Billy Fucking Joel has written more great songs than that whole group combined (not that I don't dig lots of shit from many of them). Fuck the Pixies and Sonic Youth, though.

I'd rather listen to Yes than Talking Heads any day of the week and thrice on Sunday.

Clarke's Top 10 bands who should be in but aren't:

I've never heard anything to suggest that rich people don't smoke just as much as poor people do. Maybe FAMOUS people don't smoke as much, but..yeah.

I was just gonna post about how much I hate smoking and how I hope she stops—but I wasn't considering this wealth connection you're purveying.

I'd say it's more that she never knew him and he never really WAS "dad" to her?

Again. AXL.

"Axl." Like it's spelled, right there. Like it's spelled, period. Like it was spelled when you saw it in print like 9 trillion times when G&R were the biggest thing on Earth. How do people do this? How can a memorably unusual spelling, with all of 3 letters, of a simple word/name, not make enough of a brain impression…

Never heard of this guy until a couple of weeks ago when I got the single in at the radio station I'm about to be Music Director of, and it was one of 7 or 8 things I spun and dug right off the bat (something that pretty much surprised the shit out of me, because Get Off My Lawn). I'm guessing I might not like his…

Manuela is just physically perfect. Why do some people get to look like that? Why would "God" put souls in bodies so randomly?

I meant I strongly dislike those other artists lol.

That's the hardest thing for me to accept—that albums by rock/alternative bands aren't events anymore. Life is worse for it.

Before they broke big they were far from 80s soft rock cheese.

I was hoping this was accurate, because I love Genesis. No, huh?

I haven't heard the last Bjork record yet, but I can't imagine it's her "career best", a suspicion that's emboldened by the short list of other artists you like.

That's the split vinyl with Hendrix, right? I had it and wasn't 'there' at the time (and I'm not a huge Hendrix guy), so I sold it..but I've heard versions where he goes into that whole pleading-type thing and it's amazing.

"Holding Out For a Hero."

I love music of all sorts but my primary leaning would be toward late-70s classic rock, new wave and postpunk, and late-80s/early 90s alt-rock, with a healthy dose of golden age hip-hop also factoring. Much of that music is stuff I find emotionally weighty or significant, and a capacity to "move" me is almost as…

I've been embroiled in a whole spiel here for the past few days involving a post I made about a younger girl who didn't know "Cannonball" and said it was because she was born in 1989. Search my posts if you want a dip down a pop culture rabbit hole.

Clues is so fucking good.