Galaxie 500 and the Cold War
Mark Richardson at Pitchfork had a good column on Galaxie 500 and the Cold War this past week. The 80s started with Hardcore Punk and as much anger as possible against the Reagan administration. By the end of that decade, it was a kind of psychedelic exhaustion. We all just wanted escape from the unreal, growing, conservative state. We saw the drinking age go up. We saw sexual premissiveness vaporize under the blue flame of AIDS. We saw a decline in industrial jobs that continues to this day.
Sadly, I can’t bring myself to stop listening to the latest Akron/Family & Angels of Light CD in order to spin my old vinyl of On Fire and Today.
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