The first time I heard this song, I was ecstatic - finally there was a good New Years song (besides the ancient "Auld Lang Syne") out in the world! But when I heard the last verse, it ticked me off so bad - by including the "end of a decade" and the year "eighty-nine" in the lyrics, they ruined its staying power, making it useless for every other year afterwards! Did they not realize it was in a position to be the only pop song about New Years ever recorded? It could have been a classic, a perennial hit played every single December to this DAY, but they blew it.
I don't usually get this worked up about a pop song, but a missed opportunity of this magnitude makes me want to tear my hair out. Even now, if I thought they'd listen, I'd beg them to slightly change the lyrics and re-record this - there's still not a good pop New Year's song, so the niche is still wide open. Somebody, please, remake this with a slight rewrite! With (say) "end of an era" instead of "decade," and the final line as "In the endless grand design" or something, this song would be virtually immortal.
The first time I heard this song, I was ecstatic - finally there was a good New Years song (besides the ancient "Auld Lang Syne") out in the world! But when I heard the last verse, it ticked me off so bad - by including the "end of a decade" and the year "eighty-nine" in the lyrics, they ruined its staying power, making it useless for every other year afterwards! Did they not realize it was in a position to be the only pop song about New Years ever recorded? It could have been a classic, a perennial hit played every single December to this DAY, but they blew it.
I don't usually get this worked up about a pop song, but a missed opportunity of this magnitude makes me want to tear my hair out. Even now, if I thought they'd listen, I'd beg them to slightly change the lyrics and re-record this - there's still not a good pop New Year's song, so the niche is still wide open. Somebody, please, remake this with a slight rewrite! With (say) "end of an era" instead of "decade," and the final line as "In the endless grand design" or something, this song would be virtually immortal.
actually, when it's in the 2011's Winter Wonderland album, I heard it is ninety-nine.
actually, when it's in the 2011's Winter Wonderland album, I heard it is ninety-nine.