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Library of Congress Defends National Recording Registry After Bill Maher’s ‘New Rules’ Jab
The Library of Congress defended its National Recording Registry in a statement to Rolling Stone after Bill Maher swiped at this year's inductees.
On last Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the comedian and commentator made headlines with his much-awaited — and now much parsed, praised, or pummeled — recap of his and pal Kid Rock’s visit to the White House to meet with Donald Trump. The first Registry, released in 2002, cited recordings by Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and Bing Crosby; last year’s lineup included tracks or albums by Green Day, Perry Como, the Notorious B.I.G., Bill Withers, Johnny Mathis, Benny Goodman, and the Chicks. In addition to the recordings Maher cited, the 2025 inductees include Davis’ Bitches Brew, the Hamilton cast album, Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black, Tracy Chapman’s debut, Mary J. Blige’s My Life, pianist Keith Jarrett’s The Kӧln Concert, Don Rickles’ comedy album Hello Dummy!, Chicago’s debut ( Chicago Transit Authority), the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans cowboy anthem “Happy Trails,” Daniel Rosenfeld’s soundtrack for the Minecraft game, and (no joke) the Microsoft Windows reboot chime.
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