I just - I just can't tell if you're serious. It's baffling. I'm baffled.

So, Martin, are you telling us you invoked your grandfather as a virtue signal of your own working-class credibility, despite never having met him? How impossibly disrespectful of you. I'm glad your grandfather has passed; it spares him the heart-stabbing shame of an ungrateful, pedantic little snot of a grandson who would seek to ride his coveralls into righteousness. He deserves better than someone like you.

The simple line in Atlantic City- 

 put on your stockings, babe / night's getting cold 

has more weight as art than anything a weak-tea punk like you could create in a million lifetimes. I was deeply moved by that single, almost whispered line when I bought the album at the age of 22, in the year 2000. Did you know he recorded that record alone, on a 4-track? Do you even know what a 4-track is? He covered Suicide on that record, in 1982. 

Do you even know who Suicide is, you smarmy little creep?