Sean Daly is the pop music critic at the St. Petersburg Times. He has also alliterated for the Washington Post, the Washington City Paper and People Magazine. An only child growing up outside of Boston, he spent great chunks of his youth sprawled in front of his parents' monolithic hi-fi system/coffee table. (He burned his besotted college years at Syracuse University doing pretty much the same thing.) Is he socially maladjusted? Absolutely. However, his music collection — from Otis Redding to Bob Dylan, Public Enemy to Stan Getz — is much bigger and better than yours. So there.

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E-mail: sdaly@tampabay.com

Blog: Pop Life