Music for the Recession
- Posted by: GOOD
- on March 2, 2009 at 9:20 am
Chuck Eddy on why there isn’t a modern soundtrack to our economic woes.
When American Graffiti, revolving around a 1962 radio station’s “oldies weekend,” hit theaters in 1973, the pop hits of the 1950s—all newer then than the first Beastie Boys album is now—seemed ancient, as if dropped from some alternate universe. But over the past quarter-century, as songs of the 20th century’s early decades have rematerialized first on vinyl reissues, and then on CD box…
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