Another splendid music shop has closed its doors for ever.

RIP 'Lost in Music' in Glasgow's Cresswell Lane. No doubt the space will soon become a franchise pub.

I misread the first line in UNCLEWHEATY's blog about live albums, thinking he'd mentioned a 'three-word album review' of Under the Blood Red Sky. This got me thinking - surely the Word community are imaginative enough to come up with three word reviews (or summaries) of classic albums? Here are my own hastily thought up (and a bit rubbish) offerings as a for instance:

Let It Bleed: "Sixties ended here"
Nevermind: "Yelled emotional melody"
The Bends: "Wobbly inarticulate articulation"

I know that the beautiful Word folks can do better.

I have often turned to the Word community for advice in important life matters and do so once again.

The time has come for me to flog my vinyl. I know, I know - feel free to admit howls of displeasure but I have a large house move coming upon me and I have hunners of old records that I simply will never listen to again (mainly Melody Maker singles of the week from the early 1990s). I want to get some of it converted to MP3 before it goes, but go it must.

So I've two questions:

1. What has been your experience of selling vinyl on eBay or other marketplaces?

2. How much of a pain in the backside is it to convert vinyl albums to MP3?

Thank you, you wonderful human beings.

After watching the splendid BBC4 documentary on Stax, I was wondering what the Word community's response would be to this question - if you had to make a choice, which would it be: Stax or Motown? Why?

Nailing my colours up, I'd have to go for Stax. They had a groove that the Motown silly symphonies just couldn't match.

Hello friends

I'm stuck at home with the cold and my head hurts too much for me to read. I've got the new Word podcast ticking over in my Pod ready to help me feel a bit better but could do with a few more to get me through the day. Any recommendations? I already pick at Speechification and Fry's podgrams but there's so much choice I don't know where to start.

All ideas welcomed.

Not wanting to be morbid or anything, but as I was walking home from work yesterday my iPod played Afterglow by The Small Faces and I thought to myself, 'This must be on the list of songs I want played as the old coffin slides through the curtain.'

I then realised that this list was actually fairly extensive and getting longer every day. It includes Thirty Century Man by Scott Walker, No Regrets by Martyn Bennett and, well, I could go on and on. These are not necessarily my desert island discs - I just like the idea of having them played at whatever ceremony happens after I go.

Am I alone in having thought about this? Has anyone else shortlisted their funeral numbers?

This seems like such an obvious blog topic that someone's probably already done it.

Lots of folk seem to agree that, in the final analysis, 'The Beatles' is a really stupid name for a band, yet it's so familiar, and signifies so many other things that we no longer recognise it as such. There must be quite literally hundreds of these: good band with a rubbish name. For instance:

Cinematic Orchestra (like calling yourself 'Loud Rock n' Roll Band')
Elbow
The Band (fer cryin' out loud)
Oasis (not a great band but it is an awful name)
The Kinks

Any others..?

It has recently occurred to me that there are some splendid segues out there just waiting to be imagined. In this age of (now infra-dig) mashing and whatnot, there is still joy to be found in combining drastically different songs. For instance, 'Tomorrow Never Knows' segues very nicely into 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' by Andy Williams. Fair enough, but I figured I'd found a serious mine of pub-gamery when I realised that 'Paint It Black' would work splendidly as a medley with 'The Laughing Gnome'. It really works. My other half suggested that 'Gimme Shelter' would fit quite nicely with 'True' by Spandau Ballet.

I suspect (and hope) that I'm not the only one to have thought of such sublime combinations. Any other suggestions?