"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Holy crap!

Pitchfork is reporting that Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation is being honored by the Library of Congress (along with 49 other historically significant recordings) and inducted into its National Recording Registry.

Even more astonishingly, in my opinion, is that this year's registry includes Switched-On Bach by Walter/Wendy Carlos and that they list her as Wendy, rather than Walter (the name she still had at the time the album was released.)

I'm glad that the NRR hasn't been tainted by theocrats yet.

Posted by Jonathan at 2:31 PM

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