Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap Reloaded Music has a peculiar relationship with memory. A novel asks for hours of attention, a film perhaps two, but a song can alter someone's emotional landscape in less time than it takes to boil water. Three minutes of recorded sound can become inseparable from a first love, a political movement, a road trip, a funeral, or an entire generation. Long after people forget where they learned a historical fact, they remember where they first heard a particular song. Popular music has become one of the primary archives through which modern societies remember themselves. That is why Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap deserves to be understood as something more than a classic-rock radio program. It is an oral history of modern culture, told through records. Every episode peels away the polished surface of familiar songs to reveal the countless decisions, accidents, friendships, rivalries, technical innovations, and historical...
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