Mike Russo's IF Comp 2025 Reviews

I actually also don’t know much of the Rolling Stones discography beyond what you’ve got here (Wild Horses is a fun ballad I know mostly because of a cover used in Buffy, and my wife really likes She’s a Rainbow); they’re definitely before my time and I never went back to get into them the way I did with Dylan or the Who. But the interview with Keith Richards where he talks about snorting his dad’s ashes was in 2007 and I feel like that blew up fairly big, since it was about someone most people had at least heard of and was obviously kinda morbidly interesting? But that’s the thing about generational markers, they’re never as universal as people like to claim!

And just to prove the point, though I check the other boxes I have no idea who the Five are supposed to be here :slight_smile:

(The Lady Godiva thing is I admit slightly more obscure, but I was trying to come up with something that communicated “one specific person has done this, rather famously, but no one else ever has” but wasn’t quite as aggressive and old-dude-rock coded as Ozzy Osborne biting the head off a bat, since it would have felt lazy going with that after talking about the Rolling Stones. Among my vices is that I sometimes I workshop the silly intros more than the actual reviews).

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