In tribute to Tom Hibbert, we must discuss this perennial enigma in depth as a matter of urgency.

Post yer suggestion here, and let's debate the matter fitfully

For starters:

...the Truth must be told once and for all.

Pick one, justify your reasons (objective, heavily biased or otherwise).

Choice clips to get us started:

Glanced at this yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/nov/15/guardian-media-group-to-rest...

"Guardian Media Group is planning an internal reorganisation aimed at aligning the company more closely with its flagship newspapers and websites.

The simplification comes as the company divides itself into a "core business" – the Guardian and Observer titles and the guardian.co.uk website network, which includes MediaGuardian.co.uk – from its "investments" – its other media interests, ranging from local radio through to shares in the Auto Trader and Emap joint ventures.

Miller, who was appointed in July, said in an internal memo that he believed that the chief executive of GMG "must be closely involved in our core business" and added that he believed that the newspapers would be his "primary focus" in the job."

...given that we fall into the latter category (i.e. "investments": GMG -> stakeholder), anything to worry about?

...how do you post a photo again?
Youtube, no bother.
But plonking an on image onto a blog entry, it's tricky man.

Seriously, help me out.
It's worth your while, honest.

Anyone want to join me on a Proustian rush?

OK then, off we go:

(sigh)

continues...

...well?

We need to get this straightened out, once and for all.

Is it

Blonde on Blonde?
Bitches Brew?
Exile?
Songs in the Key of Life?
Ooh Las Vegas?
Works vol 1?

or any others? Help me out

Any advance on The Roxy?
Happy days, eh

...not.
Every episode was like aural / visual slow-death

...when, in the Top 40 (or any other barometer of contemporary music), was the last time you heard

- a drum fill
- bassline
- guitar chop
- keyboard flourish
- etc

...that not only stirred your senses / lifted your spirits
but also
- clearly demonstrated the skills both of the individual musician(s) AND the collective band as imaginative arrangers?

For me? Been a long, long time. I have to hark back to the likes of this (dig the drumming):

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xn7kd_dodgy-in-a-room_music

If not here, then not long after.
From someone weaned on the likes of Police, P.I.L. and the Clash, there's no more damning indictment on post-Britpop music.

...don't you think, eh?
Eh?

...pound for pound, what was (is) the best-ever Musical promo clip of all time?
The perfect accompaniment (enhancement) to a classic single?
I need to think a bit more on this, but right now my gut tells me:

Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
...will take some beating here

...up until 1997 - the undisputed benchmark of UK popular musical criticism.

Why can't I find the full list on the internet anymore?
Does anyone have it handy?
If yes, could you plonk it on a reply?
Lots of fun to be had here

Evocative sounds of the season.
To get us started:

Mazzy Star - All Your Sisters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that yields a new meaning to the phrase.

To start us off:
Nowhere Man - "...isn't He a bit like you, Aunt Mimi?"

...can you guess?
Go on.

At Shea Stadium (movie) - last shown on TV 1979
Let it Be (movie) - last shown on TV 1982
At the Hollywood Bowl LP - never released on CD

...but whenever did we matter, eh?
Apple should hang their collective heads in shame.

...the finest ever Beatles pastiche gave the moribund, SAW-ridden UK singles chart a shot in the arm:

great tune, brilliant arrangement, with a bit of depth and noble intentions.
To me at least, it was a harbinger of better things just around the corner. Remember the welter of great music in the Autumn of 89?

Pity the LP wasn't nearly as good.