Each Year’s Best Song: 1988

Sometimes the Car Isn’t Fast Enough

But Tracy Chapman hopes it is

Tracy Chapman album cover, edited in Prisma

A highway underpass is not the most romantic setting for a music video called “Meet Me At Our Spot”. The environment would not be, shall we say, the most inviting for an encounter of two star-crossed lovers. The smells, the unsightly collection of litter, the possibility of finding…