I think it was at the same dinner scene
where Julie makes up with Tommy
(--- when he puts his bracelet on her wrist but doesn't clasp it,
so that she has to keep her arm lying dead on the table)
- but before that,
Stacey (or Suzi or Samantha or one of them)
gets all choked up about some punk song on the juke box
because it's the one that was playing when she first met her boyfriend,
so that it's "their song".
The point being that the '50s & '60s were dead,
and "they're playing our song" would never again
refer to things like: "In the Still of the Night" or
"When a Man Loves a Woman" etc,
but to something like "Monster of Love" or "Johnny are you Queer?"
(but it wasn't either of those).
Not that the Valley Girl music was bad, or that
"Melt With You" etc weren't perfectly romantic.
Just that particular song on the jukebox
happened to be an unfortunate one to have to be imprinted
with at the instant of falling in love, (---like a newly hatched
chick's first visual experience being of a wolf
so that it hast to forever after think of that as its mother.)
Anyway, I'd really appreciated it if anyone can respond
with the exact quote I'm referring to, and to name the song..
thanks,
~greg
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