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Top 89 of 2020 - Staff Picks (MPR graphic) Last February, I saw folk artist Freaque perform a song called "My Anger Is A Sun." He explained it this way on Facebook: "ANGER paired with FEAR is corrosive and destructive, but ANGER paired with HOPE is a powerful tool in a movement for change." Like many others, I've had an angry year. I've watched stubborn systems and organizations fail pretty much everyone I care about. But as adrienne maree brown put it, "My anger, my rage, is also rooted in how much I love." And my heart has been full all year. Here are some albums I adore.

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Michelangelo Matos's 'Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year.' (Jay Gabler/MPR) Michaelangelo Matos and I are almost exactly the same age, and we both grew up in Minnesota, but his childhood was privileged in a way mine wasn't: in 1984, he had a cassette deck that could record straight off the radio. Until I finally got a boom box in '87, I was consigned to holding our tape player up to the TV if I wanted to record the theme to Knight Rider or In the summer of '84, Matos writes in his new book Can't Slow Down (buy now), he hit record and decided to keep the t...