Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

Today we're going to be talking with Alan Seppenwall, Rolling Stones TV Critic,

about his really fun list, fake bands, real songs,

the 50 best tunes by made-up musicians. It's pegged to the

release of Daisy Jones and the six which was of course Amazon's just

concluded adaptation of the very popular and very enjoyable novel Daisy Jones in the six by Taylor Jenkins Reed and the funny thing Alan is your opinion on that show as with many critics was mixed at best I think.

I mean it's I hate to be that guy who's like the book was better but the book is

much better and maybe if I had not read the book I would have a different opinion, but having read the book and having recently listened to the audiobook version, which is fantastic,

it's every single change that the show made makes the story worse. And I think that there are two things that like are very hard to translate from the book one of which is the book is an oral history so the story is just this cliche like pastiche of the Fleetwood Mac story, but it's got, it's being told

from all of these different perspectives 30, 40 years later.

And so there's a lot of disagreement about what happened or what it meant and that's what makes it interesting.

And the show doesn't really have that.

And so it's just the story and adapting the plot of Watchmen.

Yes, you're getting the plot of Watchmen, but you're missing the point of Watchmen. Yes, you're getting the plot of Watchmen, but you're missing the point of Watchmen. So that's one, and the other is the thing we're here to talk about, which is with really one exception, I don't think the fake songs are very good, and in the book you can just imagine what the band sounds like

But in the show you have to hear them and for the most part it does not live up to the status of this band or for that matter to the quality of all of the actual 1970 songs

that are peppered throughout the soundtrack. You know that point goes to the

central issue here which is it's miraculous anytime the fake songs in a movie about fake

musicians are actually good because they need to be and the ultimate example is

the number one thing on our list you You're supposed to write something from scratch

that's supposed to be a huge hit in a fictional world

good enough to make some fictional band huge.

And that's quite a challenge.

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