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Artist:

The Eagles (Rock)

Song:

Already Gone

Album: 

Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975

Year: 

1976
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wedge | MEMORY FROM 1979

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

LOCATION: George C Marshall HS , Vienna, VA

YEAR: 1979

TAGS: HS

PUBLISHED: February 28, 2008

    During the 70's we went through a period where good music was hard to find. The radio played all the same songs and the internet was yet to be invented. The punk movement had not really been advertised in my part of suburbia, but that did not mean we were deficient in anti-establishment feeling - just as all generations of teens.

    Throughout my senior year of high school I enjoyed hearing this song, which doubtless ended numerous mix-tapes in the car (yes, those were cassettes - at least they were not eight-tracks). I was more than ready for school to end by the end of September, but of course had to put in the hours at school requisite to matriculate. That last year in school there was a lot of change for me, saying goodbye to friends who were not anymore, etc. And this song kept the whole year in perspective for me. It was a F*%$ you song before you could get away with saying that on the radio. And that's what it has always meant to me, despite the fact that I listen to many bands that express that sentiment in a more direct manner nowadays.

    And yes, people my age have plenty of anti-establishment left in them.

     

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alynn said: Hooray for the last line of this memory. Rebels never really die. (4/21/2008)

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