20-Year Distances

I bought a compilation album named Alternative Eighties twenty years ago yesterday (or possibly today, but I am 95% sure it was yesterday). Either way, I listened to most of it yesterday and something struck me.

Back when I bought the CD, we were twenty years removed from 1982. Now, we're twenty years the other way from 2002.

If you had asked me - in 2002 - how long it has felt since 1982, I would have indicated that it was a long time ago. If you ask me today - in 2022 - how long ago 2002 seems, I'd indicate that it seems to have came quicker.

Funny isn't, it?

The album contains the following tracks: 

1. Rock The Casbah by The Clash
2. The First Picture Of You by The Lotus Eater
3. Pretty In Pink by The Psychedelic Furs
4. Brilliant Mind by Furniture
5. Love Is A Wonderful Colour by The Icicle Works
6. Life In A Northern Town by The Dream Academy
7. Blue Monday by New Order
8. The King Of Rock 'N Roll by Prefab Sprout
9. I'm In Love With A German Film Star by The Passions
10. Digging Your Scene by The Blow Monkeys
11. Ziggy Stardust by Bauhaus
12. Birthday by The Sugarcubes
13. Another Girl, Another Planet by The Only Ones
14. E=MC2 by Big Audio Dynamite
15. Never Never by The Assembly
16. Crash by The Primitives
17. World Shut Your Mouth by Julian Cope
18. There's A Ghost In My House by The Fall
19. Are Friends Electric? by Tubeway Army
20. She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult
21. The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen
22. Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
23. Party Fears Two by The Associates
24. Liberator by Spear Of Destiny
25. Reward by The Teardrop Explodes
26. (Feels Like) Heaven by Fiction Factory
27. Young At Heart by The Bluebells
28. I Could Be Happy by Altered Images
29. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops by Cocteau Twins
30. Sometimes by Erasure
31. This Is The Day by The The
32. Sonic Boom Boy by Westworld
33. Living On The Ceiling by Blancmange
34. Lost Weekend by Lloyd Cole and The Commotions
35. Everyday I Write The Book by Elvis Costello and The Attractions
36. Shout To The Top by The Style Council
37. Always The Sun by The Stranglers
38. Dirty Old Town by The Pogues
39. A New England by Kirsty MacColl