I think His n' Hers is up there too. I've only ever heard parts of the earlier ones, but there are some great parts, like Countdown and Death II. Plus there are some even better songs from the His n' Hers era not on the albums- I'd definitely put Seconds, 59 Lyndhurst Grove, and Sheffield: Sex City up there with…

I love the Pulp tradition of putting a long semi-spoken song on each album (or two for This Is Hardcore). While this one is great, though, I'd put Wickerman and This is Hardcore ahead of it- I'd say they're both the best songs on their respective albums.

I remember seeing early live versions on Youtube and thinking it had instantly entered my top ten Radiohead songs. The muted version on the album didn't quite do it for me, though- I would have loved to hear a studio version of the crescendo. I've just seen there are decent recordings, though…

I had to give this episode the Gentleman's F. I don't have high expectations of Doctor Who, but it has produced a few great episodes and often manages to be entertaining. This, on the other hand, must be one of the worst episodes of… well, anything I've seen, really.

The name hyper-realism confuses the hell out of me, because the stuff it's applied to always looks far more like a computer game to me than anything real.

Youtube comments sections might be the worst part of the entire internet. Sure there are nastier, stupider and more disturbing things out there, but Youtube beats them all through sheer quantity.

Yeah, Black Lotus is powerful and all, but not very exciting and the art isn't great. Timetwister wins for me because it completely transforms the current game.

Damn, people, no love for Porcelina? It's a ridiculous, great song.

I have to say I appreciate the sequencing of today's Savage Love. After I spent the first letter curled up in a foetal ball whimpering, the period and the noseblood fetishists caused nary a wince.

How long had you been together before getting married? How was everything? And was it a sudden change when you got married, or something that developed gradually?

Damn, finally a Savage Love problem I have experience of, and it's HTHAH's. Oh, the glamour.

Absolutely. It might be nostalgia, I suppose, but I'd put Rome ahead of Game of Thrones. The political backstabbing (ha!) worked brilliantly, and any time not spent plotting was spent on the adventures of Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, which were endless fun. Game of Thrones obviously has a much bigger scope, but…

I get the general point, but that one guy didn't need a marketplace. He needed his former master to give him a salary, a place to live, and the right to stop working- whereas what Daeny decided sounded more like a one-year slave contract. I think Daeny missed out on a golden opportunity to invent the job.

So… uh… that old dude who was a tutor and then got reluctantly freed… was there a reason he couldn't just do exactly the same thing except for money? Have the people across the sea not invented the concept of jobs or something?

Yeah, that's the first one I thought of. A beautiful song, and it goes so well with the seediness of This Is Hardcore.

Yeah, they did suggest the shooting without actually showing it. Other baffling things I noticed: if part of the plan involved Wildlings climbing up the wall, why not just send them up a less busy part of it? They'd already done it once with a handful… a few hundred should be enough to run back along the wall and…

I'd hope they at least sent another raven saying 'uh, they're actually here now guys'.

I actually looked it up and it was You Only Live Twice- but with a lot more adaptation than I thought, which is impressive. I think it imprinted in my brain as an actual Bond theme because it sounds so perfectly Bondy.

Wow, that video was pretty wonderful. They look so young and unassuming and Stipe's presumably too nervous/awkward to be interviewed… and then they just belt out a stripped-down but perfect version of a great, great song- before it even has a name.

Ooooh, that's actually a great idea. They were certainly far more interesting than most of the Britpoppy competition- I mean, kicking off your album with a fantastic adaptation of The Spy Who Loved Me themetune? That's not a very indie thing to do…