Here’s a quick set up on a busy morning after a long night’s work that I’m sure you will take the distance.

Imagine a world in which our nerdy rock banter and insights are banned by the State as being harmful and counterproductive to the social order of the music industry. Mainstream entertainment publishing titans, like Rolling Stone‘s Jann Wenner, don’t want our lot challenging the received marketing messages handed down with review copies of the day’s most heavily promoted sounds. Rock Town Hall, as a publicly available music discussion venue, is broken up. Our URL is blocked! Townspeople are tracked down in their mothers’ basements. Top 10 lists—and even the collected Billboard state-of-the-industry article links of RTH Chess holdout Links Linkerson—are wiped clean from hard drives! Townsman berlyant heads to the hills to organize a secret community for fugitive Townspeople and other rock nerds.

This secret community is organized along the lines of the one in Farenheit 451. To preserve our collective wealth of deeply held and off-the-beaten-path opinions for future generations, Townspeople pledge to memorize one musical opinion. It can be a personal view, a succinct record review (eg, J.D. Considine’s GTR review, that read something like “SHT”), a key quote from a landmark artist interview, or so forth.

Should this day come, what one musical opinion would you pledge to take with you for the sake of future generations?