OK, a little quiz for Monday. From highest to lowest which of below have had the highest proportion of their albums with their image on the front cover?

a) Neil Young
b) Elton John
c) Bruce Springsteen
d) David Bowie
e) Rod Stewart
f) R Thompson
g) Bob Dylan
h) Tom Waits
i) Van Morrison

Only studio albums, no comps, collaborations (no Tin Machine, CSNY) and can be drawing as long as recognisable as artist (i.e. no Zuma, but I'l give you Born in USA, Human Touch and Lodgers as it's clearly DB's legs!)

Back from Latitude and had a great time, the kids loved it, but the organisers really should hold their heads in shame as there were a lot of very unhappy campers around.

We had friends who had no water on their campsite for virtually the whole weekend, which certainly tested their patience. Apparently H&S said the water wasn't good enough and no solution was found.

We were on the family campsite, which didn't take long to turn into a quagmire, which the organisers didn't really seem to be too bothered about. To see families trying to push prams through 6-10 inches of mud makes any claims to be a family-friendly festival sound fairly hollow. I saw a lot of young families packing up and going home on Saturday lunchtime and I can't really blame them.

No effort was made to make the main route from the family camping to the toilets and the festival more manageable. If they weren't willing to fork out for tracks, then surely some straw or chippings would have been possible?

We drove out yesterday at about 9pm and we saw cars getting stuck left, right and centre. The only help that seemed to be on hand was a couple of young lads whose advice was "just put your foot down and hope for the best". Great! I wouldn't be surprised if people were still trying to get out now.

As for the festival itself, the site itself held up pretty well. We popped into the Word tent on Saturday and everyone including Messers Hepworth, Mossman, Lewery and others were sat round tables chatting and nobody acknowledged us or said hello. After five minutes of standing there, we walked out and my wife said "well, that was s**t". All felt a bit, dare I say it, cliquey!

Apart from that, we had a great weekend. Not sure I would go again though; it ain't cheap and to expect campers to go four days without any water is expecting a little bit much of people.

Did anyone else go, and what did you think?

The latest NPR Fresh Air podcast is a quite amazing interview with Jessica Goodell who was a US Marine in the Mortuary Affairs Unit and has written a book of her experiences.

If you enjoyed The Junior Officer's Reading Club, this is a rather different look at combat in Iraq from a woman's perspective. Definitely worth a listen.

As someone who applied for a fair number of Olympic tickets and got nowt, I'm increasingly fed up with Lord Coe telling us what a great system the ballot was and how fair it was.

Why can't he just admit it could have been better? It wasn't a bad system, but it could have been much better and obviously favoured those with the capacity to take a fairly significant financial hit.

Anyway, here's several ways it could have been improved:

- Greater transparency on the number of tickets available in each price bracket and how many applications had been received so far. This would have created a buzz around the whole application process and allowed people to know what odds they were up against. It would have also led to greater sales as people bid more realistically.

- Following on from the above, stop taking applications once any event was oversubscribed by ten times. This would stop everyone from watching what had been bid for and leaving it all until the last minute.

- Keep a certain amount of tickets for every event back for the second round whereby those who got nothing the first time round get priority. This would lead to a second round which isn't this anti-climatic flop where everyone know that all is left are the dregs that nobody wanted.

So why is he being so stubborn about this and pretending it was the perfect system, when clearly it wasn't?

Maybe Adele should have used some of the £4m she had left over after HMRC took their share to pay for a PR person to stop her from opening her big gob.

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My laptop has finally died. Most of my music is stored on an external drive, but there is also quite a lot on my ipod that isn't on this drive. I'm concerned that loading up a new itunes with the hard disk will result in losing everything on my ipod that isn't on it.

Any suggestions on how to not lose the ipod content would be much appreciated.

Given the balls and self-confidence it must take to get up on stage and try to make people laugh, it's no surprise that comedians think they can do, literally, everything.

Presenting, radio and writing seem natural extensions, but what makes them think they can act? Apart from possibly Chris Addison, from Izzard to Davies to Hughes to Buxton, all I can think of is wooden performances. Even someone successful on the small screen like Coogan looks out of place in the cinema.

There have been some huge successes such as Martin, Pryor and Allen but you'd struggle to call them amazing actors. So which stand-ups can really act?

I know it's very commercial and being played to death on the radio and it's the theme to some tv show. But, he's not bad is he?

Also listened to this brilliant Donny Hathaway comp (http://open.spotify.com/album/6kWqwXiHxRwvLKFScZbbdS) and it sounds like young Aloe has been listening to his fair share of Donny.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy cooking, I even quite enjoy Masterchef, particularly the professional version.

But what's it doing on for an hour and a half on Thursday and then back on BBC1 at 9 on a Friday night?

Are the BBC really that desperate for some cheap tv to fill the schedules? Or is it just me that thinks that when the Beeb finds some reality tv that is moderately popular (Strictly, Apprentice,et.) it bleeds it to death?

There's certainly no shortage of cooking on the BBC at the moment with Short and Blanc and probably countless others on daytime. Does anyone here watch any of them?

One of greats has died aged 81

Next Saturday is Music Day. Across much of Europe it's normally a pretty fine day with bands playing for free all across town. Obviously, it varies from town to town but most towns make a good effort.

Why has it never taken off in the UK? Is it the weather? Is it because it often clashes with Glastonbury? Are there too many regulations? Can we just not be bothered? I always think it's a bit of a shame....

Following on from the consistently good thread; who or what used to be consistently good, but now turns out clunker after clunker on a consistent basis.

Doesn't have to be music. Here's a few for starters:

REM Don't think there has been a band that has gone from such great heights to such an endless rut.

Q Used to be a great magazine. A long time ago.

Robert de Niro What was the last great film he was in?

Kermode & Mayo Gone from being very entertaining to tedious in the extreme. The contrived banter has turned into panto. Every time they say "hello Stephen Fry" it's goodbye from me.

Van Morrison I think 1980 pretty much marks the turning point.

Last night I was reading Andrew Collins' website and his review of Al Murray Pub Landlord at O2 and it did occur to me that this would be pretty close to my idea of hell. I then went to bed and had a nightmare that I was actually there, and hauled up on stage by the hilarious Murray.

I can only really think of one thing worse than Al Murray at O2 and that would be Al Murray at O2 with Joanna Newsom busking at the tube, musical warm-up by The Manic Street Preachers and compering by Michael Macintyre.

What's your vision of entertainment hell?

A lot of my favourite things have been below par recently by being taken out of their natural setting. Mad Men goes to California, why? Adam and Joe go to Camden, please don't. This American Life in a theatre, disaster.

I've tried to think of any instances where people go "somewhere" and it's improved the programme. But from Tony taking Meadow to college to Eastenders getting lost in Weymouth, they always seem to fail.

Has there ever been a "special" that has been anything but?

After years of not particularly obsessive record collecting, the combined effects of ebay and the web in general have meant that most of the things I'd looked for for ages have now been found.

That's not to say there aren't things I'd still like, but nothing to really make me stop in Oxfam and rifle through a bunch of old singles.

Does anybody still yearn for anything that would get them genuinely excited if they found it in a second-hand record shop or book shop? If so, what is it?