Late For My Life

Throwback albums from 1974

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Troy Larson issued a challenge that Paul Combs, at least, answered. Their columns are right here:

What’s Your Ultimate Throwback Album Playlist?

My Five Favorite Albums from a Truly Pivotal Period in My Misspent Youth

The challenge is to think about your youth (or young personhood) and pick five or six albums that helped define you or spoke to you in those angst-ridden moments. Because, Because (repetition intentional in case my wife is proofreading) nothing says angst like being fully immature but thinking you are fully the other way.

I’m picking 1974, the year I turned 18 (and I can sure as s*** tell you that I had no idea what I wanted, making me Alice Cooper’s soul brother). That fall I started college at a place that had once been a hotbed for campus radicalism, or what passes as radicalism in the sovereign state of mind that is Alabama.