Who's music "pierces the cranium and drives straight into your brain?" (JBMcB)

with me it's a huge variety..

Hank Williams, Gordon Lightfoot, The Clash, Echo & the Bunnymen, Michael Nesmith, Sisters of Mercy, Boomtown Rats, Nazareth, Miles Davis, Louie Armstrong.

[[although, unlike fanatics of a certain band we all know, I'm perfectly willing to admit that all of the above released a certain amount of crap, and virtually everything Nazareth did sounded far better live than in the studio)

"And they're selling tickets to the stadium
And the doors to the ceilings or our craniums"

just a fitting quote - from Joe S.