Everyone else seems to have done it already, so let's follow the crowd.

This is how it works, isn't it? The thing with dividing your result by Radiohead's listeners? Ah well. I'll have a go anyway.

The Damned – 27, 984
The Velvet Underground – 162, 304
Patrick Wolf – 32, 189
Echo & the Bunnymen – 67,848
Roxy Music – 42, 438
The Only Ones – 10, 940
Wire – 40, 141
Lou Reed– 93, 400
Belle and Sebastian – 199, 317
Bob Dylan – 225, 207

Total: 902,041
Average: 69, 908

Radiohead listeners – 399, 867

69,908/…

Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Maybe someone's already done a great cover of it, but if they haven't, then they should do one soon.

Gareth Gates does not count, by the way. His cover was rubbish.

I can imagine someone doing to Unchained Melody what The Damned did to Eloise. If I was a musician, I'd do it myself.

I remember his birthday even though I occasionally forget my parents' birthdays. Worrying?

The Damned have a few songs that are known universally. New Rose, Neat Neat Neat, Eloise…everyone knows those songs. Well, not everyone. Most people. So I thought I'd celebrate Mr Vanian's birthday by making a list. A list of Damned songs people may not be so familiar with. A list of…

Underrated Damned Songs

1: Idiot Box

Music For Pleasure is probably everyone's least favourite Damned album. To be fair, it is stuck between Damned Damned Damned and Machine Gun Etiquette, so of course it's…

…my old N'Sync CDs, for no apparent reason. I haven't listened to them since I was about eleven. Anyway, I was watching various videos on YouTube, and I decided to go and listen to my old guilty pleasures.

But I felt like watching one more video, so I chose, at random, "Stagger Lee" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. I hadn't heard it before, and as I've been listening to a lot of Nick Cave recently, I thought I'd give it a go.

Five minutes and ten seconds later, my craving for N'Sync had completely disappeared. You can't…

I've been listening to everything I can find on the internet (which isn't very much, sadly) by The Sonics.

They are my new favourite band. Perhaps it's too early to say, seeing as I've only heard a handful of songs, but I love what I've heard. They've been described before as the first punk band, even pre-dating The Stooges, and listening to some of their songs, you can see why.

As much as people go on about the Sex Pistols being the first punk band, really, the Americans got there first. So what if the Sex Pistols were…

I've ranted about Blink 182 ruining The Only Ones' "Another Girl Another Planet" before, and now I'm going to rant about another terrible cover version.

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists slaughtering the Split Enzclassic Six Months in a Leaky Boat.

Why bother covering a perfect song? It's outrageous. I heard the cover for the first time and felt slightly sick. Sorry if I'm exaggerating. I have strong feelings on the subject of bad cover versions.

Shall we compare? I know this is biased, seeing as one is a proper video, and the other is bad quality concert footage,…

My new favourite song, you know.

Ever since I watched the BBC4 programme on Stiff records, I've been listening to The Damned, Wreckless Eric, Madness and other Stiff artists a lot. Through the programme I discovered Lene Lovich, and since then I've been listening to Lucky Number on repeat. Love it.

Here's the video. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvErh74r-5Q

P.S

Watching the programme also reminded me of how much I hate Elvis Costello's voice. Argh. Maybe it's an acquired taste.

Talk about impulse buying!

In The Guardian there was a mention of Patrick Wolf. I remembered reading about him ages ago, and thinking he sounded interesting. So I went on the internet, listened to everything I could find through YouTube and various MP3 websites, and I decided I loved him. Yesterday afternoon I ran to my nearest HMV and bought a copy of Wind in the Wires.

Excellent. I know I've made this discovery a hundred times later than everyone else, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. Discovering Patrick Wolf reminded me of discovering Antony and the…

Everyone's been so nice and helpful about Bob Dylan, I'm hoping that you'll be equally nice and helpful about Nick Cave. Or The Birthday Party. Or Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

I've heard the odd song through the internet, and I love everything I've heard, so I don't yet have any preferences when it comes to buying albums. I don't know any Nick Cave fans, so I don't have anyone to recommend albums to me.

Any advice?

It's ridiculous to know "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and nothing else.

Wish me luck on my musical explorations.

And if anyone has a particular Bob Dylan song or album they'd like to recommend, feel free to post suggestions.