GOOD LORD!

Wonder if being the subject of all that is what drove one of them to the comforting bigotry of Duck Dynasty. And the other two to weed.

Ian MacDonald's Revolution In The Head is a great corrective to this in general, but he also mentioned that Beatles deification is a specifically American phenomenon - in England, apparently, they're viewed with more skepticism.

Since aging indie-music writers can't find a slot for him to go elsewhere.

On the first and last examples: I said BAND.

I was also going to comment on the name, but then…

To be fair to the boomers, the "saintly hubris" is more of a liberal trope in general than it is a generational one - it's more subtle in younger folks, but it's still there.

I haven't read his "manifesto", but someone I follow on Twitter has, and apparently he felt like was "too good" to pay for it.

Your body pillow doesn't count.

Disagree. You might as well be miking an unplugged electric bass for all the projection an acoustic has. Also, I'm not a big fan of metallic-sounding basses in the first place, so adding bronze strings to the equation just compounds the issue.

Acoustic guitars don't suck.

BRYAN FERRY.

Oh, that's a big one.

The Beatles. They never attract the wrong crowd!

Sellouts, all of you. I hate pop AND indie rock! I win!

I'm not really into it in the same way that I'm into other genres, but there's some really great shit in there. Like there is in almost everything.

…with the baggy pants and the backwards caps and the…

Leather pants will do that.

Short answer yes with an if; long answer no with a but.

Paul Williams also wrote the score for Phantom Of The Paradise - and he did the Riverbottom Nightmare Band song from Emmett Otter.