Terry Hall and Sinead O’Conner both did cover versions: Dream a Little Dream of Me, and Ode to Billie Joe.

I have to say I have rather disappointing memories of the first Help album. It was a huge news story, but the songs were, in general, dashed-off covers that didn’t bear repeat listening. Blur’s contribution, in […]

Whatever you think of the Gibbs and their output (and I bloody love them, by the way), this song is simply brilliant.

I seem to remember that the Stone Roses didn’t get money from CD sales for their first LP- only cassette tapes. Yes: tapes. REM’s songwriting split might look even – and it may well be, given they’re all old […]

Classic by Adrian Gurvitz reached number 8 in the UK charts. Surely nobody – including those who bought the song – could feel anything other than pity/shame about it? “Gonna write a b-side…gonna write it up in Teesside.”

Paradise by the Dashboard Lights seems to have been specifically written to annoy me. It’s dreadful beyond belief.

I’m not sure if Lionel had actually seen the bust of his head beforehand. If you look at the reveal scene, he looks a wee bit pissed off. “It looks nothing like me! Are you blind or som…oh yes: you actually are.”

Spitting Games is even worse. It doesn’t have a chorus – it just sort of goes “Oooeee oooeee oooeeeeeuuueee.”

Another fan of Monster here – not a classic, perhaps, but very enjoyable.

Not a band or artist, but very close to my heart: if any of Daphne’s family are in it, don’t watch the episode of Frasier.

He’s an absolute arse on the Guardian football podcast!

It’s a good point, @Beezer. At the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, a band recently played the whole of the White Album. No wigs; no Beatle banter…just a lot of excellent music played by fab musicians.

I’m not a massive Oasis fan, but I saw a tribute group in St. Helen’s in the summer…they were brilliant. A key component of any tribute group is capturing a moment in a band’s history. Given that Liam now sneers, […]

I sincerely doubt it’ll make much difference, but England have been a wee bit hard done to:

‘I thought it might be a place to meet a nice young lady…’ – that’s the exact reason former Strictly star Len Goodman started going, @fentonsteve.

Not only did I ‘vividly’ get the headline wrong, it was also 1989, not the early 90s!

Who do you fancy for the Strictly final, @fentonsteve? I’m a big fan of Karen, bless ‘er.

Lovely stuff: a real winter warmer 👏👏

As I’ve commented on several other Stones’ threads, I vividly recall a Q magazine cover from the early 90s that featured the band. The headline: Lock Up Your Granddaughters! They were ‘The Strolling Bones […]

There was a lad in my year at school who made it widely known that he wanted to be a pilot…he was nicknamed Pontius for four years.