Prog Rock, especially from the 80's and 90's (so not even stuff that most prog fans like). Especially the more melodic stuff. This would be a good place to start: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

There's some talk downthread about separating artists who were awful people from great art, and Riefenstahl's gotta be exhibit A for that, right? Inseparable from both the history of filmmaking and the history of Naziism. Actually, it's a weird inverse with her: a sympathetic artist (to the extent that some of…

Don't know how I missed this, but:

Money doesn't grow on trees, you know. And I think for working musicians it's very much a "don't shit where you eat" thing, so they either get comedians or third-string indie rockers who are about as likely to record with Taylor Swift as you or I.

Pretentious? You've got me all wrong, Oates: I don't turn my nose up at punk, it's punk that turns its nose up at me. I offer a hand in musical fellowship to anyone willing to take it. I kinda have to, because finding people that actually like my favorite music is like Sasquatch hunting. My only condition is that you…

Now see, this is the kind of stuff I wish was in the actual interview.

Huh? They've done plenty of current pop music. Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, fun., Lorde, all come to mind. No Beyonce here yet, I think, but it's not hard to find Beyonce haters out threre.

What makes it difficult not to be a hypocrite is that it's much easier to dismiss an artist for being a shitty person if you already don't like their art. It seems like Brett Ratner is more loathed for saying shitty things about women than Woody Allen is for actual sexual assault. There's also the difference between…

I've had people express that view to me in complete sincerity, so I was just playing it safe.

I like the Doors too. Like, don't worship. It's tough sometimes being caught between people who worship with cultish fanaticism someone who is merely a pretty good artist, and then dealing with the people who irrationally hate them because of that first group.

No. Boo to this way of thinking. It's just the tastemakers setting us against each other. There are no 'sides'.

I mostly think that basing your taste in music on your politics is stupid, but as someone who is fairly Eagles-neutral, I did like this bit from Joe Walsh: http://www.examiner.com/art…
Maybe just because you'd expect the boomer zillionaires from the Eagles to be 'fuck you, I got mine' Republican types, so maybe I'm…

I'm willing to be that Tool fan, for the record. Perfectly good metal band, but they didn't ever blow my mind, even as a teenager.

It read as very arrogant to me. "Ah, he likes one of the Good Bands! He may not be a complete idiot!" Like, we're glad you approve, man.

Last December they did a bunch of Christmas songs, so maybe there's still a chance.

Jack Johnson said in an interview once that he saw Fugazi the one time
they came to Maui, so you have to give him a little bit of credit.

THOSE POOR NAZIS etc etc

All the cool kids go to Oakland to O.D. these days.

In a philosophical sense, not much. In an emotional sense, well, I personally don't look back with fondness on a time when I was convinced that 95% of people were brain-dead swine and that society would turn into Thunderdome within a decade.

"Is that a mosquito?"