The 50th anniversary of Saturday Night Live hit differently for me. Half a century is a milestone that demands more than a nostalgic glance backward — it demands the full archaeological dig. So I did what any reasonable person with an overactive sense of completionism would do: I started at the very beginning, all theContinue reading “Live From 1975, It’s Saturday Night: A Season 1 Review”
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Thank goodness for the 80s!
The mid-’70s were a low point for American popular music. This period marked the exit of folk and rock and roll while disco and harder rock had yet to hit their respective strides. In the vacuum between there was . . . a bunch of generic-sounding R&B and soft rock, bleh. Seriously, if I hearContinue reading “Thank goodness for the 80s!”