Today's theme answers march us through the sound track of recording history, with each theme answer containing as its second element a sound recording medium from the decades indicated in square brackets in the clues. We begin the tour with "Listing of disciplinary infractions [1950s to early 1980s] or PERMANENTRECORD (the fashion for which is coming around again), followed by MASKINGTAPE [1970s to early 1990s] (a form with very little magnetism, IMO), to HIGYIELDCD (lots of interest in this one!), and finally, SINGLESTREAMING ("Recycling option that collects paper, plastics and metals together [2010s to present]" (providing a flood of options). I wonder what's next!?!
In addition to the interesting range of sound recording media, the rest of the puzzle presents other fun ranges including SPIRO Agnew to Barack OBAMA, Pablo Picasso's ARTE to "American IDOL," APEMAN to ATOMS, and MARACA to MODEM.
Bonus singles include "Chaotic spectacle" (SCENE), "Way in or out" (DOOR), and "Certain songbirds ... or escapades" (LARKS). This solver also enjoyed the two answers that reference Barry Manilow's hit "Copacabana," LOLA and the COPA, from a song I'm PARTIALTO for nostalgic reasons. B-sides all that, I liked ALOOF, COTES, and NOTCH.
~Frannie.
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