


How you feel about those albums now is the second level. There is the music you listened to then, and how you felt about it then. Perhaps you agree with us that your relationship to those albums exists on three levels. MATTHEW: Think back to the year you turned 17, to the albums of that year and the year before. Do they still sound good? Did they ever?! In the web that is our own, we begin again…. It’s time to address their role in all the humbling escapades and misguided daydreams that unfolded as they played. Join us as we revisit the albums that were soundtracking our respective graduations to “adulthood” and compare our favorites. Which is of course the most important gauge as to whether or not a year was “good.” Step into the PuR time machine as Matthew Restall & I (Hope) bravely venture back to 19, our 16th and 17th years of life (for real). In my case this sentiment only applied to the records I bought. “When I was seventeen, it was a very good year,” or so that old Frank Sinatra song goes.
