I'm a great admirer of Rufus, but there's a lot of truth to your post. He's always been terrifically self-indulgent, but the distinct lack of melody and hook to a lot of the songs on All Days Are Nights makes that quality quite a hindrance — for the first time, I think.

A-, my arse
It's been a case of diminishing returns since You Are the Quarry, unfortunately. This album is tuneless, messy, leaden, repetitive, rehashed… It's really quite awful. At least Ringleader of the Tormentors had great songs like "Life Is a Pigsty", "Dear God Please Help Me" and "In the Future When All's Well"…

Not a fan of Orlando?

Fashionably late
1989: McCarthy - The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth
1990: Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
1991: Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
1992: Morrissey - Your Arsenal
1993: Suede - Suede
1994: Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
1995: Pulp - Different Class
1996: Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
1997: Orlando…

So-so
I'm really not into any of this week's artists, excluding perhaps Mel Torme ("Right Now" is undoubtedly one of the most stylish, sexy songs of the '60s, and a pox upon The Pussycat Dolls for their heinous cover). For purely selfish reasons, I would have rather liked to see you write about Martha & the Vandellas,…

Strip it down
Really disappointed you didn't cover the Manics, considering they're, well, one of the best bands ever. Magazine, too. Still, kudos for writing something on The Magnetic Fields. Merritt really restored my faith in inventive and subversive American music, that people like the dire M Ward went some way…

Well, no, of course I don't - and couldn't - apply it to every band, I just find it's very apparent with some (It's the reason I abhor Radiohead, think "Wonderwall" is the 9/11 of songwriting, and would rather get a Prince Albert than listen to Damien Rice). I mean, Brighter's "Chistmas" is one of my favourite songs…

Nice article, Jason
I'm a big Sarah Records fan (I own, including digital, everything that was released on the label), but I've always felt The Field Mice pale in comparison to the label's three big hitters of Heavenly, Brighter, and Blueboy. In fact, it's because they were so earnest, the precise thing you praised…

M.I.A.
Klaus Nomi
Kristeen Young
Laurie Anderson
Leadbelly
Leatherface
The Long Blondes
Longpigs
Los de Abajo

Yeah, I rule.

uh oh
There's some arrangements Jonathan Coulton doesn't like on Want One. Oh dear, Rufus.

Hm
None of them taste like Robitussin? I'm very disappointed.

Hmm
No Jack, Jacques, Jacques Brel, Jackie Wilson, James Dean Bradfield, James… Yet you have some of that little oik Jamie T in your library. You've got a lot to learn about music that isn't American, Noel. In fact, it's probably something that can't be learned from that side of the pond. I'm already dreading your…

I'm calling social services
Who keeps saying everything tastes like medecine amd such? Just because your mom had Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy doesn't mean things either taste like Robitussin or conditioner.

Other omissions
Aside from you severely underrating the best band mentioned above (The Hidden Cameras) and the quite frankly embarrassing lack of Human League and Heaven 17, you're also missing:

I almost saved last week's episode (with him topless in the jacuzzi) for "a later date", but the sheer pathetic nature of it made me get sick down my own trousers.

Great bad film
I rented it on DVD a few months ago and I was literally crying with laughter it was so bad. I haven't laughed as much since, so it was supremely enjoyable in that respect.

I won't, toots. Don't you worry your pretty little head. Are you sure you're not just on your period, though?

Dear lord…
This is like one of that tedious hack Christian Lander's wet dreams. I'm betting it gets worse.

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Apparently, misandry is totally cool. Who'da thunk it?