Nothing Brings You Back Like an LP...

Strolled down memory lane last night with Squeeze's "East Side Story" and The Jam's collection, "Snap!" Wonderful British power pop from the darkest years of my teenagedom. Music like this--and The Beatles, of course--was the light at the end of my tunnel. What's so difficult about being a teenager is that you have an adult-sized identity without an adult-sized life. Nobody I knew was remotely like me--which meant I was just like everybody else! Shit, my stomach's hurting just remembering it...