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Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later

Now Here We Are Thirty Years Later

By: Richard O'Brien
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 A memoir in Mountain Goats songs, by Richard O'Brien. Each episode focuses on a year in my life from 1990 onwards through the lens of a song written or recorded that year by John Darnielle.Copyright Richard O'Brien Music Social Sciences
Episodes
  • 2015: 'Unmasked!'

    2015: 'Unmasked!'
    Nov 27 2025
    A sort of unrestrained fantasia. Today's episode is about the public and the private, rituals of humiliation, and Roland Barthes' 'The World of Wrestling.' It's 2015 and the song is 'Unmasked!'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2015-unmasked
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    15 mins
  • 2014: 'Song for Black Sabbath’s Second North American Tour'

    2014: 'Song for Black Sabbath’s Second North American Tour'
    Nov 11 2025
    New creatures with new hearts. Today's episode is about Ozzy Osbourne and the joy and shock of playing music all around the world when you never expected to make it beyond Birmingham. It's 2014 and the song is 'Song for Black Sabbath's Second North American Tour.'

    Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2014-song-for-black-sabbaths-second

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    11 mins
  • 2013: 'You and Me and A High Balcony'

    2013: 'You and Me and A High Balcony'
    Sep 1 2025
    Clean slate. It's 2013, and I'm all over the place. Here are some Onegin stanzas.


    You can also read this episode at thirtyyearslater.substack.com. Unusually it doesn't have any references, but I'm drawing on Stanley Mitchell's Penguin translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin throughout.
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    11 mins
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