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My favourite of theirs by a considerable margin. Usually people look at me funny when I say that but ah well.

Fair play to Fulham. Randy, can we please buy Forlan?

Dave was quite the long haired eye candy way back when so I say good choice, Baby(!) From both a musical and personal perspective, however, it all went downhill in the dreaded 1980s when he got fat, coke addicted and started writing boombastic arena rock shyt. He looks quite respectable by the time you get to The Division Bell, for which his new life affirming wife wrote the lyrics. Generally though albums involving the wife, or ones that serve as tributes to domesticity bore me to tears, hence why I don't listen to Double Fantasy or any of those new Eric Clapton recordings where he talks about doing the washing up OR WHATEVER. Yes, Baby, more recommendations!

Hahahahaha! But of course! I always tend to find women with abominable taste in music so thankfully I've not yet had to endure such an ordeal! Hmm, what will she take first, the Jimmy Nail records or the Starsailor? Wait, which one of us has the bad taste again? What excellent choices. For all Eno's talents, he couldn't match the rugged yet smooth charms of Bryan!

I might do a cover of Thank U by Alanis Morisette but change the "issues" she raises to people's names. "THANK U GRAHAM THANK U HULIO THANK U THANK U BRIIIIIIAN" Any takers? Hmm, good remasters, good remasters: I've only given a few of The Beatles ones a go, though I've been told the new mono mix on Sgt. Pepper is tasty indeed. The Genesis ones are pretty beautiful, though again they're albums from years and years ago, so you'd expect some noticeable upgrades. Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys got a good job, I thought. Any others? I don't think so. Weezer's Blue Album got an utterly pointless one a while back. Ah let's be honest, people only buy them for the fancy booklets.

End of season wrap: nice to get to a cup final, shame about the ref and the pitch. Nice to get to a cup semi, shame about the ref and the pitch and the whole getting outclassed in the second half thingymahjig. Away on the counter attack we can still light a fire, at home we're tedious and one dimensional. Don't score enough goals, don't have anyone on the bench who can really change a game for the better. Heskey should go but it'll be a papering the cracks departure unless we bring in someone a tad more reliable. Defense is great but we need a right-back who's a right-back. If I have to witness one more passing session between Collins and Cuellar which results in us losing possession then I may end up in an asylum. If Martin goes, its daft. If he stays, he can't just feed the same old tired lines about us being terrific in a pulsating 0-0 home draw with Stoke. Finishing 6th is all well and good if we'd been reliably beating the teams below us but losing to the ones above. That hasn't really been the case (7-1 aside), which shows that its ultimately a season of what could have been had we beaten teams like West Ham, Sunderland (no offense, Michael), Wolves and Blackburn at home. Generally: pleased to see Liverpool have a terrible season (sorry Ed, I love you dearly but I have "personal history" with your team) and rather feebly grateful that Man City aren't in the Champions League, even if it means 'arry's mob are off to Marseille and the like. Bundesliga: Dortmund gave it a go. Often sublime, often ridiculous; but always a great club. As soon as Beckenbauer said we had a chance of winning the title I knew we were buggered. Miscellaneous: the wally with the brolly made some genuinely fair dinkum history with Twente. That'll do, pig. Fantasy Football Congratulations to Michael for a handsome victory in the most prestigious of all tournaments! Oh if only I had acknowledged Darren Bent's fine season before it was too late! P.S: would very much like The Baron and SS to join the league next season. And finally: thank you for reading all this guff!

I'd like to see Kießling get a game but I doubt that will happen.

Dark hair again? Uh oh, hope she's not attempting a 'legitimate' Oscar bait movie where she plays a washer woman or something.

The greatest.

Seems Big Kevin Kuranyi is on his way to Dinamo Moscow but not the World Cup. Utterly ludicrous that no one has butted he and L

Who is she and what did she do?!

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Jesus, two wrist slitting defeats.

Are the Stones 2009 remasters any good? I gave Some Girls a Saturday night spin and noticed no differences at all. I'm always surprised when Lenny Kravitz plays the not-lavish-but-still-mildly-significant mountain of dirt that is Wembley Arena, presumably to promote an album that hasn't got a chance of getting in the top 40. Are there that many people nostalgic for that car advert? Enough ex-pats? Isn't Alanis Morisette still huge in South America? I fear for anyone for gave her a chance post-Supposed Infatuated Former Wankiedoodle (sic).

7-3 in the last ten. The beginning of a home series against the Yankees. May 7th. Not the time to stop believin', Sweet Lu!

Mick should never collaborate outside of the Stones, be it Lenny Kravitz, Dave Stewart or Rob BLOODY Thomas. Still, She's the Boss has a cover sleeve that I enjoy for 'ironic' reasons, so at least there's that. Baby, who do you consider the sexiest of the rock stars of the '70s? I must know!

Excellent video! Baron, did you ever see Shine a Light? Every clip I've seen suggests it was a rather regrettable enterprise, much in the same way that it was regrettable that Mick's Goddess in the Doorway album got a five star review in Rolling Stone. The only reason I remember that, incidentally, is because I was clearing up the garage a few months ago and came across a whole batch of old music magazines that I want my children to pointlessly inherit. GOD GIVE ME EVIRFIN I WANT WELL COME ON

I never actually went to his now defunct restaurant (called Sticky Fingers, naturally) and have never felt the urge to see The Rhythm Kings but Bill's a bonafied East Anglian landmark. About once every four months he shows up on the local news to talk about metal detecting or pigeons or something else delightfully genial. If Ronnie wants to learn how to bounce back from a dodgy relationship with a very young lady, he could do worse than see how Bill rolls (geddit? Rolls!).

Too many part timers in the World Cup thread! Berbatov's a mule but I'd take him in a heartbeat. Heskey and Berbatov, can you imagine such a thing of beauty?!? Normally I'd be coughing blood at the thought of Spurs in the Champions League but I'm actually most amused, in fact if they get 3rd then that'd be even funnier. Hopefully they'd finish bottom of a group consisting of decidely unsexy opponents, while Gareth Barry's Man City focus on big trips to Slovenia with the likes of Fulham and Villa.

England need a good song, that always helps. If we get another "anthemic" Embrace song involving standing in a field in a zipped sweater then we're doomed from the get go. It goes without saying that nothing will ever top World in Motion but we can at least do better than something you'd expect to hear on hospital radio.

Easily my least anticipated World Cup ever. My guess is that I'll soon get "the fever", enjoy the first batch of group games, then kinda shuffle my feet until it becomes a knock out competition. Have no idea what will happen, beyond the obvious inclusion in the semi-finals of a team previously dubbed "no hopers" by various pink shirt wearing ex-pros. Probably France or Germany, then.

Yeah Guns probably represent the last of that genuinely debauched heyday. By the time you get to the Since I Don't Have You music video (probably one of the most funny ever!) you can tell Axl is far too well versed in bedding models, more so than big haired strippers. Obviously of all the Stones, Bill was the accumulator. Like a hardened pro, he just got on with the business of sleeping with thousands of women, while the self-promoters (Mick, Gene Simmons, et al) made a big fuss about it. Not that I'm complaining, no one would write a sleazy classic like Some Girls if they'd been happily married for twenty years!