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A recovered archive, still unfolding. These are historical entries from 2015–2020, preserved for Nick’s review.

52 storiesNEWEST MEMORIES FIRST

Fifty-One to 51Nov 6, 2016DAY 45

Annie's Song

There’s something about the early seventies that is just so magical in my memory. I am always the first to tell people I had a really happy childhood. From as far back as my first memories up until the…

Fifty-One to 51Nov 5, 2016

DAY 46

Drive / If You Could Only See / Closing Time

Today I present three songs, so I’ll label this as some songs that still resonate from a really terrible year. Dichotomy much? There’s something about me that finds comfort in the music that played around…

Fifty-One to 51Nov 4, 2016DAY 47

What Is Love

If you were alive in the nineties, you know this song. You may know it as the theme for the Roxbury characters from SNL played by Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan. To me, it was way more that – it represented…

Fifty-One to 51Nov 3, 2016DAY 48

Mutual Surrender

I moved back to Long Island from the Poconos in the summer of 1985. A lot happened in such a small amount of time, not the least of which was discovering and falling in love with the new sound of new wave…

Fifty-One to 51Nov 2, 2016DAY 49

Sky High

Sky High is an unintentionally feel good song, despite the lyrics, from the mid-seventies. It’s about a break up that explodes. He sings about a girl who deceives him, but the pop horns and almost-disco…

Fifty-One to 51Nov 1, 2016DAY 50

See You In September

Song 50 is, I think, the oldest one on the list. Overall I don’t usually love the music of the sixties, with the obvious exception of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, but this one, as many songs do,…

Fifty-One to 51Oct 31, 2016DAY 51

Cough Syrup

Last year I’d borrowed the idea of blogging a '50 songs in 50 days' countdown to my 50th birthday, counting back (in no real particular order) my top favorite songs of all time. Most were ballads, some were…

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