Glancing at the list of this year's 50 additions to The Library of Congress's National Recording Registry I was surprised and pleased to discover that Sonic Youth's 1988 masterpiece, Daydream Nation, made the cut. Well alright!
It seems this was a banner year for the LOC audio archives. When you get a chance check out the inductees - Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Lester Young, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Gil Scott Heron. . . there's quite an interesting array of artists and recordings that made it into the vaults. It's good to know that someone in Washington DC is doing something right these days.
I also applaud this quote from the Librarian of Congress, James H Billington:
“The National Recording Registry represents a stunning array of the diversity, humanity and creativity found in our sound heritage, nothing less than a flood of noise and sound pulsating into the American bloodstream.”
Wow. Billington's verbiage makes him sound like a cross between Walt Whitman and Kim Fowley.
Posted by Red Chuck at April 13, 2006 11:10 AM