1 – Wasp Star – XTC
2 – Lost Horizons – Lemon Jelly
3 – Jollity – Pugwash
4 – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot – Wilco
5 – Welcome Interstate Managers – Fountains of Wayne
6 – Lost in Space – Aimee Mann
7 – Meaningless […]

I always sing Ghostbusters when I hear the Dambusters March.

Amazing in the first Alien film in a challenging role (no spoiler). “I admire… its purity”.

Crowded House have two entries IMO. Together Alone starts with the atmospheric but slight Kare Kare and would have been much better beginning with track 2, the absolute banger In My Command. And it’s fairly well d […]

Still think Peter Serafinowicz is the best.

And he can do the music pretty well, too.

In my will to be played at my funeral, that one. Always love it, but this has been doing the business right now, played super loud:

1 – Skylarking – XTC
2 – Spilt Milk – Jellyfish
3 – Sign ‘O’ The Times – Prince
4 – Murmur – REM
5 – I’m With Stupid – Aimee Mann
6 – Can You Still Feel – Jason Falkner
7 – Grand Prix – Teenage Fanclub
8 – […]

It was chosen by comedian David Mitchell when he was on Desert Island Discs, not just a regular pick but the one he’d save out of all of them. Given the style of his writing, surprised me a bit.

The story goes they were struggling with the running order, so Steve Lillywhite said his (then) wife Kirsty Macoll might have a go. After some considered listens, she delivered the magic order on a scrap of paper. […]

A load of wonderful writing for others, a number of albums, but Carole King = Tapestry.

Also, Peter Gabriel – So and Paul Simon – Graceland (to Joe/Josephine Public).

Halfpenny’s nickname was ‘pence’ IIRC. The same team had ‘Bomb’ (Adam Jones) ‘The Count’ (Stephen Jones, who looked like Ray Reardon), Matthew ‘Smiler’ Rees and Martin ‘Nugget’ Williams.

That’s similar to my Precision (pictured in my avatar). It’s a Mexican Fender, bought (covered in dust at the back of a shop, but new) for £225 in 1999. Since then I’ve changed all the hardware, bit by bit. Only […]

I might not be the person to give advice as I have a Precision and a Jazz. I love the piano-like ‘ding’ of a Precision, plus they’re indestructible (as my 1999 one will attest). I like that 50s one, simply because […]

Go on, then. Today, it is:

1 – The Beatles – The Beatles
2 – Spilt Milk – Jellyfish
3 – Skylarking – XTC
4 – Talking Book – Stevie Wonder
5 – Court and Spark – Joni Mitchell
6 – Risque – Chic
7 – I’ […]

I did mine in GarageBand, and it was fairly simple because I found a ‘vocal only’ version of SOTW online, it’s in the same key (and roughly the same tempo) as DIA. As for isolating tracks, changing pitch etc – way […]

This is my favourite at the moment.

I did my own a few months ago. Ian Gillan sings ‘Smoke on the Water’ over Steely Dan’s ‘Do It Again’. Worked a treat, but I got a cease and desist from Steely Dan’s people…

Enjoy your project, Fitter – I did the same a couple of years ago with an old Tanglewood Tele which had a great neck but poor guts. I saw a photo of a very expensive Red Tele and figured that I could convert what […]

On the advice of Messrs Hepworth and Ellen on a recent podcast, I shelled out on I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, the biography of Warren Zevon. Although the general shithousery of the man is an eye-opener, what possibly […]

The Dandy Warhols’ allotted 15 minutes had pretty much elapsed before Vodaphone used ‘Bohemian Like You’. The resultant cheques must have been useful, and the rereleased song, which failed to chart the year […]

Though that style of modern country is not my thing at all, I really enjoyed Mr Urban. He’s a hell of a performer and guitarist, isn’t he?