http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2002-2006 by the authors Fri, 28 May 2004 19:12:11 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/05/27/141642.php#comment-66306 I was born in late 1969, which means I was 9 years old for most of 1979, and the impression I was left with was that this was not the same decade I'd grown up with. Just a few years from puberty, I found things changing. While I danced to M's "Pop Music," the shift from Carter's liberalism to Reagan's conservatism took place in America while on the world stage, Iran had finally asserted itself, and drastically. It was the year of an anti-disco riot at Comiskey Park, Chicago. It was when punk started to evolve into new wave, and even Billy Joel took notice. "Glass Houses" was quite a departure from his previous 1978 offering, "52nd Street." I don't know all that much about folk music, but I'm sure that began to change in 1979 too. I'd say it was an apt way to end the '70s and enter the '80s; in fact, the perfect blend of the two decades would have to be 1979 itself. ]]> 66306@blogcritics.org Fri, 28 May 2004 19:12:11 EDT