a while and I ask my wife to go upstairs. So we go upstairs and while we’re walking up, I can hear the song playing getting louder and louder. It’s “Disco Inferno”! And we walk in and what do I see? Charlie’s Angels lunchboxes displayed above the bar! Saturday Night Fever posters! Starsky and Hutch! Pictures from the movie Grease along the wall! This was awesome!! So now I got a taste of what it was like in the 70’s.
What is the point of all this? I have no freaking idea. It was just a good memory I had and it made me smile. Maybe you had a memory like that too. I think that’s an awesome thing how these memories just pop in our head, and can change how we’re feeling at that moment.
Now get on your platforms and start dancing!
3 comments:
I love it! We should throw a 70's party sometime!
Why is it that Christian spend so much time debating, complaining and just being misrable when we should be dancing?
I had a similar experience recently while ridign with a friend. He dropped Chronic by Dre. Holy smokes- how is it I still know every single lyric to a cd I listen to back in 9 duece?
If Mark D in Seattle is the cussing pastor, can I be the swearing saint?
Only if I get a T-shirt that says, "Friend of the swearing saint". =)
Dylan if this is you, I wanna hear you sing "Nuthin' but a G-thang" at our next meeting. I'll bring the gin, you bring the juice.
I was listening to Black Eyed Peas yesterday in the car and dancing. Fun times!
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