I don't buy the concept

Two years ago rock critic Greil Marcus was interviewed by Michael Mechanic, for Mother Jones --

MJ:  Shuffle your iPod and name the first five songs that pop up.

GM:  Don't have an iPod...
1.  Jan and Dean, "Dead Man's Curve"
2.  Robert Johnson, "Come on in My Kitchen"
3.  Kim Carnes, "You Keep Me Hanging On"
4.  Supremes, "Stop!  In the Name of Love"
5.  Cyndi Lauper, "Money Changes Everything"

MJ:  If you don't have an iPod, what was it that you just shuffled?

GM:  My head.

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MJ:  Three records or singles you never get sick of listening to?

GM:  Cream, "Crossroads"
Crickets, "Looking for Someone to Love"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, "American Girl"

MJ:  Name a guilty pleasure -- something you like to listen to but don't like to admit it.

GM:  ...I don't buy the concept.

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MJ:  Do you have any new favorite bands that we might not have heard of?

GM:  Jockey, Yellow Fever, Woods, DeSoto Rust

MJ:  Let's say an alien came down and wanted to hear the Dylan album that best demonstrates what he's about, which one would you hand the creature?

GM:  Another Side of Bob Dylan.  Confuse the thing.  No reason to give away all our secrets just like that.

MJ:  Can you still listen to Dylan for pleasure?

GM:  Reminds me of what John Lennon said when asksed who the new Chuck Berrys and Jerry Lee Lewises were:  "Are they dead?"  Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage.  So the term "still" seems meaningless to me.  But the real answer is simple:  I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure.

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I really like that guy.  Greil (Greil??) Marcus.  From California, I think.  Has written these books:

The Doors:  A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years
The Old, Weird America:  The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes
Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus:  Wrirtings  1968-2010
When That Rough God Goes Riding:  Listening to Van Morrison
Like a Rolling Stone:  Bob Dylan at the Crossroads
Lipstick Traces:  A Secret History of the 20th Century
Dead Elvis:  A Chronicle of a Cultural Obsession
Mystery Train:  Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music

I want them!
And a beach...

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