You dismissed "A Saucerful of Secrets"!?

You, Sir, are a scoundrel.

Pistols at dawn!

Also, don't eat LSD and then listen to the Brain Salad Surgery album by Emerson Lake & Palmer.

That's what a friend told me, anyway.

"resist the temptation to grow dreadlocks, especially if you are white"

Desmond Dekker > Bob Marley? Leonard Cohen > Bob Dylan? You're fucking insane. Kids, DON'T LISTEN TO A CRAZY OLD MAN.

@4 Another "journalist" who loves him some false equivalencies.

So one good FE deserves another: Whatever moments Cohen reaches that Dylan does not, Dylan far makes up for it in volume, which Cohen couldn't possibly match, even if he doubled his lifespan.

@6: I didn't equate anything. I called Cohen a "superior alternative." In short, shut it.

I'll hold onto my Pink Floyd, thank you.

for god's sake, don't let anyone, especially a journalist, tell you what you should and shouldn't listen to. decide what kind of music you like for yourself.

What CB said. The worst decision you can make it to let someone else tell you what is good and what you should and shouldn't listen to.

Music is personal. What speaks to you speaks to you. If you want to listen to Stairway to Heaven 100 times in a row, do it, and to hell with anyone who looks down on you for it.

And they can take my Dylan when they pry the records from my cold, dead hands!

But one good point. If you are white please don't grow dreads. As Lea DeLaria once said, every time I see a white person with dreadlocks I have the urge to give them a nickel and tell them, "here, go buy yourself a culture".

Once in high school, I put "Stairway to Heaven" on repeat all night on my new CD player. When I got to school the next day, they played it on the morning radio address. WEIRD.

A music guide for college kids entirely based on alt-rock and elitism over dead people. b-o-r-i-n-g.

not a word hear about music based on beats.

There is no basement at Bop Street. They moved. A year ago. Also, in addition to being prepared to haggle, you must also be prepared to for them to have non-consensual sex with your wallet and maybe your face.

Dear "Schmucky,"

Neither Dylan, Cohen, nor any of the members of Pink Floyd are deceased, and I called Hendrix a God. Please learn how to read.

Sincerely,

Grant Brissey

Dear "Grant",

Syd Barrett and Richard Wright, the original lead singer/guitarist and keyboardist for Pink Floyd, respectively, are both dead.

Please make a note of it.

Sincerely,

A Stranger, from the internet

They live in my dreams.

THAT'S NOT GREEN LAKE THAT'S ROOSEVELT ASS HOLE

I wish I'd started going to shows earlier. If only I'd read the Back to School issue while I was in school.

@16

Yeah. Mine too.

Let's hug it out.

@19: You have a deal.

Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for it's sound
In places small faces unbound

Or even

Hiding underground
Knowing we'd be found
Fearing for our lives
Reaped by robot's scythes

Grant,
i seem to recall a post on lineout a few months ago where you encouraged people to go buy something at Everyday Music (http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/a…), but you can't give us any love in your back-to-school article? what the fuck man? which of those other record stores are gonna take all those promos off your hands?

Dear jh,

You were in the version I submitted, but CF cut it out due to space limitations. I blame him!

Definitely smoke pot and go through a rolling stones phase. Start with beggars banquet on vinyl and play it LOUD.

Vinyl is not better. Only pretentious douchebags claim that it is.