I know there are some who don't like Doctor Who (Mr Ellen and Hepworth to name two) but here's a nice montage of his regenerations so far, for those who do like the show.

I know this clip has been doing the rounds but it is very good, drunk ref from Belarus.

Talk on another blog referring to cover-versions got me thinking- How many bands/artists have I discovered due to cover versions?

Off the top of my head R.E.M.'s versions of "Wall of Death" and "First We Take Manhattan" opened my eyes and ears to the wonderful Mr Thompson and Cohen. Manfred Mann and The Byrds were the first singers of Bob Dylan songs that I heard as a youth.

Anyone else discover a pivotal artist to them through a cover version?

With talk of shite sit-coms (Hi-De-Hi included) I was reminded of Paul Shane's "original" take of "You've Lost That Loving Feeling". For those of you unlucky enough never to have seen it here it is......

Further to some of the posts on this entry http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/is-self-releasing-way-forwardyes-a... at what age does the dream of "making it" in the music industry end?

Someone mentioned over 30, is that a respectable age to put all that "nonsense" aside? I like a few on here was in a band for a time but realised my songwriting and vocals were never going to pay the rent and gave it all up years ago. I have one friend who still makes demos and is waiting to be discovered. He's 35 and has never had what some would call a "proper" job - he lives the dream. I'm not talking about having fun being in a covers band, I mean still waiting to be discovered.

What is the oldest age a significant musical artist or band has been discovered?

When I was growing up if someone asked me what music I liked i'd say simply "Indie". It could be New Order or The Smiths or Depeche Mode or Dr. Phibes & The House of Wax Equations. You get the idea. Whilst browsing under "indie" on Wikipedia I discovered new genres created after 2000. The mind boggles.

Post-punk revival: Interpol, The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Maxïmo Park, Franz Ferdinand, Modest Mouse, Editors, The Kooks, The Cribs, The Killers, The Fratellis, Bloc Party ,Lórien

Garage rock revival: The Strokes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Kings of Leon, The Hives, Ikara Colt, Motel Motel, Mclusky, Mooney Suzuki, The White Stripes, The Vines,The Horrors, The Von Bondies, The Black Keys, Dirty Little Rabbits

Dance-punk: Death From Above 1979, The Rapture, Klaxons, MGMT, MSTRKRFT, Shitdisco, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, New Young Pony Club, !!!, Q and Not U, Foals, Does It Offend You, Yeah?, Cansei de Ser Sexy,Cut Copy,

Baroque pop: Arcade Fire, Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, John Vanderslice, Broken Social Scene, Islands, Stars, Cloud Cult

New prog: Mew, Porcupine Tree, Muse, The Mars Volta, Los Hermanos, Battles, People in Planes.

New Weird America or freak folk: Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Kimya Dawson, Animal Collective, Six Organs of Admittance

Post-rock: Explosions in the Sky, Pelican, Sigur Rós, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Psych folk: No-Neck Blues Band, Brightblack Morning Light, Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, Entrance .

Nice to know I'm a fan of a genre I never knew existed. "Barouque Pop" indeed!

My broadband connection where i live is erratic and when i'm downloading podcasts they sometimes freeze halfway through, so i pause that download and start again and they continue downloading from the point of the pause.

Apart from the Word Podcast, if i pause it, it restarts at the beginning. But, it didn't used to do this, the setting seems to have changed. When you download through i-tunes the pause button for various other 'casts is a pause icon for the Word podcast its a cross, hence it stops rather than pauses.

Is there something I can do to enable to pause the Word podcast half way through or is it something Word themselves are doing?

Thanks chaps.

I've got 384 songs by Guided By Voices on my ipod. That's not counting the 201 songs by Robert Pollard that he's recorded under his own name. That's 585 out of my 'pods 14278 songs by one singer/songwriter. That's considerably more than anyone else. There's good showing from XTC/Andy Partridge 296, Bowie 255, R.E.M. 235, Billy Bragg 171, Bob Dylan 163 and The Beatles 151 amongst others.

Anyone else want to share their most represented artists on their i-pod/mp3 player?

Listening to U2 "Joshua Tree" album last night, superb album that just flows tracklisting-wise through the album. It reminded me of the story of how they came to the tracklisting decision.

The band and producer Steve Lillywhite had all drafted their tracklisting and couldn't decide on an agreed final one so Lillywhite suggested his then wife Kirsty MacColl having a go.
Next morning he comes in with this listing

1. Where The Streets Have No Name
2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
3. With Or Without You
4. Bullet The Blue Sky
5. Running To Stand Still
6. Red Hill Mining Town
7. In God's Country
8. Trip Through Your Wires
9. One Tree Hill
10. Exit
11. Mothers Of The Disappeared.

All four members all agree that this listing is perfect and ask Kirsty how she came upon this order, "Easy" she says "My Favourite song, My second favourite, Third favourite" etc etc.

Brilliant.

