Dan Quayle: music critic

He'll always be little Johnny Cougar to me.

 

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And not a darn thing wrong with Mellencamp.

 

Disagree with JCM's politics. Love his music. (except Scarecrow... too dark and gloomy for me. I preferred Lonesome Jubilee)

 

Paper in Fire off that album is easily my favorite by him.

 

You've got to be kidding me. Not only is Scarecrow easily Mellencamp's best album, but it's also one of the best albums of the entire 1980s. It has a conscious during the consciousless Reagan era.

 

The combined IQ in the ex-VP's marriage is 235. Of course, the missus boasts the 150 . . .

 

Another kind of Quayle-ideal Hoosier music:

 

That is an assanine statement.

 

By the way, the Hoosier music Quayle SHOULD be listening to:









Hey, forget what you read about Chicago-- Rhymefest is straight outta Avon. Hendricks County represent!

 

During the 1988 campaign, Quayle said he liked Jimi Hendrix. The reporter, perhaps being a bit skeptical, asked him some things to see if he knew and while he might not have been an expert, it seemed apparent that Quayle was familiar with his work. In the same article, Lloyd Bentsen said he was a Buddy Holly fan and knew the words to "Peggy Sue".

 

If I remember right, in '04 either John Kerry or Howard Dean said he loved Bob Dylan, was a huge fan, couldn't get enough of him, etc,. etc. to Rolling Stone. So the writer/interviewer asked something really innocuous like, "What's your favorite Dylan song?" or favorite Dylan album and if I recall, Kerry/Dean gave an answer along the lines of, "Oh, it's so hard to say. He's got so many that I love. I'd say a lot of the stuff from the '60s. I like a lot of the stuff he did then. I can't pick just one."

 

That answer, my friend, blows in the wind.