Oh, my! That's what I said when my editor took me and Cookie (she's also Cookie's editor) to a boozer today to drink REVOLUTIONARY beer. The location was secret, you understand. The walls had pictures by Eduard (?) Artizzone, author (?) and illustrator of THE LION THAT FLEW, a book which has yet to be claimed for the twee canon. We didn't talk about YOU. We talked about FOOTBALL, I mean, Fitba. Cookie is reading an REM supplement as I tap this. If he doesn't, his REM level will drop to an unacceptable level. The other day my editor, Cookie and I went to a different boozer and undertook a scientific experiment on licensed premises. We poured beer into ourselves, inserted chips and condiments, and calculated the results of the GREATEST SONGWRITERS IN POP HISTORY list. I promised them I would present an edited version to You. I think I should perhaps delete the names who only Wrote For The Shows, because they'd sweep the board and trash all-comers. That leaves 1 McCartney 2 Costello 3 Dylan 4 Lennon 5 Morrissey / Marr 6 Bowie 7 Wilson 8 Merritt 9 Bacharach / David 10 Jagger / Richard['s'] 11 Holland / Dozier / Holland 12 Davies 13 Reed 14 Townshend 15 Robinson 16 Simon 17 King 18 Springsteen 19 Young 20 Harrison 21 Tilbrook / Difford 22 Clark 23 Morrison (V) 24 Mitchell 25 Cole Boo-hoo! Stuart Murdoch in relatively non-canonical shocker. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+