Nick Hornby sees the future of rock 'n' roll, and it doesn't have enough youthful zest. Two days later, readers tell the geezer to get over it.

We've yet to read Hornby's "Songbook," but we did recently take our own trip down "Embarrassing Musical Taste" Lane while importing most of our CDs onto an iPod. All the old albums were dusted off and received a fresh listen: For instance, we nearly forgot we once were rabid fans of both Midnight Oil and Belly. Oh hell yes. We just said that out loud.

Meanwhile, to further stomp on any musical credibility we once had, the latest Entertainment Weekly has a story actually worth reading: the strange history of the Beach Boys' "Kokomo." Aside from its haunting link to John "Uncle Jesse" Stamos, turns out the tune was written by "Papa John" Phillips, Scott McKenzie and Terry Melcher -- and we're just amazed so many music legends could come together to carefully construct a piece of crap. (If by "crap" we mean "brilliant pop confection," then yes.)

On a related note, residents of Kokomo, Ind., say a low-frequency hum that has bothered people for years has nearly been eliminated. Townsfolk say the hum sounded a bit like 48 separate vocal layers from Al Jardine, Mike Love and Carl Wilson.