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My Favorite Song from Every Year I’ve Been Alive (Part One: 1966–1979)
I do these because I hate myself
Last year I did a series on both my favorite film and favorite album from every year I’ve been alive. I really enjoyed those trips down memory lane (and the debates they sparked in the comments), and my plan was to do one covering my favorite songs from every year I’ve wandered the planet sometime soon after. You know what they say about the best laid plans, which is why the first installment has languished in my drafts folder for over a year.
I finally got sick of that draft mocking me, with its “last edited over 1 year ago” line under the title, and decided to finally write the damn thing. What I had forgotten was the amount of therapy that becomes necessary as a result of delving into your own past, even musically, but I soldiered on and have completed the first decade and a half (the real trauma doesn’t start until the 1980s anyway).
As with the earlier articles, I am breaking this up by decade simply because of the sheer size involved. I have lived for parts of seven decades; that’s a lot of music and will be a lot of words, even taking into consideration that I remember almost none of 1988. Don’t ask.
Since I was born in the mid-’60s, I am including those years with the 1970s (and will…
