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orthoclad

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64. The expressiveness of that one piece

Sat Jul 4, 2026, 03:07 PM

Jul 4

is stunning. It summarized the late 60s (68-72*) perfectly. The terror, the sarcasm, the grief, the plastic idolatry of the war machine, maybe the single most eloquent song ever. Played to an emptying woodstock, the ground littered with debris like a battlefield the day after, wounded stragglers retreating.

*the 60s started early and ended late. the following 70s were the lamest decade ever, with a very few exceptions. That song was the high water mark, as Thompson described in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

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