The megabuck stops here. Maybe I'll let Bruce Springsteen teach me how to hear John Cougar Mellencamp, but damned if I'm going to let John Cougar Mellencamp teach me how to hear Bryan Adams. From antipunkdiscowave strut to Flashdance homage, he's a generic American hunk, only whiter because he's Canadian.

Trout Mask Replica [Straight, 1969]

Continues to project a hedonistic lassitude and desperate edge you wish you could warn your buddy off.

These meditations lose definition faster than an angel's breath on a January morn.