The hook is the sweet spot, the easily remembered melody or rhythm figure. Beatles songs are packed with hooks . A hook is similar to a riff , which is instrumental, while a hook can be played or sung.

Collins is a bald, bland Englishman who writes interchangeably uninteresting songs.

What Cobain and Nirvana did is extremely rare. There are plenty of great bands, but not all of them accomplish this.

I sense a frightening surprise in that category. It's a very tough category. Each of those artists have their constituency with the voters, and none of them are going to be big enough ... to steal the constituency of someone else.

They represented the last great seismic shift in popular culture,

A cover is an artist doing a version of another artist's original song,