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Exhibit number one: The Leverett '80s Dance. At least half the play list consists of songs that no 21-year-old was old enough to remember hearing on the radio; nonetheless, everyone cheers gleefully with the imagined recognition of the music of their youth. Who was an ABBA fan before the great ABBA revival of the early '90s? Does anyone remember hearing the Violent Femmes "Blister in the Sun," that great staple of '80s dances, when it was first released? As a cultural institution, the '80s dance plays off of a nostalgia for a past that most of us never...
...Daniel, I thought this was an `80s mix," Josh inquires...
...radio is far from cooperative. Teeny-Pop and Femi-Rock abounds on the airwaves and after shouting down Josh's demands for 94.5, we turn to Daniel's CD collection. He announces that he has an `80s mix, and we react favorably. Track One: Eric Clapton's "Change the World...
...Fifteen Minutes" isn't about soup cans or time puns, pop art or `80s movies. Fifteen Minutes, in Andy's estimation, is how long each one of us will get in the spotlight. And that...
...80s, it was busy here," he says emphatically. "It has definitely slowed down...