No Reply - good call.

Elvis - His Latest Flame: yes, I suppose so. Personally I'd go with Suspicious Minds. The best combination of early and late styles, and the single from his best recording sessions. However, Simon Cowell likes it, so maybe not.

The Clash - surely it HAS to be London Calling.

Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone. Obvious because it's true.

The Rolling Stones - how about Brown Sugar? When I loved their sixties stuff, this was the only seventies one that I liked. However, the more I think about it, it should be Honky Tonk Women. Or 19th Nervous Breakdown. Or Jumpin' Jack Flash. Hell, Satisfaction. I can't decide.

Top 'cast again - great content and sound! But one little niggle - in the words of Julian Richer in his book about customer satisfaction, customers don't generally mind waiting but they hate being ignored....nearly 7 minutes before you sort of acknowledged there is an audience out there? Hello?

But we like to play around with these things - a lot of comments in the past have described how they feel the 'cast is a bit like overhearing a conversation in a pub, so we've been trying to replicate that vibe a bit more. Also, one of the things we like about 'casting is the fact that everyone listening has *chosen* to do so. Hopefully this means that our (erudite, intelligent and no doubt damned good looking, to boot) listeners can cope with waiting to find out who's in the pod this week.

However, consider it taken on board.

Not the most inclusive of topics to react to, but I was at the same Lucinda Williams gig as Mark last week (didn't spot him... but why was John Alderton there?)

Anyway, the double-suicide soliloquy he mentions in this week's Podcast was doubly remarkable in that Lucinda's rambling message to her bereaved road crew amounted to telling them: your friends took the coward's way out. But she did say it in a caring way.

PS: I really didn't like the sound at the 02 Indigo that night. It was "clear" but too dry and lifeless. Anyone else been there and found themselves in sonic distress?

We went to see Lucinda on the Sunday and we were all taken with the excellence of the sound. I'm not sure what you mean by lifeless; it seemed anything but. I'll take the crisp clear sound of Indigo where you can pick out every note over many other venues any day.

to play AC/DC tracks. If you were lucky enough to attend their gig at the NEC in the late 80's they were recording the video for 'Thunderstruck' and members of the audience were given cardboard guitars to rock out with.

D Hepworth: "Why would you need refreshing after 2 lines?"

Well, surely job done and you wouldn't, would you? Unless you take a leaf out of Ronnie Wood's book and maybe have a Guinness to take the edge off.

By the way, who was that laughing like Basil Brush during the Sooty story?

whoever looks after The Word office supplies cupboard may be interested in these:
http://www.suck.uk.com/product.php?rangeID=81&rangeNew=1&showBar=1.

sorry to post a blind link but to say more would spoil the surprise...

PS despite the site name there's nothing to scare the horses at the end of the link

apparently the end of the podcast this week is intended to simulate the reduction in volume as, holding the packet of crisps in your teeth and watching the froth settle on your lager and lime, you make your way back from the bar past the chortling duffers in the snug. Call it audio voyeurism.