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The 25th Anniversary of some Terribly Timed Music Releases
My absolute and sincere apologies if anyone finds this insensitive or spurious, but I have often thought about how two albums that made a huge impact on me, and on so many, were released on September 11, 2001.
Bob Dylan’s Love and Theft was the continuation of a ‘comeback’ that started with the Time out of Mind album, and its songs changing up the flow of Dylan’s Neverending Tour —
Jay-Z’s The
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“Time heals all wounds; some broken hearts -- and most cases of writer's block.”
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―
“you told me once
about how they used
to build whole city states
out of poems
how everything you see here
is made out of
the bones of dreams
how having a stiff
drink with lorca meant
you had to write
everything down right away
lately the words just
won’t come”
―
about how they used
to build whole city states
out of poems
how everything you see here
is made out of
the bones of dreams
how having a stiff
drink with lorca meant
you had to write
everything down right away
lately the words just
won’t come”
―
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