Adam Randal Young, the mastermind behind Owl City, has this to say about the curious "January 28, 1986" track on his most recent album All Things Bright and Beautiful--
"There's a track on the new record called January 28, 1986 and it features a clip from Reagan when the space shuttle Challenger blew up that same year and it's kind of a sobering... piece, and it stuck me. I was actually born that same year, '86, my parents always used to talk about it and so it was always on my mind growing up and I felt like it would be a good thing, to pay dues to that, and I've just out of respect feature a little interlude on the record, that Reagan quote, and the idea behind it is that it's kind of a precursor to the following track on the record called Galaxies, just to kind of set up the premise of the following song and it's just a short little interlude and it was a fun thing to do. I'm glad it came together."
This quote was found on the YouTube video "Owl City: Track by Track - January 28, 1986" featuring Owl City himself speaking of the song. One thing I would like to note about this page here on SongMeanings is that it is called "January 28, 1896" instead of the correct title "January 28, 1986" as specified by Adam Young. It would have certainly been remarkable if we were able to build space shuttles in the late 19th century, now wouldn't it have been? ;)
Last but not least, I would like to say I am a huge Adam Young fan, from the dreamscape that is Owl City to the mysterious Port Blue, I am a fan of the majority of his musical creations. (Apart, maybe, from such oddities in the form of Chester McWiggins and the Kowboy Kidz, or The Grizzly. I'm assuming that was just some sort of phase in musical genius development, lol.) I only wish I could personally thank him for his marvelous works of art.
Adam Randal Young, the mastermind behind Owl City, has this to say about the curious "January 28, 1986" track on his most recent album All Things Bright and Beautiful--
"There's a track on the new record called January 28, 1986 and it features a clip from Reagan when the space shuttle Challenger blew up that same year and it's kind of a sobering... piece, and it stuck me. I was actually born that same year, '86, my parents always used to talk about it and so it was always on my mind growing up and I felt like it would be a good thing, to pay dues to that, and I've just out of respect feature a little interlude on the record, that Reagan quote, and the idea behind it is that it's kind of a precursor to the following track on the record called Galaxies, just to kind of set up the premise of the following song and it's just a short little interlude and it was a fun thing to do. I'm glad it came together."
This quote was found on the YouTube video "Owl City: Track by Track - January 28, 1986" featuring Owl City himself speaking of the song. One thing I would like to note about this page here on SongMeanings is that it is called "January 28, 1896" instead of the correct title "January 28, 1986" as specified by Adam Young. It would have certainly been remarkable if we were able to build space shuttles in the late 19th century, now wouldn't it have been? ;) Last but not least, I would like to say I am a huge Adam Young fan, from the dreamscape that is Owl City to the mysterious Port Blue, I am a fan of the majority of his musical creations. (Apart, maybe, from such oddities in the form of Chester McWiggins and the Kowboy Kidz, or The Grizzly. I'm assuming that was just some sort of phase in musical genius development, lol.) I only wish I could personally thank him for his marvelous works of art.