call me morbid, call me pale

That's going to bug me now - I'm sure the line goes "I've spent six long days in jail" and I'm 80% certain its Half a Person by the Smiths - can you confirm ? Just award a 5 to anything you'd put in top 20% and work down from there - 5's don't have to be perfect, just stuff you think 'Blimey, that's good'

i've spent six years on your trail.. quite right, Andrew - Half a Person. nice one! i'm listening to it now, in fact, while trying to work out where i'm going this evening. five stars!!

I always liked with the second Elastica record that the music press raved about a song she'd written about Damon with the wonderful line "In the days when we were hopelessly poor / I just liked you more" - how honest, how perceptive, how insightful. None of them pointed out that she'd nicked it direct from Half a Person.

yes, i liked the look of Elastica and what they were about. but they really didn't have any original ideas at all, did they?

Other than going out and buying a load of Wire records from the second hand record shops, no. Loved "Stretch out and wait" - it will be getting a cherry in a minute or two. And top, top pick with The Witch with the Iron Head - I was really impressed with this when I read it.