"Distant Sun" was released in 1993 by the Australian Rock Group Crowded House. Crowded House have some amazing hits.My Brother had their entire album of songs and I would hear it play from his room all the time.
However I was formerly introduced to "Distant Sun" when I was 15. It was our ( my friend and my) first job we ever had and it was working at a clothing retail store and we were sooo excited. We used to act like idiots , she would be the sales person and I would be the customer and we would practice and reverse the roles because we wanted to be as prepared as possible!Why ? How could we have been excited to work ?. I guess there was this sense of independence mixed with the feeling of something new that we were doing for ourselves and earning an hourly wage( looking back that was extremely stingy pay) but we were respectable spoilt brats(least we thought we were and lets make this clear.. we didn't think we were spoilt or brats for that matter). Well not spoilt relatively speaking compared to some other SAPs ( no not South African Police force , I'm talking about South African Princesses). Well lets call a spade a spade, we were spoilt. This just made it more okay to be that way. So it ended up being a very exciting time (for a limited time ) till our nasty boss started to put up a rosta of times we would be working which ended up changing from every weekend to only being every second week, sometimes we didn't even get to work once in 3 weeks. She was a real cow. You know the type that hold on to their youth , an immaculate woman( I was a bit jealous) I give her credit ( she was a good 10 years our senior) Now she's 40 and I saw her at the gym teaching classes ( well bad news is she's still immaculate- good news is she does look more mature )
Back to work ,I just wanted to sit down to be honest , standing for hours, folding clothes non stop even when they were folded and the shop was empty, we had to pretend we were busy and fold folded clothes..is that normal?Nothing about this was normal .My appetite was only increasing rather steadily, lucky for all the good food in the centre at the time. I managed to satisfy my hunger. However the music they played was pretty good, especially "Distant Sun" , I would always hear it playing , that song and food always kept me going. Despite how bad it all sounds my friend and I managed to keep it altogether , now looking back and hearing this song ..it's all funny, funny memories looking back. However I will never work in a retail clothing store as a salesperson ever again. UNLESS I own the store and I get to pick the music!
Did I mention my brother ended up giving me ( although some might disagree) the Crowded House CD which I misplaced one sunny day. I replaced it later on though, I replaced it and kept it for myself :) well noone noticed I don't think.
Heres the video ....
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