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80's Kitsch

I follow Emily Nussbaum on Twitter because I like her writing on TV shows in the New Yorker, and I met her once, and it gives me some erzat feeling of hanging out with the literati of NYC.  

She asked the question, what oral history are you wanting?

Someone said Styx and someone posted a book (sadly out of print) with a mini review: "It gets bogged down in the latter half, but the story of their rise, the payola involved, and the rise of Denis DeYoung as the creative leader was really interesting."

I started listening to Styx. Then I created an 80's kitsch playlist of songs I almost like but don't, and I listened to them a million times on classic rock radio. 

I met Richard Davis in Madison, so it wasn't all pop glop. I moved to NYC in 1990 and never looked back at classic rock, except when I was on a road trip and that's the only kind of station you can find sometimes. I know, I play podcasts and whatnot not, have finely curated playlists, but somehow I think I'll be playing this one.

Styx was a band 1972-1984. They got together a few times after that. I love the graphic of who was in the band when. When I say the 80's I guess I mean 1975-1985.

There, I'm done, satisfied my curiosity. I'm no music historian, here's the wikipedia article.

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