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Light My Fire by The Doors So after 30 days, and thanks to the person who has kept going all the way, we reach the end of the challenge. By going all the way back a year and asking what was my favourite I was listening to then? Fortunately because it’s all written down for all to see, I know...

Hi all - have been to Huddersfield ground a few times but never visited any of the local pubs - particularly interested that may be on the way from station to ground as meeting up with some friends coming across...any ideas on good pubs to visit before the game?

The Bare Necessities In a time before videos, DVDs and blu ray there was only one way for children to enjoy again and again the delight of a Disney film. Once it had passed on from the cinema and you’d seen it as many times as you could plea and beg with your mum and dad you were left with the...

Drive by The Cars I can’t be alone in this. As those opening strains of The Car’s Drive kick in, I’m instantly swept back to the harrowing images of Ethiopia that filled our screens in 1984 and 1985. I knew and loved The Car’s song before then and the classic Best Friend’s Girl but the moment...

ABC of Boogie Woogie - Jools Holland and Charlie Watts As someone with very low IQ (instrumental quotient) I’m not sure how I can answer this challenge. There’s the Deep Purple rift mentioned yesterday, some rather stilted Simon and Garfunkel numbers on the recorder and… well, actually that’s...

Fitter Happier by Radiohead OK, let’s get this straight. Since the age of 16 I’ve been able to play the first seven notes that form the opening to Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water but that’s when I stop. I can’t move on to the eighth note. I can’t improvise, modulate or move up a scale or...

Where's me jumper by The Sultans of Ping FC Punk in the great tradition of Jilted John (Gordon the moron) and Splodgenessabounds (two pints of lager…). The story is set for a young man who has lost his jumper, and doesn’t know where to find it. He is wracked with angst at the repercussions...

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen The Redeemer's Song - Keith Green As this has recently been done on NSC If you could choose 1 song to be played at your funeral....... everybody else will have their answer ready, I guess. I struggled with this. Allegedly the most popular song played at funerals (if...

Marry You by Bruno Mars If, hypothetically I was to marry again today, then I guess it would have to be Marry You by Bruno Mars. This doesn’t state that we need to choose the slow embarrassing song. So nothing deep there, the song just does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s sentimental but...

So What by Miles Davis In the same way I struggled to be specific about music for feeling angry and happy, I certainly can’t claim particular music for sadness. So instead I’ll go for pensive and wistful. In which case, then my number one choice for p&w is the classic jazz album, A Kind of...

U Can't Touch This - Glee Cast Version This one minute nine seconds of happiness is the main justification I can see for Glee (that and Artie’s other great moment The Safety Dance flash mob in a mall) and a good one to slot in here. MC Hammer’s original is probably a bit of a joke now...

Welcome to the Jungle by Guns N' Roses I don’t necessarily seek out a particular song when I’m angry but there are various musical moments where I can go to vent. One favourite has to be the first brilliant album by The Alarm – Declaration. There is no need singing a song when you can shout...

Lord Is It Mine by Supertramp My favourite album always has been (well since I can recall having the concept of a favourite album) Breakfast in America by Supertramp. It’s come through all the formats over the decades. A bootlegged TDK C60 off a friend at a school with an unfortunate...

Anything by Tangerine Dream! Unlike their teutonic cousins Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream don’t get much airplay. It could be because their music has no words, or it could be because…well I’ll say it before anyone else does, their music sort of all sounds the same. But then that’s never stopped...

Can't take my eyes off you by Andy Williams Whether it was Radio Two, Radio 5 Live , Radio 6 Music or Radio 4 there were a number of songs that repeated a few weeks back on a specific day. Maybe not the day before or the one before. But that day as we mourned the passing of another great...

I Just Called To Say I Love You by Stevie Wonder Dear Stevie, I’m so sorry – I don’t want to hate one of your songs. It’s just turned out that way. You came along one summer and took over our radios. Day after day after day. It all started off well. After all you were Mr Wonder – you’d...

With a little help from my friends by The Beatles So how does it describe me? It's all about gettng by, in fact doing more than getting by. Oh, and my singing's not too hot. What would you do if I sang out of tune, Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a...

Ernie (the fastest milkman in the west) by Benny Hill I actually love this song. I can play it time and time again, such that I surprise myself. *It's out of tune and the backing track is annoying but there are so many gems in the lyrics that all this can be forgiven! Oh, the pasteurised joke...

Awaken by Yes Oh Yes. How many guilty pleasures can we unwrap with that band? For those too young to remember the heady self indulgent musical days of the ’70s, Yes were a super group only happy if a song was more than 10 minutes long, had several modulations and encompassed at least five...

Stan by Eminem I played The Marshal Mathers LP once. Ugh. I tried it again. Even more ugh. I basically didn’t like him and everything he sang about. I think it’s fair to say that’s an unhealthy obsession with your mother you’ve got there. Only one song somehow emerged for me although not...