One Nice Thing About Growing Up Catholic

In My Headphones, I Led A Life Of Romance And Incident And Intrigue, None Of Which Had Anything To Do With The World Outside My Walkman.

Big Star Invented A Vision Of Bohemian Rock & Roll Cool That Had Nothing To Do With New York, Los Angeles Or London, Which Made Them Completely Out Of Style In The 1970s, But Also Made Them An Inspiration To Generations Of Weird Southern Kids.

At An Incredibly Divisive Point In Pop History, Donna Summer Managed To Create An Undeniable Across-the-board Experience Of Mass Pleasure - After 'bad Girls,' Nobody Ever Tried Claiming Disco Sucked Again. It Set The Template For What Michael Jackson Would Do A Few Months Later With 'off The Wall.'

When Ke$ha Tries To Rap Like L'trimm, She Sounds Like Any Ordinary Lonely Teenage Girl Stuck In A Nowhere Town, Singing Along To Her Radio And Dreaming Of A Party Where She's The Star. Ke$ha's Greatness Is That In Her Voice, You Can Hear Both The Loser Girl And The Star. All Hail The Queen Of Noi$e!

Ronnie Spector's Hair Was Taller And Meaner And Scarier Than All Four Shangri-la's Combined, Plus The Drummer From The Honeycombs. You Just Know Her Rat-tail Comb Was A Switchblade.