I remember rocking out to Basement Jaxx’s “Good Luck” with my sister when we’d come downstairs for breaks after long stretches of studying for our high school finals. Right before trudging back up to our rooms to work, we’d play the song at full volume and totally let go for its 4 min, some-odd seconds.
I’ve rediscovered the Jaxx (after carefully re-curating my iTunes, an activity perfect for New Years’ Day) as well as a few other blasts from the past like Gogol Bordello, The Proclaimers, Colin Hay (famous for this musical cameo on Scrubs), las Orishas (who I first heard in one of the salsa club scenes in Along Came Polly), and the Stray Cats (whose title song I played with the summer camp band I was in when I was 10-12). Ten years from now, I wonder what I’ll be looking back on.
