- Tom Lehrer’s “That Was the Year That Was”: Lehrer’s best album, now in live video. I absorbed it as a young boy in the mid ’60s, listening to the LP, lying on the floor of my older brother’s room; I learned what nuclear proliferation was, and who Werner von Braun was, and what “genuflect” meant, and carefully untangled lines like “While we’re attacking frontally / Watch Brink-e-ley and Hunt-e-ley / Describing contrapuntally / The cities we have lost…” to try to understand them. Still holds up for the next generation; my kids are totally into “Pollution.”
- MAMK.net | Blog Archive | Discussion: The Power of Networks: Brian Eno and Clay Shirky. Two incredibly smart men with imposing hairless pates! Execrable audio, though it gets a bit better as the file advances.
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