I might have been influenced by my 4th grade music teacher, Ms
  Greene. Time travel - hop in my TARDIS:
  I'm 10 yrs old. 1982. "Star Blazers" was the only Anime
  available [it didn't exist as a Genre yet] - which I also
  watched over one summer obsessively.

  It's October 1982. Pink Floyd's The Wall had just been released
  a few months before.

  She plays what was "New Music" at the time. "We don't need no
  education" for us and teaches us to sing it.

  She got fired a month later because of it. They thought us 4th
  graders would burn the school, set desks on fire, cause havoc
  and anarchy. We were not allowed to sing the song anywhere on
  school premises.

  So yeah, Goes WAY back tongue emoticon