The Public Pulse

Gee, I guess I must have been way off the mark when I bought the Poison, CSNY and David Lee Roth albums (all in the Billboard Top 10). I guess I should have been out trying to find the Times critics’ extremely popular Top 10 faves such as Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Brave Combo, the Adolescents or House of Freaks (“The Calendar Consensus: Cowboy Junkies,” by Steve Hochman).

You folks are always so incredibly in tune with the record-buying public.

JOHN SMATHER

Van Nuys