My father-in-law is a huge Bob Dylan fan and used to live next door to Terry Williams ex Dire Straits drummer before he moved. When Terry realised my in-laws love of Dylan he told him that Bob had visited/stayed at Terry's house. This house is round the corner from Dylan Thomas childhood home in Uplands, Swansea. The gist of the tale was that Williams mentioned the close proximity of his home to Dylan Thomas' when they were working togther (Mid Eighies I would presume) and they travelled down and Bob stayed there. I don't know whether this was Terry just pulling my father-in-law's leg or whether this story was true. It's always had the feeling of a tall tale to me, slightly more believable than Tommy Steele and Elvis though I warrant you. Any Dylan fan's out there got an opinion? Cheers.

I've been taking this opportunity in the good weather to use the ipod speakers that my wife bought me for my birthday back in March. Lovely relaxing way to end a working day, sipping vino, sizzling meat on the barbie listening to quality music. But what I'm finding is that i'm running over to the ipod on a regular basis to stop certain songs playing. It just seems that certain bands and artists aren't suitable for playing in the garden where the neighbours might hear. Not talking about excessive swearing just the mere sound of said bands. Tom Waits I adore, but not in this environment. The Fall? nope. Wheras The Ramones, The Beach Boys, XTC, Squeeze and any reggae sounds great to these ears. Any thoughts on the subject?

I've been looking at http://www.everyhit.com/ which is an excellent U.K. top 40 information site.

Suprising how low in the charts some songs where in retrospect.

Michael Jackson - Thriller No.10
Bob Dylan - Knocking on heavens door - 14
Kate Bush - Hounds of love -18
R.e.m. - Losing my religion -19
Monkees - Last train to clarksville- 23
Prince - Rasberry beret - 25

Would have sworn that all of those were huge hits in their day due to radio play they still recieve.

Also, i know The Beatles released Yesterday and Back In The Ussr years after they split - they only reached 8 and 19 respectively.

I've been playing a lot of Billy Bragg recently and have been reminded on Mr. Bragg's "borrowing" of lines from other songs and tweaking of them.

There is the wholesale steal of "I was twenty one years when I wrote this song" from "Leaves that are green" by Simon & Garfunkel and used in his own "A New England", the slight change in the lyrics "dedicated swallower of fascism" from "Accident Waiting to happen" which is changed from "dedicated follower of fashion" by The Kinks and "freedom's just another word for nothing left to sell" from Bragg's "Marching song of the covert batallians" cribbed from "freedoms just another word for nothing left to lose" from Kris Kristofferson's Me & Bobby McGee.

Any more for any more?

Just when you thought there was no more musical genres left...along comes Kindie.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080228/tuk-uk-britain-music-kindie-fa6b4...

Oh my lord..........

I like to think that like most of us on here I have a fairly wide and eclectic range of musical taste, except Jazz. Not that I don't want to like Jazz. Parents played me Sinatra, The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. Siblings played me Prog Rock and punk. I've listened through new wave, synth pop, eighties indie, rave and alt-country and love them all. But I've never had someone to point me in the right direction with the best Jazz albums. So kind bloggers could someone please advise me in the right direction for the best of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Count Basie, Charles Mingus etc. Birthday 37 is coming in a fortnight and the budget is ready.

10,000 readers of rival publication Q in conjunction with HMV have come up with a poll for the best 50 British albums.

I know some of us don't like polls but for those who are interested here is the top 50.

1 Definitely Maybe - Oasis
2 (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis
3 OK Computer - Radiohead
4 Revolver - The Beatles
5 The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
6 Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
7 London Calling -The Clash
8 Under The Iron Sea - Keane
9 Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
10 Urban Hymns - The Verve
11 The Bends - Radiohead
12 Abbey Road - The Beatles
13 Hopes And Fears - Keane
14 Don't Believe The Truth - Oasis
15 Violator - Depeche Mode
16 The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
17 A Night At The Opera - Queen
18 Whatever People Say I Am - Arctic Monkeys
19 The White Album - The Beatles
20 Never Mind The B******s - Sex Pistols
21 Rubber Soul - The Beatles
22 Be Here Now - Oasis
23 Absolution - Muse
24 Rio - Duran Duran
25 Parklife - Blur
26 A Rush Of Blood To The Head - Coldplay
27 The Holy Bible - Manic Street Preachers
28 Origin Of Symmetry - Muse
29 IV - Led Zeppelin
30 The Wall - Pink Floyd
31 Up The Bracket - The Libertines
32 X&Y - Coldplay
33 Who's Next - The Who
34 Black Holes And Revelations - Muse
35 Back To Black - AmyWinehouse
36 Songs Of Faith And Devotion - Depeche Mode
37 Word Gets Around - Stereophonics
38 The Fat Of The Land - Prodigy
39 Different Class - Pulp
40 In Rainbows - Radiohead
41 Hunky Dory - David Bowie
42 Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
43 Everything Must Go - Manic Street Preachers
44 Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
45 Behaviour - Pet Shop Boys
46 Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie
47 Parachutes - Coldplay
48 Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
49 Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
50 Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones

Three Muse Cd's in the top 50, two Keane Cd's in the top 13?
Don't trust the judgement of Q readers..... ;)