Word: nevers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take these questions seriously. No matter how much psychiatric training my father may have, no matter how many times he rereads Freud, he will never learn to instill me with guilt like my mother can. Some things are beyond the realm of science...
...widely acceptable to denigrate rural Americans? The liberal Perspective, which would never apply derogatory labels to ethnic minorities or gays, thought nothing of calling rural Southerners "naive rednecks." It hasn't been that long since the Harvard Lampoon printed a public apology for being racially insensitive, but it has yet to apologize for a cover that depicted lazy, dirty Appalachians under the caption "Inbred and Brain Dead...
...switched tracks, and also seemed to be what you bought for such embarrassing works (mistakes?) as the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever, or anything by Andy Gibb, Bachman Turner Overdrive or Barry Manilow (yes, I admit it, I once owned this stuff; anyone who tells you they never did is lying...
...realize that it sounds the same as it ever did. You've grown up, but your album has stagnated in the late 1980s. That Sugar Cubes or Sinead O'Connor album that you played over and over again for a few months until it was warped and then you never listened to it again when the trend faded--if you own those albums on C.D. you won't remember that brief shining moment when you couldn't get the damned records off your turntable...
...fragile pieces of vinyl not meant to last a lifetime, maybe only worthy of one smudgy play, but they were still nice surprise samplers in odd corners of culture. The soul--or the lack thereof--of the compact disc is such a technological boy wonder that it will never be simplified into fun forms that you find near those ever-annoying subscription cards in magazine centerfolds...