| As regular readers of Last Plane to Jakarta know, we write almost exclusively about records we really like. Mainly we try to restrict ourselves to records we don’t just like, but about which we are a little fanatic. Every so often we’ll write about a record that we think has timeless stamped on its forehead. This is all well and good. But when it comes down to writing about your very favorite bands, what is there to say? “They changed my life,” “Their lyrics seem as vital and alive to me as the Sermon on the Mount must seem to a good Christian,” “I cannot imagine who I would be if I had not been lucky enough to risk ten bucks on their album one summer day in 1984” -- sure, fine. But these are all subjective accounts which, while they may lead to entertaining monologues if we all get lucky, contain little in the way of useful information. |