Blog: NPR Music: Monitor Mix

By Carrie Brownstein When I think of the passing of a decade, I always think of "Do You Remember Rock n' Roll Radio" by the Ramones: "It's the end, the end of the '70s / It's the end, the end of the century," they sang. The words conjure both a yearning for the past and the triumph of completion, as in, "We made it." Of course, 1980 was technically 20 years away from the end of the 20th century. Perhaps the Ramones were just looking at the big picture, or maybe they [...]