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Most of what I listen to is from the 21st century because I want to hear what people are doing in music these days, but I picked up Big Science (originally released the year before I was born) probably on the strength of unlikely hit single "O Superman" and found it to be remarkably fresh-sounding even 40 years later.

"O Superman" took on added resonance after 9/11, but Big Science's opening track "From The Air" is the one with the most timeless appeal to me. "This is the time," Anderson repeats, "and this is the record of the time." And the plane crash depicted in the lyric feels like a record of the time, now as much as ever in my life: the traditional safety instructions disintegrating into a meaningless game of Simon Says; the feeling we've seen all this before; the weird reassurance that we are all going down, together.