"She's Gone" by Hall & Oates just came on the radio. And wouldn't you know it sounded absolutely fantastic. Hall & Oates were always a band I liked when I was a kid and my prize possession was my radio. I didn't have a record player until I was about 14 or 15 so my only access to music apart from Top Of The Pops was the radio. To this day there's still a measure of judgement I use when listening to new music: would it sound good on the radio?

So, what's your radio favourite? Not necessarily your top bands or albums, but a song or a band that always make you want to turn the volume up, or put a smile on your face when you hear it/them?

I've been listening to Sandi Shaw this week and her Reviewing The Situation album. If you don't know the album it came out in 1969 and Sandi was in the producer's chair. It's a cover album, the title track comes from Oliver! and there's a great version of Your Time Is Gonna Come, which would appear to be the first time a Led Zeppelin song was covered.

It also features a version of Sympathy For The Devil. It's fast. Very fast. And it gets faster as the track goes on. The band sound like they can't quite keep up with the tempo and Sandie's voice is at it's nearest to helium as it can be for a lot of it. I have to add I absolutely love it. But it makes me dizzy, kind of like running very fast and then spinning around when you're a kid. The floor doesn't quite feel steady under my feet when I hear it.

Bonkers cover versions anybody?

I listen to a lot of music, a pretty broad selection. But there are people who I just don't get. I see other people loving them. I see magazines like The Word and Uncut and Q putting them on the front cover, devoting page upon page to them. And they just don't touch me.

Pink Floyd. I just don't get it. There is a certain amount of association with a crowd I was at school with here, who got into them around the same time I was discovering punk. This was about 1984/85. I was 15 or so. There was one guy, Kevin, who was to put it simply, a smug twat. Pink Floyd sound to me like the soundtrack to a stoned smug twat. They also sound like they're in a coma a lot of the time. Feel free to put me right on this!

Led Zeppelin. I've tried, I really have. I like parts of it individually. I really like the drums, especially when they've turned up as samples. A lot of it might be the vocals. They grate on me.

The Smiths/Morrisey. Not really a dislike involved here. I like certain songs a lot, Johnny Marr's guitars are lovely. And Morrisey's lyrics are amazing sometimes. But on the whole I don't feel any love, just an occasional admiration. I do have a huge love for Sandie Shaw singing I Don't Owe You Anything. That's the only Smiths I own though..

Who's your equivalent? Wonder why The Beatles are held in such high esteem? Can't work out why anybody would want to listen to Radiohead? Name them!

It's Monday, I'm bored and I'm new to The Word site. So I thought I'd jump right in.

You're now a manager employed by the record company (who have given you unlimited funds and maybe a time machine) to put together a new group. You have the entire history of music to find your players (alive or dead) from.

I'll start mine off with a new boyband Voice Squad (c'mon, boy bands have to have a crap name...):

Joe Strummer, Ian Dury, Kevin Rowland, Edwyn Collins, Morrisey.

Some of my favourite vocalists who aren't necessarily known for their 'singing' abilities; and yet who manage(d) to sing the opposition off the stage.

I'm having a quiet chuckle now imagining Morrisey doing Take That moves
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