I've just joined my local library which has a cd section. Picked up Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets. Hear of it but never heard it before. I've been playing it whilst cooking this evening - it sounds bloody great. Where has this album been all my life? Can anyone recommend any more Eno? I wouldn't know where to start. Ta, Massive.

I've just bought an i-phone and am looking for advice for good apps to download. Any suggestions? Doesn't have to be music based. Ta.

NME's top 100 tracks of the decade has been announced. I'm suprised that i've got 47 of those songs on my i-pod, much more than I would have expected.

List of 100 below.

Last year the winner of the noxious X-Factor Alexandra Burke released a version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallellujah”. This release for me was a bit of a double-edged sword. On one side it was great to see a great song reach a larger audience, making the writer a few bob in the bargain. However the other selfish part of me feels like “we” lost the song to the general music public. So I was wondering which previously chart-free songwriter may be lucky this year. Will Simon Cowell thrust Richard Thompson’s “The Great Valerio” onto Radio 1 listeners’ eardrums? Will Cheryl Cole enjoy one of her young charges singing “Time” by Tom Waits or “The French Inhaler” by Warren Zevon. So Posse, which song would you love or hate this years X-Factor winner to perform? Don’t forget its bound to be this years Xmas No.1. Let’s make it a good one eh?

Tonight I will commence the playing of my Christmas i-pod playlist. Too early you say? Let me explain. My father started this tradition with my family. We would come back from the neighbourhood bonfire/fireworks party and he would drag out his Nat King Cole and Andy Williams Christmas lp’s and the whole family would sit, listen and enjoy. Sadly my father passed away when I was 15, but I always remember this part of his personality with huge joy and continued his Bonfire night tradition when I had a family. Even though my daughter is now 17, she asked me this morning “Christmas songs start tonight then.” So be as cynical as you like there is one 38 year old Welshman who will hoist a glass to his father whilst Nat begins to sing “Chesnuts roasting on an open fire....” tonight. Happy Christmas to all the posse.

Can't remember ever seeing Michael Jackson actually playing an instrument, can anyone remember seeing him strumming a guitar or playing a piano?

Wondering if any of the Word Massive can help me?

Many moons ago I VHS-taped a version of Steve Winwood on the (not Old Grey) Whistle Test playing a piano and vocal version of Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys. The tape has been mislayed, probably lost and I'd love to hear that version again.

Does anyone know whether a piano and vocal version lurks on a Winwood B-side or 12" extra track that I could snap up on ebay?

Many thanks lads and lasses.

Hi all,

I'm running the London Marathon a week on Sunday for Heart Uk. My father died of a heart attack in his early fifties and my father in law had a series of heart attacks in his forties so it's a charity close to my heart (excuse the pun).

If any of you would be so kind to sponsor me I would be very appreciate.

www.justgiving.co.uk/stevejackswan

Fraser, If this contravenes web rules please delete. Ta.

I'm running the London Marathon a week on Sunday and have been doing a lot of training whilst listening to my ipod. Near where I live there is miles of cycle tracks (built upon old railway tracks) and whilst running along these paths, through the trees certain songs sound, well, just perfect. I'd loosely describe the kind of music as "pastoral". A kind of acoustic, birds chirping, English countyside kind of music. A few artists that have really hit the spot are Nick Drake, Vaughan Williams and Skylarking era-XTC. Could anyone please recommend any more to make my runs more enjoyable on my ears. Ta chaps and chapesses.

Listening to U2 playing new track "Get on your boots" last night on Jonathon Ross I thought the melody to the verse was a tad familiar to Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up" (the line where Costello sings "Though you try to stop it she's like a narcotic etc).

It's availble to listen on spotify.

spotify:track:3CJdDqehVinU810wsTjt6v
http://open.spotify.com/track/3CJdDqehVinU810wsTjt6v

Anyone else hear a similarity or is it just me?

I have a lot of video's I bought of concerts etc and want to convert them to DVD's as they are no longer available to buy in the shops.

Is there anyone who can let me know an easy way to do this task?

Many thanks in anticipation.

On local South Wales radio station they are currently running a Christmas phone in. You have to recognise the song or artist to win a Wii. Yesterday they played Elton John's "Step Into Christmas". The contestant guessed White Christmas so the DJ started dropping hints - he sang with Kiki Dee, wears flamboyant clothes and glasses, sang "Goodye Yellow Brick Road", after this last hint the contestant said......"The Wizard of Oz". Honest to God. Almost crashed my car.

Further to David Hepworth's post on Danny Baker, here are the lyrics to a version of Bohemian Rhapsody he presented where the words are all the surnames of footballers past and present.

It really is genius, fair play.

Larry William's "Bony Moronie" came on my ipod on shuffle mode earlier and features a chorus got me thinking. The chorus is (of course) "I love her, and she loves me, boy, how happy we can be,makin love underneath the apple tree". It was the "making love" reference that had me puzzled. It was a hit in 1958 (just checked the Guiness book of British hit singles) and to my 37yr old years it seems quite a racy lyric for the late 50's. Even 63/64 etc the Beatles, Stones and Kinks weren't as expicit. I know that Blues music was far filthier and in an earlier period but I'm referring to general radio friendly pop music. Was this the earliest obvious mention of sex in music?

Below info from Yahoo news......

"The remaining X Factor finalists are reportedly angry about the song which has been selected for the winner of this year's series. It's been leaked that the winner will record a cover of Leonard Cohen's single Hallelujah, which has already been performed by Diana Vickers during the early stages of the show.
After her performance Louis Walsh said that she had 'made it totally her own' which has led to accusations of favoritism."

Oh Lord, please make it stop..........