I'd like to see it this way: If Mark E. Smith grew-up to become post-punk's Alec Guinness, then Lydon became its William Shatner.

I was expecting hologram Sean O'Neal to write this, it needs more snark!!!

@avclub-9bc661e8362657d8cbbe4bb41d17c7f3:disqus  Besides, it happened at a time in Dylan's career it might have altered the way it eventually turned out. He might have stayed a folk singer, who knows!

Well yeah, I was looking at things from a strictly "indie-centric" perspective.
About my ability to predict the future, I'm afraid it is easy to see that the trend toward less and less critical consensus is clear. Off course, the new Animal Collective album might be "MPP part 2" and make my prediction useless, but that…

I'm afraid we are bound for another year without a zeitgeist defining album, just like 2011. That said, I'm perfectly cool with that and love anything Pearce does.

No love for The Birthday Party? All around superior songwriting and loads more of playing-bass-on-one's-cock.

I think he was unable to retrieve the suitcase full of songs when he passed by the Guthrie's house to get it. Nobody was there or something like that.  I'd say Dylan did not turn them down, but instead gave up way too easily.

Indeed, I also think it is one of the most beautiful, subtle yet emotional, love songs of all time.

All those geeky left-turns are one more reason to love Rundgren

O'Neal, if I wanna get cheap dick jokes I go to Cracked. You have to up the ante, bro!

Awesome interview, you were able to touch almost every interesting aspect of his career. Todd Rundgren is seriously as important for pop's music evolution as Brian Eno, although he gets much less praise than him.

Don't taze me, bro?

I thought derivative rockism was back [via The Men]?

Bromances were not so openly accepted back then.

"Howl" was also kinda passable. The best were the interview bits, although those sappy, pedestrian animation segments nearly ruined it for me.

For me it's a good old case of "love the guy, hate his fans".

I'm afraid "On the road" became a vapid signifier of cool at least 45 years ago, much like "Ulysses" a couple of decades before.

I'd pay to see a beatnik-themed movie if it had David Cross as Allen Ginsberg and Viggo Mortensen as William Burroughs.

Can you guarantee that? I need some hope to endure the next 5 years!

Tell me about that, half the people I go out with ask me about either Che Guevara or Evo Morales.