Just now, I’m watching some show on Bravo singing the praises of Run-DMC’s lame scratch-n-sample cover of Aerosmith’s Walk This Way. Get a fucking clue, idiots. This is nothing but a totally pedestrian blues riff, It’s the flip side of Big Ten Inch, which dates from what, 1934?

All I can say is that the hope of popular music currently rests in three voices: Nora Jones, Alicia Keyes, and Diana Krall. Look for their influence to be pivotal in the next two decades.