Peter Quaife from The Kinks :(

Bummer

Have no idea who he is nor heard of The Kinks, but I actually recognize a couple songs by title. So in his honor I'll be sad today.

I feel old

To be fair, Alex has established that he is musically ignorant, so it's not really a function of age.

I sometimes suspect that Alex is an android. It would explain a lot.

Correct. I'm equally ignorant (and in fact probably more so since "oldies" were my primary form of musical "white noise" consumption when I was a teenager) of the music of the '90s.

And while I generally recognize popular music when I hear it, I almost never know who's singing (and when it is a band who is in the band unless the band is named after them).

After all, I was probably the only college student in Seattle who first learned of Kirk Cobain's existence when he killed himself and everyone else went into convulsive shock.

Correct? So you ARE an android?

Yes, it is the only explanation for why JWBear's disdain doesn't hurt my feelings. I have none. And as Oliver Sachs has written well on, it is musical wiring that makes us human. Since I apparently have none there are limited logical conclusions to be drawn.

And thus, yet another contender fails the Turing test.