Twitter tells me that Elbow’s Build a Rocket Boys! came out fifteen years ago today.
Fifteen years! That can’t be right! Yeah, it was back during the Obama years… but fifteen? Fifteen!
Nah, time doesn’t work like that. It can’t.
I never reviewed the album at the time, though I shared some thoughts on the first single, then there was the disaster of the tour book being left by the postman in the rain, and finally seeing them on their North American tour in September.
I never did go to the National Museum of Art with my niece.
Maybe I’ll put on Build a Rocket Boys! this evening. I haven’t listened to it in full in a while.
Published by Allyn Gibson
A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over fifteen years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.
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