![]() ![]() One common reaction to these records’ semicentennials involves lamenting a perceived decline in all the popular music since, a long, slow erosion of craftsmanship and adventurousness perceptible in the comparatively low quality of newer songs’ lyrics, composition, performance, and even recording. Many in their great-grandparents’ generation probably went through a similar process: even if they loathed the then-audacious sounds of the Beach Boys or Bob Dylan or the Beatles, they eventually grew to recognize them, and even, sometimes, to grudgingly appreciate them. Or at least they know a fair number of their songs, many having developed that familiarity almost inadvertently. Despite never having owned any of these iconic albums myself, I know them when I hear them (mostly, these days, at Peter Cat), as, no doubt, do plenty of kids in the West 20 years younger than me. That same day, I later learned, also marked the 50th anniversary of Blonde on Blonde this year brought that of Sgt. ![]() Pet Sounds passed the 50th anniversary of its release about half a year after I moved to Korea. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
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