But for all the sobs, nothing beat running for that 'Last Train' like chasing after the carriage your lover departs on (bye, Chandler).
You just had to pop in this pop art throwback. Even the sports car riding commercial campaigns drove this motion home like a cassette into the tape deck. Or glass imitations like our 'Friend' Joey Tribbiani when he broke up with Chandler. From 'Shot In The Dark' videos that rotary phone dialled up references to that revered time and staring through windows of rain clichés. Synths scintillating you like a Springsteen 'Human Touch', the on fire 'Battle Studies' of this young pretender heading through a tunnel of love to lucky town had everything you could want from the hair spray days of perms and mullets. Great Scott! This was something you kids might not have got, but your parents for sure were always going to love it. Now realising they're as old as Doc Brown. Missing the good ole days like they do their hairlines. Mayer's times gone by mesmerizing 'Sob Rock' guaranteed not a dry eye in the mothers basements of those still living in their second childhood. I was excited as the New Yorker watching the premiere of the then new 'Spider-Man' sequel ('Far From Home') next to me (again pre-corona) when in the movie Spidey actually landed in front of the cinema adjacent to Madison Square Garden that we were actually watching the movie in ("HA! He's outside!"). Set not only in the year, but the month I was born in 1985. What else can you expect for an 80's baby like me taken back to the future with a haircut still stuck in that past (what's left of it anyway)? A man so obsessed with the videotape nostalgia of 'Stranger Things' like he was the time he went to New York in the pre-COVID Summer of 2019 for the fourth of July fireworks to coincide with the independence day themed (no, not just welcoming aliens to earth) third season of 'Things'. I'm sorry Tyler! But this is my favourite creation.
Just like the 'Continuum' classic album man's latest LP 'Sob Rock' was going to be for the record because of it's 80's porn. Because even this Christmas, 'tis the season. Catching the 'Last Train Home' conducted by John Mayer and its locked down video quarantined in Union Station (similar to this year's Regina King hosted Oscar's like 'One Night In Miami') was always going to be my song of the Summer and therefore year.
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