It has been four years since my last list of pop aphorisms. I thought it was high time for another. 1. The discovery of the teen idol wa...

1. “The Top 500 Albums of All Time”—another name for the outcome of a questionnaire, a device derived from a nineteenth-century parlor game....

1. The collocations “art rock” and “progressive rock” are merely distinctions without a difference: both are attempts to assuage pop guilt. ...