Favourites up to November 2007 (but quite stale by then)

Alasdair Roberts, Farewell Sorrow

Bob Dylan, 1978 shows

Kate Bush, Aeriel

Richard and Linda Thompson, I want to see the bright lights tonight ('Withered and Died')

Sandy Denny, Gold Dust ('Solo', 'Who Knows Where the Time Goes?')

Animal Collective, Feels ('Daffy Duck')

Antony & the Johnsons, I am a bird now

George Harrison, All Things Must Pass

The Orb, 'Little Fluffy Clouds'

Art Brut 'Formed a Band'

Four Tet, 'Spirit Fingers'

Pole 'raum 3'

Aimee Mann 'one'

and lots of John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker.

Favourites up to December 2005

Joanna Newson, The Milk-Eyed Mender

Can, Anthology 1968-1993, first CD

The Fall, 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong

Nico, The Marble Index

Cocteau Twins, Four Calender Cafe

Rava Shankar, Master of Sitar

Louis Armstrong Hot 5's and 7's Box Set

The Raga Guide (A Survey of 74 Hindustani Ragas)

Mary Lou Lord, Live: City Sounds ('You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go')

Robert Wyatt, solar flares burn for you ('I'm a believer') & Cuckooland

The Wire Tapper 10 (Susanna and the Magical Band 'Believer' - which will be a worldwide hit, surely)

Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series vol 3

AKA Pygmies

Ligeti, African Rhythms

A few favourites, up to November 2003:

Parliament, Osmium

Gram Parsons

Monica Queen, Ten Sorrowful Mysteries

Iggy Pop, Lust for Life/The Idiot

Duke Ellington

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Lambchop is a woman

REM, New Adventures in Hi-Fi (one of the worst sequenced albums in history)

Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker

Elvis Costello & Anne Sophie Von Otter, For the Stars

The Beach Boys, Sunflower

Nico, The Marble Index

Cocteau Twins, everything

Vladislav Delay, Entain & Anima & Multila

Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis

Brian Eno, complete works

Serge Gainsbourg, Melody Nelson

The New Goodies Cassette (I intend to write something about Bill Oddie as songwriter)

All-time songs

Bob Dylan, 'Tangled Up in Blue' - version on Official Bootlegs 1-3

Dusty Springfield, 'Tupelo Honey'

Stevie Wonder, 'For Once in my Life'

The Beach Boys, 'Disney Girls'

The Beatles, 'Here Comes the Sun'