The ’80 music is the best

Alexei Sorokin
2 min readJul 3, 2022

I’m not an old fart! I’m not nostalgic! I can’t even be nostalgic about the music of the ’80s because I was a child then, growing up in Soviet Moscow. My dad listened to a lot of Western Rock but it wasn’t specific to the eighties. Queen, Pink Floyd, Dire Straights. So I’m not reminiscing, not nostalgizing.

The statement about the ’80 music being the best actually came from my son a few months ago. My son! Born in the new millennium. And it’s not like he likes the stuff from the ’80 because I play a lot of it at home or in our car. I play all kinds of things. My love of pop music…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/