One of the biggest problems with being a critic is that people are always expecting you to have opinions about everything. Now I readily admit that, at least as far as this particular outpost of rock criticdom is concerned, the specific things that I’m often called upon to express my opinions about are often those that, in the course of a perhaps more “normal” existence, I probably wouldn’t bother with even a moment’s thought over, let alone the hour upon hour of serious brainwork that goes into formulating actual, serviceably dispensable opinions.