Blog: Consequence Of Sound

Do you believe in the end of the world? Neither did David Byrne , but he knew the rest of the country was holding on tight, waiting for what we were told was inevitable. Nothing seemed right in 1979. Nixon had just been pardoned after setting the gold standard for a Presidential scandal, and Jimmy Carter was left to pick up the mess that Gerald Ford sat on. Poor, poor Jimmy. We were slowly getting over our fear of Commies and giant mushroom clouds, while Vietnam was still a fresh enough wound, giving way to those obvious repercussions. In [...]