Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is the first installment of my rock magazine reminiscence He Buys Every Rock 'n' Roll Book On The Magazine Stands, commencing with a look back at reading Circus and Rolling Stone in the '70s.
This was originally planned as a multi-part series celebrating the rock rags I read in the '70s and '80s. That's still the plan, but I kinda thought I would have completed it by now. Following this introductory chapter, some near-future Boppin' Pop-A-Loozas will reprise the Phonograph Record Magazine and Bomp! magazine entries, and I'll presumably get around to writing the CREEM chapter in the near future, with more zine coverage to follow thereafter.
In the mean time, my musical mind set in this period was covered in detail in an extended piece called "Imagining/Remembering The Music That Played," which attempted to simulate what would have been my all-time Hot 100s if someone asked me to list them and then update them each year from 1976 (when I was 16) through 1982 (when I was 22). Apparently I liked The Beatles a lot. It's a de facto autobiography told in the songs I liked the most, annotated with memories of what it was like to be me at the time.
And the ideas of what songs I liked were fed in part by the rock magazines I read. He Buys Every Rock 'n' Roll Book On The Magazine Stands: A look back at reading Circus and Rolling Stone when I was a teen in the '70s provides the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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