Friday, December 19, 2003
In today's Salon Premium, Eric Boehlert takes a deeper than usual look at the year's top ten in "The Greatest Week in Rock History."
Go ahead and subscribe or get a day pass and read the article. It's worth your trouble.
This is not your usual year end best of.
Eric's looking back, but not nostalgically, at the last week of 1969. Truthfully, writers of that time were coming up with very similar parallels because the truth was all over everyplace.
For the record, just as a list of historic events, 1968 wasn't that great, either. While that year may not have had as memorable a chart list, it did end with an historic record session that in hindsight seemed to presage the year that was to follow.
Boehlert, though, dares to compare and contrast charts separated by twenty years, the span of a single generation.
¶ 12/19/2003 09:59:00 PM
Go ahead and subscribe or get a day pass and read the article. It's worth your trouble.
This is not your usual year end best of.
Eric's looking back, but not nostalgically, at the last week of 1969. Truthfully, writers of that time were coming up with very similar parallels because the truth was all over everyplace.
For the record, just as a list of historic events, 1968 wasn't that great, either. While that year may not have had as memorable a chart list, it did end with an historic record session that in hindsight seemed to presage the year that was to follow.
Boehlert, though, dares to compare and contrast charts separated by twenty years, the span of a single generation.
¶ 12/19/2003 09:59:00 PM
