TFA is one such album, released by the Roots in 1999. After decades in the world, Things Fall Apart still works, ultimately, because it is an album that tells a public that their fear is not unique, that it has been living in many for a long time, and that it can only get worse.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
