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I had some time to relax yesterday evening and I was listening to "On The Beach," a Neil Young album from 1974 and part of the "Depressed Mid-Seventies" period. I hit "Repeat" on the last track, a nine-minute lament called "Ambulance Blues."

You can find as much over-analysis of Neil Young's lyrics as you can of Bob Dylan's, but my own quick-and-grungy analysis of "Ambulance Blues" is, "It's how the '60s looked from the middle of the '70s." The whole album is like that. The decade that had passed looked like an old groupie with her make-up washed off by the rain, mocked and derided by upstart ho's.

And coming up next: Disco.

The horror. The horror.