Top Ten Albums

[El Gordo]

You're right Andy: it was a pretty juvenile challenge. But you managed to read between the lines. I love lists, and this is a great one. Even though it's not exactly my own taste it has a definitive feel to it. So I'm glad I flushed it out of you. You bugga. The only slight suprise being Lloyd Cole.

Yes, Lloyd Cole is an odd one, and I had to think about it before including it. It was an album played constantly when I worked in a wine shop 20 years ago, and it kinda took hold. Then I forgot about it for 19 years until I came across it last year and stuck it on my iPlod. When I run, tracks keep popping up, and I realise just how inch-perfect the arrangements and production are, and how tortured the soul of the writer, and I've fallen in love with it again. But if I did the list again, it may well not appear at all.

Such is the nature of lists.