This one made my day (although not perhaps last month's cover star's):

Did I really just hear Mark Ellen say that he rips his new CD acquisitions onto his iPod and then gets rid of the "hard copy"? Did the editor of an esteemed international musical organ, and bedfellow of the music biz, really just say his iPod is full of music he no longer legally owns, on account of no longer owning the hard copy. Oo-er, and the podcast freely available as Exhibit A!

Thanks to your Stevie Riks heads-up I've managed to drag myself away from the disturbing world of Millican & Nesbitt. (Well, for now.)

I won't post any more clips here because the bloke has 336 videos on his own YouTube channel

A few recommended ones from my first dip in:

Elvis "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (straight, but 100% nailed)
Marc Bolan "Life's A Gas"
Gilbert O'Sullivan's Christmas song
Teach Yourself David Bowie (the larf!)
Bowie sings Simon & Garfunkel
John Lydon recites "Fever"
Neil Young seeks the lost chord
David Essex "Rock On". . . and on. . . and on.

I suspect a few people aren't going to get much work done for the rest of the day.

Especially when the dog comes in. Found all this last year whilst looking for some of Peter Serafinowicz's Beatles stuff. I suggest that they team up!

Like yourselves, I'm ready to digitize my vinyl, got the kit - but a actually can't bear to start. Makes me melancholic how I miss knowing an album from start to finish, having the two act drama of a significance perhaps to how side one ends and the new beginning of side two. If CD fatally wounded that, the iPod finished it off with a Wire like shot to the head. Sure I use the severed artery of music that is the shuffling iPod but let's be honest it's like the microwave compared to your mum's roast chicken and rice pudding. Not to mention pouring over a 12 inch sleeve, leaving occasional traces of tobacco and cannabis thereon. Beth Orton nailed it in Serena Cross's great BBC doc about John Martyn: put the needle down, inhale, be transported and wake from some wonderful reverie to the sound on the click of the centre groove. But thanks as ever for a great magazine, CD and podcast (pulling together an hour's fascinating chat a week is quite something); I'm still digesting it all.

JR and Dignity – never knowingly seen in the same room. Whenever his show comes on the same thought recurs: is it really a week since I changed the water in the fish tank?

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a) JRoss is an ass: YES!

b) Rating your tracks your mp3 player: life's too short, if you don't like a track....delete it! Afterall, WORD people don't give out stars :-)

Another enjoyable discussion.

Thanks.

Give star ratings to you ipod tracks 'so they won't play crap 1 star songs'. What a muppet! Don't put the bloody rubbish on there in the first place.

That n the phrasea 'digitizing my vinyl' and 'Iron Man is a great film' made me give this podcast a mere 2 stars.......d'oh!