Todd is God

Not the usual kind of post for this site, but here are my top 10 list of the things that have occupied me this year .. Albums of the Year Picking my favourite 10 albums of the year was actually very hard this year, whilst 7 jumped straight in, there were then about another 10 that were all worthy of taking one of the final 3 spots in my list, so a pretty good year on that evidence. However, to keep things to 10, my list (in no particular order) is: 1. Bruce Springsteen - The Seeger Sessions Who would have thought that an album of Pete Seeger covers would result in one of the finest albums of Springsteen's career? This album is just a joy. It really is impossible to play this and not end up singing along with the likes of 'Oh Mary don't you weep' and to do so with a big smile on your face. Quite probably my album of 2006. 2.The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics From the sing-a-long joy of 'The Yeah Yeah Yeah song', 'It Overtakes Me' and 'Race for...

Q. Here's a strange thing. Did you see that Todd Rundgren, whom you fought with so much when he produced "Skylarking," is touring around as the lead singer of the Cars? A. I always thought the Cars were frighteningly bland. I thought they were like the food that people serve in old people's retirement homes, the stuff where there's somebody behind the screen chewing up the food before they serve it. From an interview with Andy Partridge in the Boston Globe last week.

In no particular order - although the first 5 are are those that would be in my top 5. 1. Christina Aquilera - 'Aint No Other Man' 2. Union of Knives - 'Operated On' EP 3. The Lemonheads - 'Become the Enemy' 4. The Killers - 'When We Were Young' 5. Amy Winehouse - 'Rehab' 6. Pearl Jam - 'World Wide Suicide' 7. Nerina Pallot - 'Everybody's Gone to War' 8. The Dresden Dolls - 'Backstabber' 9. Kasabian - 'Shoot the Runner' 10. Depeche Mode - 'Suffer Well'