8/ Anyway, this is it. The date of death for the American century, our short lived "post-history" American and western cultural, economic, and political hegemony writ large.
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9/ Its August 19, 1997. A beautiful summer day. You return to school soon. Your parents are listening to their new Fleetwood Mac CD, driving home from Camelot Music at the mall. You're thinking maybe some of your parents music isn't so lame after all (not that you'd tell them). Life Is Good.
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10/addendum #1: A friend also pointed this out to me: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones seminal performance of The Impression That I Get on SNL (hosted by Chris Farley!!!) happened two minths later, on October 25th.
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11/addendum #2: You didn't ask for it, but here's a hastily generated visual timeline
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Best song!
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It should be noted that Chris Farley OD'd a few weeks after this episode. Its really hard to find anything online from it but for the Bosstones performance.
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Yeah I remember when that happened. Devastating.
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And then Chris Farley died on December 18, 1997. I have all sorts of intel on the goings on backstage during that SNL, thanks to my secret ska lore. It was not pretty.
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