Right

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The promised follow-up questions (two of them in fact)

What have you been most right about? (The world may or may not have caught up to you on this)

Does being seen as "wrong" or "right" about music by other people bother you much?

Comments

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

In 1987, there was this "omg it was 20 years ago today!" thing in a Norwegian (non-music) magazine where the journalist went all wibbly over 1967 in general, and said (paraphrase) "ok ok 'Kiss' by Prince is great and all, but WILL IT RLY BE REMEMBERED IN 20 YEARS???" I was all, "wtf ffs of course it will you nitwit", ie RIGHT.

(Actually, this guy was not *really* an nitwit -- he was quite a good poptimist, which was pretty unusual in Norwegian music-writer circles in those days -- twas all roots rock etc to the degree that STAN RIDGWAY was seen as pop epitome or something. For instance, he gave a 5/5 review to PSB's Please, which was not to be expected in that climate.)