Is "vinyl" kind of a newer term? I first remember hearing it as a hip-ass term for records in about 1994. Nowadays it's by far the dominant name for records, but was it used at all during the format's heyday?

Sort of. We're mostly going to Amazon for everything.

Yeah, I guess that does sound like something Bangs would say. Should have cited my sources.

I'm an old punk - so I've accused people of selling out countless times in my day - and I think I'd dispute that rock has particularly strong roots in any anti-capitalist counterculture. Certainly in its early days it was wholly capitalist - just music designed to make a buck off of teenagers. The biggest rock band of…

I suppose your last point might explain the conservatives in the lobby: It's a place for people who still listen to their dad's music into adulthood.

I got about 2/3rds of the way and that's where it seemed to be going. Maybe some other brave traveller can confirm.

Except Penny, who she took on two dates.

See ya!

Ooo good metaphor. And nice reference to "The Rabid Chickens", which is my cousins Countrycore band that you've probably never heard of.

These sorts of questions were asked right away, though. When I was a kid in the 80s, discussion about Sgt Pepper was similarly worshipful (though I admit it did seem to grow over time).

I don't entirely disagree, but your last sentence reads like the sort of Baby Boomer music criticism I mentioned in my post. "You will never hear them the same way again. Thus endeth the reading. Amen."

What's a greater album, "My Roomate's Electronic MacBook Fiddlings" vs. "Ex-Girlfriend's Confessional Piano Songs About Bad Sex"?

Truth be told, the only wrong answer is to trash on one of these albums just to build the other one up. Pepper is slightly more fun, but as I get older, I find that the teenage symphony on Pet Sounds starts to resonate more and more. They're both incredible and I find it pretty silly when someone takes the "Hot Take"…

Muscular guitar-driven hard rock from the 70s, probably.

I love that album. But come on.

I think the weird 70s synths are kind of fun, too. So it has two things going for it.

That crazy bodeeohdoh jazz guitar solo is pretty amazing, too. The Beatles didn't really touch jazz music very much, so it's a nice little window into what they might have done with it.

Hey, the guitar solo on My Love justifies the existence of that song. (Not that I don't love it otherwise).

I have to admit, I was one of those kids. I guess we didn't have any cultural context for it - I didn't understand what an Aruba or a Montserrat was, I just thought the voices sounded great. Which they kinda do, by MOR 80s pop standards.

Ray Charles?