Album Review: "The Desired Effect" by Brandon Flowers

Culture is cyclical. Every so many years, people get nostalgic and start re-creating things from their childhood. We just have to wait around thirty years or so until the people who were too young to do anything but lionize the artists of the time to be the ones creating the art. For instance, sitcom characters of the early 2000s had plenty of references to '70s shows, but more recently we've got shows with explicit mentions of '80s shows like Community's extended riff on who the actual boss of Who's The Boss was, 30 Rock's ridiculous Night Court reunion, or any random Happy Endings episode mentioning anything from The Golden Girls to Three's Company. There's been a rash of filmmakers putting out passion projects that are very reminiscent of E.T./Close Encounters of the Third Kind-era Spielberg, like JJ Abrams' Super 8 and Brad Bird's Tomorrowland. These are the movies that these guys have spent years trying to get to a position of power so that they can make, and they are clearly influenced by spectacle-worshipping films of the '80s. My point is, it seems like it takes about three decades for things to become cool again.

One at a Time: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) by The Beatles

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#1 "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) by The Beatles