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Have to admit that response made me laugh. (though not strictly true anymore as/when we move into the quantum computing era ;-) )

You've missed this year's Pulitzer prize but this definitely needs putting up for 2025. It's got a touch of the Wilfred Owen's about it, great stuff.

Strong 5 from @bigstanhibbert that deserved a higher overall placing imo.

Doh, how did I miss out Connie Francis ? Top choice B&W.

Yeah but do you want to nominate a song? Nobody's nominated Andy Williams yet.

If the geezers are messrs Holland, Dozier, Holland I'm good with that.

Multiple playlists OB1, Rob is referring to the Country/Folk one of last week.

I suppose there's no need to pass songs round between pop artists these days as half of them are playing to a virtually identical bloody formula anyway. Haha. I've finally become my Dad, yay!

Always assumed he was a country singer, but clearly broader than that. Glad someone went for Dion & The Belmonts, classic sound. We've already got Alma Cogan's version of 'Why Do Fools' in the playlist, though it does make the point about how much songs were shared and passed around a...

Just had a quick listen to WJH - as you say not an obvious choice at all? Fr John Misty's and Michael Kiwanuka's albums are both out tomorrow - so I'll be listening to them to see if they are wroth binging on to get into the top 10. If they are both good that might mean Idles doesn't get in...

No objections from me and happy to throw in my favourites.

Been reading a fair bit about the UK food system recently, it's so dysfunctional it's headspinning.

SD Jnr is arguably massively underrated in the UK, I think loads of people in this country just think of him as a mate of Bruce Forsyth!!

ok, so it's a fairly eclectic playlist at the moment, I think this is one that might benefit from putting into chronological order - I'll do that tonight and then start slotting further ones in accordingly. If anyone is having any older relatives round for Christmas, this might be the playlist...

It was a bit tongue in check, Humph ended up more famous for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on R4 but he was a good trumpeter too, as well as being a well known cartoonist! But as I'm typing this something occurs to me, he was also essentially an Eton educated minor aristocratic. I wonder the degree...

I'm not having Humphrey Lyttleton as a pale imitation of anyone :-)

I considered doing the pop write up with sex as it's central theme but decided it was too narrow a perspective. I think for the likes of Alma Cogan the changing tides must have been a real blow. I think she was friends with The Beatles especially McCartney (?) but was yesterday's news as far as...

I agree about the first definition, I think some artists are quite cynical but that shouldn't condemn the entire category and commerciality and artistic expression are hardly mutually exclusive. The "anything that's not jazz or classical" was one of the descriptions that popped up a couple of...

I seem to remember at the time some folks feeling it was a bit too lightweight compared to their previous albums but you could hear elements of it on those albums anyway so I never really got why people were surprised or had a problem with it. If you're going to lean into a bit of 80s production...

My eldest thought iPlayer was basically streaming for granny's until I actually got him to look at it properly and which point he changed his mind, there's definitely an image problem with younger adults (possibly older) that they need to find a way to address. Apparently every year when they...