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title: "MEMORY LAN"

meaning: "90s LAN-party nostalgia: blow the cartridge, AIM ASCII art, cereal-box CD-ROM: grateful for the good times you can't fully return to."

year: 2023
release: "MÖB"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Luke Francis Walton. Mastered by Riley Knapp. Album art by Gentle Giant Illustrations."

apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/memory-lan/1708670332?i=1708670334"
spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/7kAZdCuQ89YJHbJQI0xeOB"
youtube: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAjzP-pIno"
officialVideo: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAjzP-pIno"

themes: ["nostalgia", "90s", "gaming", "MÖB", "memory"]

isrc: QZK6F2311050
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  The good ole days
  The good ole days

  On a sugar-high
  Blowing in the cartridge
  I swear it worked last time
  Smack it and restart it
  Gather round, that did the trick
  Burn my palm on the joystick
  Rumble pack so realistic
  Stop screen-watching me, dude

  Take me back
  I'm feeling nostalgic
  A 90s track
  Can you put on The Chronic
  Run it back
  Wanna see the colors like I used to
  What a throwback
  Gin and juice and tonic
  A cereal box
  With a CD-ROM on it
  Put it back
  Wanna feel happy like we used to

  Like we used to
  Yeah like we used to
  Can it be like it used to
  Back to what we're used to
  Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

  Feeling drunk off Cactus Cooler
  On AIM acting cooler than you
  Cause I got a new ASCII art to copy-paste
  Everybody brought a TV
  Getting ready for the LAN party
  We sleeping over tonight
  Don't fall asleep first
  Or you'll wake up with a tattoo
  And I wake up with a tattoo
  Mustache and a unibrow
  Looking like Anthony Davis
  Before he had a stylist

  Take me back
  I'm feeling nostalgic
  A 90s track
  Can you put on The Chronic
  Run it back
  Wanna see the colors like I used to
  What a throwback
  Gin and juice and tonic
  A cereal box
  With a CD-ROM on it
  Put it back
  Wanna feel happy like we used to

  Like we used to
  Yeah like we used to
  Can it be like it used to
  Back to what we're used to
  Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

  I am grateful
  I am thankful
  For all the good times with you
  Yeah having that time with you
  Said, I am grateful
  I am thankful
  For all the good times with you
  Yeah, having that time with you

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Track two on [*MÖB*](/albums/mob/). The title pun is the thesis: **memory** plus **LAN**, nostalgia as a local network where everyone brought a TV for the sleepover. The detail work dates you exactly, blowing into a cartridge, fresh ASCII art to copy-paste on AIM, *stop screen-watching me, dude*. Fall asleep first and you wake up tattooed, *looking like Anthony Davis before he had a stylist*.

Under the gags is a real ache. The chorus keeps reaching for *colors like I used to* while knowing the honest answer to *can it be like it used to* is no. [Ear to the Ground Music](https://www.eartothegroundmusic.co/2023/10/20/album-review-digging-into-the-soulful-stylings-of-scoobert-dooberts-new-mob/) heard it as nostalgic and groove-centered. The outro doesn't fix the loop, it thanks it: *I am grateful... for all the good times with you*. The Möbius move is wanting the past while admitting the party already ended.

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