Dancing Barefoot - The Celibate Rifles (a tie, really) Eye in the Sky - Gary War Justine - The Lazy Cowgirls GIve Her A Great Big Kiss - The New York Dolls Anyway You Want It - Kiss
I love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt There is a Light That Never Goes out - Erlend Oye Because the Night - Patti Smith Without You - Nilsson My Favorite Things - John Coltrane Pop Champagne - Telephoned Tainted Love - Soft Cell
If you've been following a relatively obscure band and they start to become popular, do you tend to lose interest at some point? Is mainstream appeal a turn off when it comes to music?
I feel like I'm back in the 80s again. Short answer - mainstream appeal isn't a turnoff. Bad music is. It's not my problem if those usually go hand in hand.
Do you judge people based on their taste in music? How has musical taste either enhanced or detracted from your relationships (including friends, roommates, and romantic partners)?
I used to be a bit of a snob and tease people about their musical taste, while still being good friends with them.
But once I had a couple of former friends with exquisite taste in music who were abusive assholes, I've learned to put musical taste way at the bottom of the friends criteria.
If you had to pick a character from your favorite TV show back in middle school to be your best friend today, who would you choose, and why? Have you outgrown some of the characters you loved when you were an early adolescent?
I was always a little precocious for my age and hated a lot of things I was supposed to like such as 8 is Enough and the Brady Bunch. My BFFs would have been Bob and Emily from the Bob Newhart Show, or Sgt. Dietrich from Barney Miller. I've always joked that I consider myself the "pink-collar" Dietrich - always coming up with random, interesting and inappropriate thoughts in the middle of conversations.