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Welcome to WEEK 195 of 4T! (Video Episode #21) Air Supply – Now and Forever (1982) We Need to Own Our Pre-Coming-of-Age Tastes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_and_Forever_(Air_Supply_album) I never understood people who only listen to one or two kinds of music. Life is way more intricate and interesting than that. I believe your emotional maturity and openness are directly reflected in the type of music you listen to (and in other art you consume). I love punk. I love heavy metal. I love hip-hop. I love funk. I love grunge. I love about 35-400 other genres and subgenres, many of which are hard core, kick-ass, in your face. But I don’t play. I don’t front. I don’t posture. I lo
Welcome to WEEK 194 of 4T! (Video Episode #20) New Order – True Faith / 1963 (1987) From the Ashes of Joy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Faith_(song) Everything comes from something. The Beatles came from a mix of skiffle and American popular music of the 1950s. Bach wouldn’t have been Bach with out the lovely and talented Deiterich Buxtehude. Nirvana name checked both the Pixies and the Monkees, and damn if you can’t hear that convergence. (Fans of New Order, you know where I’m going with this.) Back in the late 1970s, goth emerged from the punk/post-punk scene as its own subgenre. Darker, sparser, more brooding, more atmospheric, but still raw like punk. Bauhaus. Siouxsie and
