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...songs Richman wrote and performed during the early '70s are astonishing; they meld the sound of his beloved Velvet Underground and the Stooges with the typical teen rock concerns of girls, driving and insecurity, shot through with an unnerving simplicity and directness like nothing else in rock then or now. Also distinctive is Richman's voice, which I hesitate to describe as nasal and monotone, because it is far more appealing than that...
During this period Richman recorded his best known song: "Roadrunner." He takes two chords from the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" and makes "Roadrunner" one of the best rock songs ever recorded. The simple, affecting music is matched by the lyrics, which are both the typical rock song and about the power of that song: "I'm in love with Massachusetts/I'm in love with the radio on/It helps me from being lonely late at night/I don't feel so bad now in the car." Richman's probably sick of playing "Roadrunner," but people aren't sick of hearing...
Indeed, Bennahum describes how the social and familial element of computers took off in the early 1980s, a movement similar to how the Internet and email have revolutionized communication in the 1990s. Underground BBSes (bulletin board systems), which were most times run by people out of their homes, contained illegal software to download. The precious phone numbers of these BBSes were passed around among friends in a sort of Underground Railroad of computer users. His high school computer lab was a close-knit community where more experienced users shared their knowledge with younger users eager to soak up their expertise...
...order to connect the buildings underground, they're going to need public approval, so the public is going to be heard sooner or later," he said. "Even if Harvard wanted to be a bad neighbor, they probably wouldn't have any choice...
...countercultural youth trend first reared its spiky head at the start of the '90s with the mass popularity of "alternative" music. We see it in the ascent of neohippie raves and the creative anarchy that still holds its own on the Internet. Indeed, if thousands were identifying with small underground papers in the '60s, millions access eccentric, irreverent webzines in the '90s. And then there are those polls that show teenagers switching from cocaine or abstention to marijuana, the perennial favorite of visionary altered statesmen throughout history...