No modern band is anywhere near brave enough to perform like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBY35TFJxSc Oh, modern cowards! Modern cowards and poseurs! -- not the 'Dolls, I mean everyone else. Besides, most of them are dead now. I think one's alive.
How a song can be so light and fast and at the same time slow and melancholy, and have to use so few words, so few expressions, such simplicity. How anyone can rave about people like the Arcade Fire and the Arctic Monkeys, who are average at their very very best, is beyond me. It has to be desperation.