Jerry I'm sure there's a lot of truth to that, and I won't try to test you on it, since I'd be tempted to stretch--especially since I don't really have five favorites I could name. The music I grew up with has an associative luster apart from any real value to it.

But I think part of that is that popular music is a kind of campfire that we sit around together, like the way people would rather re-ask an faq for a present response, rather than look it up in the dead sea scrolls.