What a Y2K Teen Blasts in her Bedroom
Pump up the volume in the early 2000s – featuring artists like Alanis Morissette • Train • Elastica • The Chemical Brothers • Backstreet Boys • The Cranberries • Blur • The Libertines
Fab Four And The Russian Pirates Of Sound
Did you ever visit St. Petersburg in the early nineties?
If you did, my next question to you is: How many pirate CDs/DVDs did you bring home with you?
Quite a few, no doubt. A box set of the sitcom Friends perhaps? Or Sting’s entire catalog? Or maybe you just bought a few famous CDs like The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd and Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen…
From Tin Pan Alley To Spotify: Music And Its Many Formats
My ten-year-old son asked me the other day which Spotify playlists I listened to when I was a kid. I started laughing and told him that we didn’t have Spotify back then. And since I had just told him a few days before that none of the games he is playing on his iPhone existed when I was younger, he looked at me long and hard and finally asked, “If you didn’t have any of this stuff, what did you guys have on your iPhones then?” I looked at him equally long and finally said, “We didn’t have iPhones.”