It’s the 80s, So Where’s Our Rocket Packs? Thus asked the band Daniel Amos in one of their songs off their classic 1984 album Vox Humana.
I’m a sucker for nostalgia, even though as Yogi Berra once said, “Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.” One of my favorite Mystery Science Theater riffs was during a 1950s sci-fi film, featuring a moon base and a space fleet, it was cited as 1988; the riff was “Oh, this is our old future.”
Similarly, it’s kinda funny to hear a 27 year-old tune lamenting the scientific advances that did not yet happen, which still have not come to pass (“I thought by now we’d live in space/And eat a pill instead of dinner”). Here the song It’s The 80s, So Where’s Our Rocket Packs is put to music video in the form of the olde time, goofy science fiction films and serials like Commander Cody, that provided the as yet false hope. Enjoy, won’t you?
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