I like seeing old music in the context of its times: it acts as a corrective to the nostalgia industry's discreet editing of history; and, furthermore, I'm an unabashed fan of the kind of guileless, forgotten, mid-70s, medium-wave radio-pop that punk understandably, but a little unfairly, obliterated from memory (and that the first Guilty Pleasures album attempted to rescue).
This much more radical ANC past is gradually obliterated from our memory.
Perhaps a childhood trauma obliterated from his memory has nonetheless stealthily shaped his personality in fundamental ways.
Salem lives on in scholarly and dramatic works, but the New York City slave hunt has been obliterated from historical memory.
Despite the fact that we wrote each other letters, I somehow obliterated from my memory all traces of Michael's second stint in prison.
The gallery devoted to this war, which has been all but obliterated from Russian memory, is masterly: its creators succeed in presenting the views from both sides — literally, by providing photographs to be glimpsed through bullet holes.
The gallery devoted to this war, which has been all but obliterated from Russian memory, is masterly: its creators succeed in presenting the views from both sides literally, by providing photographs to be glimpsed through bullet holes.
On the other hand, Jonathan Rosenbaum referred to it as torture and mutilation and wrote: "I'd rather have this movie obliterated from my memory".
It took about a minute of Sailor's follow-up to Glass of Champagne, Girls Girls Girls, to make me strongly reconsider my position on the unfairness or otherwise of punk obliterating guileless, mid-70s, medium-wave radio-pop from memory.
Wilson's victory was welcomed by a wave of press enthusiasm which subsequent, cheap denigration – "George Brown drunk is a better man than Harold Wilson sober" – obliterated from the public memory.
