![]() ![]() And quite possibly, they reminded me of you. Over the past few weeks, I went back and listened to the top 20 albums here, just to make sure, you know? And they reminded me of so many stories that happened, jokes that were made, fights that were had and things that nobody can ever discuss. This music was part of me in a way that I’ll never even be able to fully explain. ![]() It was all around all of the time: during loving and hating and playing and working and laughing and crying. So if you ever heard my radio show back in the day, you aren’t going to surprised by the albums listed here, even two decades down the road: I love what I love, you know? And this music was the soundtrack of my life like no other music from any other decade will ever be. It’s no use trying to write a big long essay defending the 80s, except to say that after punk rock came along and blew everything up, one of the biggest questions was “OK, now what?” These records are what I consider to be the answer to that question. ![]() It is, of course, a truism that we’re never as connected to any music as the music that gets to us in our 20s, and so it is here: I spent the bulk of my 20s in the 80s, and while the decade itself almost killed me, it was the music here that totally saved me. ![]()
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