Burning down the house? Did David Byrne live there too?

"Hey Steve, there's a woman in the gift shop with confusion in her eyes that says it all…she's lost control again."

You try playing with all the stress of being a cat in the big show—you might need to take a little cat nip now and then to keep up…

How can we even compete with those SEC kittens though, they're huge!

Maybe he was an evil James Spader-type preppy…

What's crazy is that those three albums probably sold more over time than the total combined albums sales of every album released last year.

Yeah, and didn't Def Leppard fall into that category too?

Yeah, The Ramones are just like AC/DC or Chuck Berry… It's just simple, fun rock and roll. People hate the Ramones in part because they've been lionized by rock critics, though that's not their fault. There wasn't any irony with the Ramones doing what they did, they just really loved the music of the 1950s and 60s.

In the winter of 1994 I went with my mom to the NAMM convention(National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim in Southern California—she worked for a company that made electronic synthesizers and samplers so she got to go every year and I was just getting into playing guitars so it was cool for me.

Yeah that's probably true, the Berlin albums of David Bowie would've been labeled as punk or post-punk if he was an artist just starting out in London or New York rather than as the career reinvention of a veteran artist. Public Image Limited was basically Krautrock for the masses.

If you're smoking pot and watching the sun come up, "Tuesday's Gone" always seems to fit the mood.

And the results are like the ISIS of rock music… We should have foreseen the monster we created!

I'm a few years younger than Kinane, but I remember that by 1990, hair metal was already considered a joke among the cool kids at my elementary school. By 1991 even before Nevermind, thrash metal was at it's peak(Metallica was big but about to release the extremely huge thrash-lite Black Album and the other bands…

Yeah, for kids who wanted party music about getting wasted and getting chicks the gangster rap of that era was the soundtrack. I think the former working-class/suburban crowd for hair metal went two ways—one went towards rap music and then in other parts of the US went towards country music.

German beer makers often mistaken for Heineken.

You're totally a 90s kid if you love Nickelodeon…

Daniel Craig will return next December as James Bond in "License to Wear Trousers".

And what the fuck is an "arcade"?

DJ Windows 98 requires at least 16 MB of RAM though 24 MB is recommended.

That's one thing I'll remember about Shearer—every quote from him in that book he acts like he was better than SNL, other cast members and so on… And I love Shearer from his Christopher Guest film appearances and The Simpsons, but he really doesn't come off well in that book.