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Well, maybe just a little. I want to challenge that whole trope about Gen X being raised on hose water and neglect. It’s out there in the inter-web-verse that Gen X grew up feral. I mean, yes, we did drink from the garden hose, but from someone who’s lived the Gen X lifestyle, let Read more
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Marc Bolan THAT ROCK AND ROLL LOOK PART I David Johansen and Sly Stone. Icons. News of their recent passing has lit a fire under me to get going on this piece. I’m merging several different ideas here; fashion and music, jeans and cigarettes, and some other randomness. If you find yourself reading my nonsense, Read more
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Late Boomers, early Generation X and music. And SNL Two things on my mind these last few months: the varied music my generation was exposed to and, since this year was the 50th anniversary of the cultural phenom that at one time was SNL, how those two converged in some interesting ways. Generation X music- Read more
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DO PEOPLE “HANG OUT” ANY MORE? Hanging out on the hood of my friend’s car. Summer 1984 Remember hanging out? Sitting around? Shooting the shit? Gabbing? Pondering? Talking about everything and nothing at all? Do people even talk anymore? Like in person? Scrolling through nostalgia accounts on Instagram, looking at photos of young people from Read more
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Let’s go back to 1979. Lately, for some reason I’ve been completely taken with the song Candy-O, which surprisingly was never released as a single. I’ve spent a good amount of time watching different live versions of The Cars perform this song. If you’ve read my previous work, or watched my YouTube channel, you know Read more
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Another take on the New Wave cred of my current favorite old band and a little review of the musical bounty of 1978. Here’s a topic that is adjacent to my obsession with The Cars: the music of 1978. I’ve hopped in the way back machine and have been reliving my past; specifically when I Read more
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WHAT A SHOW! It captured a moment in time and the fun this band was having at the start of their amazing run. I just re-read for the second time the 1997 Goldmine article The Cars: Shake it Up, Drive It Out by Steve Roeser. I had read parts of it several months ago but Read more
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And the year I graduated from high school. I followed a thread on Twitter (I still can’t call it X) started by @PreetBharara in which he posed the question “What was the best song of 1984?”. Impossible to choose. I have been meaning to write about the music of 1984 for a while now in Read more
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I frequently take walks around the village, through the neighborhood where I grew up, past houses where my friends lived, on streets where I hung out when I was a teenager, and most of the time the streets and sidewalks are empty. I wonder; where are all the kids? What are they doing and where Read more
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I’ve invested a lot of time recently in an entire subculture; people who write, blog, post, and make videos about musicians and bands and singers they remember from their formative years who may or may not still be around. This begs some questions. Why have I done this and why does this subculture exist? Why Read more
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