Amazingly, Fleetwood Mac’s song “Dreams” is back on the charts this week, after 41 years. I thought this was a good time to reblog one of my favorite posts…
They say that the music you listen to in your high school years will stick with you for the rest of your life. I guess that’s true—but in a bad way. For me, high school intersected with the artistic dead-zone of the early 1980s, with Ronald Reagan in the white house and Billy Squire on the radio. I’m not sure which was worse. To this day, I still get a little nauseous whenever I hear Stroke Me on the oldies station.
If I had gone to high school either a little earlier or a little later, I would have been fine. As it was, I caught the years that were sandwiched between two great musical eras: the classic American rock period of the 1970s and the Prog-Rock Renaissance of the late 80s. I loved both periods, especially the 70s (pre-disco).
To me, the two greatest bands of the period were…
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