[Joe Crocker]

Hi Jim,

Your passionate defence of “Now and Then” was a gripping read. Over the years I have made many mix-tapes, and Spotify playlists studded with gems I’ve found. Too often I’ve played them to underwhelmed family and friends, who have asked me to turn it down a bit, skip on a track, play their own request instead. It is painfully disheartening. How is it humanly possible for them not to feel what I feel? I know for a fact, for an objective indisputable certainty, that what I’m playing them is treasure. If I could put it on a weighing scale, they’d know that it was gold. If I could wire it up to an oscilloscope, the wave would shout Wonderful. Can’t they feel it wriggle down their spine and wrap around their gut? Hmmm, I feel a poem coming on.