- Most of my musical decisions were based on women.
- I wanted to be Gene Simmons in Kiss.
- Steely Dan was the soundtrack of my college persona.
- The Smiths crystalized my high school ennui.
- I’ll take Stewart Copeland’s sarcasm over Sting’s false nobility.
- The Grateful Dead sound better.
- Whitney Houston is free from all pain, and it breaks my heart.
- I only listen to hip-hop when I’m alone.
- I like singing hymns in church and I blame my wife for that.
- Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall is everything they say it is.
- I haven’t heard any new genre of music in a really long time, which is too bad.
- Michael Jackson is what happens.
- Pandora has changed the way people listen to music. I don’t know if that’s good.
- I’m surprised at how many heavy metal singers are homosexual. Not that anything is wrong with that.
- The Unforgettable Fire is a masterpiece.
- Lou Reed’s album New York is some of the best American rock and roll and poetry ever.
- I saw Bruce Springsteen in Fao Schwartz shopping for legos with his son.
- I sat next to James Taylor at the Tastee in Harvard Square.
- I met Steve Earle in Nashville at a Prong Concert.
- I told Peter Wolf where the men’s room was.
- New Order’s Power, Corruption & Lies was and is a great album to listen to while being a white suburban teenager.
- The mix tape has become a lost art in the digital age.
- I remember hearing Madonna’s song “Like A Virgin” for the very first time and thinking “She’ll never go anywhere.”
- I lied about seeing The Who in seventh grade to impress my rich friends.
- It’s never too late to smoke dope, eat chicken wings, and listen to Boz Scaggs.
- Jimmy Buffet is not cool.
- Jim Morrison would not have aged well.
- Stew and The Negro Problem is worth a listen.
- MTV has lost the zeitgeist.
- It’s sad to consider the amount of talent killed off from drug and alcohol abuse.
- Never trust a banjo player.
- Trying to hold off an orgasm for the guitar solo is trite.
- Not all Motown is good.
- I never liked Guns & Roses.
- Opera is not so hard to follow.
- Van Halen stopped being good after Fair Warning.
- Babylon By Bus is great to play while going on a long slow jog.
- Ozzy Osbourne has become a pitiful cartoon.
- I have turned into my parents when it comes to volume on the stereo.
- Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors makes me think about cocaine.
- Kurt Cobain was not a genius.
- John Lennon was.
- “Indian Summer” written by Beat Happening, but sung by Ben Gibbard, lets me notice the passage of time and miss people who have died.
- I heard music when my daughter was born.
- Sufjan Stevens is not baby-making music.
- “Rockers” is a great movie about Rastas and 70’s Reggae.
- I have Serge Gainsbourg in my music library but don’t listen to him.
- Warren Zevon went out with style, but too soon.
