Ira Kaplan: Although I already had albums of my own, 1967 was an earth-shattering year for me. We had the radio on all the time, but it was most often tuned to WQXR, playing classical music, which was genuinely worse than not having the radio on at all.

When I was 10, for reasons that were never explained to me, I was allowed to start listening to AM radio and was given a transistor radio. That’s also the year I began buying singles and listening to WABC. I kept track of that station’s yearly top 100 countdown—but it wasn’t in order. For a week, they would play records from all over the list, and you had to keep your own chart. And the Music Explosion’s “Little Bit O’ Soul” was on that chart.

My family lived on a little road [in Croton-on-Hudson, New York] with just a few families, and the guy at the end of the street worked for Columbia or CBS Records. So, when I was maybe 12, they filmed a video for Sly and the Family Stone’s “Everyday People,” I think, in his backyard, and the local kids were invited to come hang out. But of course Sly was late. Hours and hours late. So we gave up. Fuck it!

Georgia Hubley: When [There’s a Riot Goin’ On] came out in 1971, “Family Affair” was my favorite. I, too, was a big countdown person, and whenever that song came on, I would be so excited. It has that bubbly beginning, but DJs were always talking over it. I remember being, like, “Shut up! I want to hear the whole thing!”