The Day "Jeremy" Swam to the Siren

 

Trevor Wilson, best known to the world as “Jeremy” in the award-winning music video directed by Mark Pellington for grunge superstars Pearl Jam, drowned while swimming at a Puerto Rican beach notorious for its dangerous riptides, ten years ago today.

The Crossing in the Year That Broke Reality

Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the release of The Crossing, an album that didn't come to my attention until late September of that momentous year. Still and all, it came to rule my autumn of 1983, so much so that I had a little ritual where I'd give it a spin every year whenever the first chill of fall set in. 

Oh, I Got Your Secret History Right Here, Pal.

It felt good to dive back into this topic. Come on in, the water's fine.

Should I Strange or Should I Go?

Today is the 10th anniversary of the premiere of the first series of Stranger Things. By that I mean the real Stranger Things - the only Stranger Things - not the clownish cartoons that wore the name and trappings of it like a skinsuit.

The Great Eighties Playlist Project in Now Complete.

Well, it seemed to take forever but I'm finally finished with my Eighties playlist project. These things take time, OK? Perfection can't be hurried.

1987 Alternative Rock Top 40

1987 was a turning point for Eighties rock: Boomercentric classic rock was starting to fade again after getting a big corporate push in the mid-Eighties, GenX metal and alternative rock were on the ascendancy, and the Top 40 was rapidly losing the luster it had just three years prior.