In a recent issue of Playboy magazine, a centerfold model was asked what kind of music she preferred. "Classic Rock," she wrote. "Neil Young, the Cure, Dinosaur Jr., Tom Petty -- all the classic rockers." Miss April (for it was she) seems to have stumbled across a truth that has eluded many other cunning thinkers. That truth? Classic is as classic does. To poorly paraphrase Edward "Duke" Ellington: if it sounds classic, it is classic. read on...