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The 30th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald was last week. NPR did a largish piece on it. Of course they played bits of the song throughout the piece.
I never realized it before, but that song was about an event which had *just* happened. A top forty song which told the epic story of a contemporary catastrophe. There was actual storytelling in a song that became a huge hit. It is unimaginable today. Of course there are countless examples in the tiny niche markets of folk or alt-college-whatever and I suppose a decipherable story graces the occasional hip-hop song, but who ever hears the story? Who will still be talking about any of them in 30 years?

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