Word: nether
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four nether realms...
...Reading, and there I got off. I stood vacantly watching commuters and families getting into cars, until the tracks behind me were once again empty. I had come to this little town to bury my mind in forgetfulness; it wasn't exactly a desolate port in nether-Morocco, and I saw no boozy-eyed sirens waiting to lure me into a self-destructive spiral of wanton liberalism which would tragically end in the complete disappearance from my memory of the Pledge of Allegiance, a jail term and eventual furlough, but I decided to go explore anyway...
...latest legends to resurrect themselves from the nether region of memory are Wire, four British lads who, as the legend goes, re-invented music at the end of the 1970s. Their blend of the visceral and the experimental, grinding guitars and synthesized textures, spawned an outrageous number of disciples in the American and British underground. Bands as diverse as Sonic Youth, 100 Flowers, Sorry, and R.E.M. all pay homage at the Wire altar. Brilliant albums such as The Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154, the holy trinity of progressive rock, forever ensured Wire's place at the pinnacle of modern...
...LONG AGO, when I was back home in the nether-parts of Virginia, I attended a soiree with all of my old high school friends--or at least those who had recently been paroled...
...admiring my nether-face in the mirror below...