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 my Greatest Record Ever Made! spotlight on "This Ain't The Summer Of Love" by Blue Öyster Cult.
This piece was never intended for my long-threatened book The Greatest Record Ever Made! (Volume 1), in part because of its overlap with the book's chapter about "Kim The Waitress" by Material Issue. Both pieces spring from my memory of a traumatic day in 1979, a lingering ache that also influenced my liner-note essays for the Flashcubes' Bright Lights and Flashcubes On Fire, my obituary of Joey Ramone, and a short story called "Dreaming Deadly." I sometimes feel guilty for writing about it, like I'm trying to wring a benefit out of tragedy. But that day stays with me. That memory stays with me. I have to write about it. It's not exactly cathartic...but it's necessary. Blue Öyster Cult's connection to that memory is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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