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Anyway, everyone knows Deirdre is into Slipknot.

Only bands like anal cunt count as "metal" to rune. He doesn't think of tool as "metal" either. thing is if you define a genre so narrowly there'll be nothing in it. And genres are a marketing term: useful, but pointless.

They do get everyone talking though, which is the point. Anyway, lists tell you more about the people who compile them than anything else. If as Mel said the 100 was from a list of 125 then that says a lot about C4's faith in the Great British Public. Incidently does anyone remember the poll in 1999? Also on C4? Revolver came first, Stone Roses 2nd, Sgt Pepper 3rd. Joy Division and VU& Nico were both Top 10. Much better!

If you can tell me why OK Computer is better than "Ladies and Gentlemen", I'll see you outside! Jog on, mate!

The jazz in Kef is brilliant and it's mostly the same band that played in Morgans - Bug and Friends. Apart from that there's only the blue Lamp, which is damn pricey - they charged for B&F when it's free in Kef. If you wanna explore it more in your home check out the jazz section in Fopp. Many classics for 5. Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cecil Davis, Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock are all AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING.

Yeah but isn't techno therefore a challenge for you??

I'd say I'm an 8. Although I'm a bit of a muso, I also like pop music, which might sound strange given todays charts, but there's times I like to listen to Vic Reeve's "Dizzy" or Betty Boo's "Where Are You Baby?" and find them so infectiously groovy. I also like folk (Nick Drake, Joni Mitchell), jazz (Miles, Coltrane, Taylor etc), dance/electronica (Leftfield, Aphex Twin, Air, Goldie), rock (the VU, GNR, Sex Pistols, Pink Floyd), classical (Beethoven, Holst), funk (Stevie, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson's earlier stuff), hip hop (Public enemy, Ice T, Grandmaster flash), christ I even like Abba (Arrival, not Super Trouper). And I like Obituary and Free Jazz and Throbbing Gristle. And I like 80's new romo stuff like Tubeway Army, early New Order. Oh and I like Marillion, well the Fish stuff anyway. is that broad enough?

Vocals - Kelly Jones Guitar - Steve Vai (I hate all that guitar wank - yeah you can play but can you write a good song?!) Keyboards - Rick Wakeman Bass - John Entwhistle (just kidding, couldn't think of anyone) Drums - Rick Allen (tasteless I know...)

Best gig in Aberdeen I saw was by a band called Opus, about 3 years ago. Never heard of them since... anyone know?

Tough call. I'd say Slayer for their classic Show No Mercy-Hell Awaits-Reign In Blood-South Of Heaven-Seasons In The Abyss albums (I lost interest after that for some reason), or Metallica for Ride The Lighning-Master Of Puppets-...And Justice For All. (The Black album is so feckin overrated), for consistent quality. but for the single best metal album, I'd go Appetite For Destruction.

Some of the worst LP covers I've ever seen are in the charity shop opposite Safeway on King St. There's one particular classic with some twat with one of the cheap and nasty "Scottish" outfits on, the full white neck ruff too, standing in a shipyard, entitled "Songs For The Scottish Working Man". The horror of the music within can only be imagined. I'd buy it if I knew how to scan it onto a PC...

Christ now I think of it i should have said the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. They are fecking awesome.

What's the track listing?

Here's some trivia questions: 1. Which band/artist is the only one to have the entrie top 5 in the USA singles chart? 2. Which band is the only one where all 4 members have written No 1 singles?

I can't believe someone else remembers old Yngwie!! I mind reading about him in Kerrang! back in 1988. Jeez that takes me back. Here's ma A-Z: a. Air b. Beatles c. Clash d. Davis, Miles e. Enemy, Public f. Faith No More g. Guns N Roses h. Happy Mondays i. Iron Maiden j. John Coltrane k. KLF l. Lennon, John m. Metallica n. Nirvana o. Oldfield, Mike p. Pink Floyd q. Queen r. Radiohead s. Stone Roses t. Tricky u. Undertones v. Velvet Underground w. White, Barry x. XTC y. Youth, Sonic z. Zeppelin, Led

As far as "genres" go I like so many of them I totally disregard them: it's all about the bands or artists, not the genre. Anywat, lumping together The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols and The Stranglers together as punk is as silly as lumping together Blur, Oasis and Pulp as Britpop. Genres are conveneient journalistic labels, nothing more. And the more you define it, the less precise it gets. What's post-hardcore, how's it different from hard-core? Why were The Stranglers punk and not Dr Feelgood? Why are Pearl Jam and Nirvana both supposed to be "grunge"? What I like are the good skillful exponents of particular musical forms, not the forms in themselves. I.e. Obituary, not Lawnmower Death; Pink Floyd, not Yes; Sex Pistols, not 999. And above all The Beatles and Miles Davis, because they invented musical styles and forms instead of following them!!

The book's even scarier than the film... not too many books can do that. "The Shining" is a much better film than book, as is "Carrie". Maybe it's just Stephne King though!

I'm going to receive some stolen goods, and then sell them on.

"IT" gave me the willes at some point. But I was quite young at the time. So did "The Omen" - the only book that made me frightened to turn off the light...

Yeah, they were superb though. Only quibble was that the bass was fuzzed up for "The National Anthem": it was better played with John Cale-esque heaviness. Oh and that nobody moved!! Me and my mates were going nuts and all the Next-wearing blokes were standing round, arms crossed, only singing along to "Creep" and "Fake Plastic Trees". Hardly enthusing! Asian Dub Foundation were shit hot too!!

Leftfield at T In the Park, 2000. I had, ahem, been partaking that weekend, and was absolutely stunned by Leftfield. They were more intense than any rock band and visually utterly gripping: I felt like that bit in Clockwork Orange where Malcolm McDowall has his eyes gripped open by pins. There was all this red light and dry ice, so that when Afrikaa Bambataa came out on stage he looked like some demon from the nether reaches of hell. And when they played "Phat Planet"... it felt like that bit in Scanners when the guy's head blows up. WOW.

Sadly yes. They used to have them in the P&J (can you believe that? That none-more-parcohial bag of shite!) til readers wrote in complaining they "didn't get them". Morons!