my favourite records when i was very young were like songs from the big chair & strange animal & so & parts of invisible touch.

i guess i had a soft spot for bon jovi. briefly. but that's as deeply as i ever delved into hair metal.

it's not like he held to it as he aged, but it's his era, it's not my mine.

my dad had a hard time with grunge, which i guess is when he stopped caring much about popular rock music, but he liked the more commercial side of alternative rock. he was actually a big collective soul fan. blues traveller. yeah - fucking blues traveller. there was a repressed hippie in there somewhere...