Zanes has really found a niche. Young parents who've considered putting their heads in ovens from too much Raffi and Elmo have Zanes to thank. His music is highly listenable, singable, and the best remedy for a backseat tantrum during a traffic jam. If you're a parent with kids, or even a parent without kids, run out and get one or all of these Zanes's albums.

*ABBA are so un-hip they're hip that they're un-hip again. No longer consider yourself cool and "with it" if you like ABBA, they're tired and Scandanavian, that should be enough to let them go. If you must listen to them keep it to yourself, don't boast about it, and by all means never put them on during one of your dinner parties, that's why I left abruptly the last time. Yes, I lied about my great-aunt Vivian being ill, I left because one can only eat cold shrimp and listen to "Nikita" for so long before they feel compelled to lie about the poor health of an aging family member as reason to get the hell out of there.

**Ok, again, maybe it wasn't a rare gem, but I love writing lines like that.

***Has Froom ever produced an album not worth listening to? Well, maybe, his own solo effort was too "quirky" and "blah-blah" for my tastes. Still, everything I've heard him produce, from Ron Sexsmith to Los Lobos to Suzanne Vega (his ex) more consistently than not knocks my socks off.

****Your mind is in the gutter. Get it out. By "adult-oriented" I mean designed for an adult audience. A regular, fully-clothed, adult audience.

*****You're frowning. I know, I know. It's lines like these that I typically frown at too. Just pretend you're reading Billboard or People. Also pretend that you like me.

******I hate the saying "kids of all ages" but in this case it works, so I'll leave it in.

*******Maybe he can't help it. I don't know. How sad and not wonderful that would be, huh?