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J M Coetzee, Disgrace I think this must be one of the best novels written in the last dozen years.

Levi Strauss Blue Daniel Victor Feldman

Skinnay Ennis David Lean Emmanuel Kant

This problem is always so bad that I no longer try to use the site for half an hour or so after 10am GMT has passed. Noticed it was still OK at 10:10 this morning, so you're probably right about the effect of the US hour change.

Joe Mondragon Johnny Griffin Ethel Merman

Wendy Deng The Dong With the Luminous Nose Schnozzle Durante

Piggy Lord of the Flies Lord of the Rings

J.J.! (Mosaic Single)

Roy Hudd Hud Paul Newman

Ian Blair Blair Peach Peaches Geldof

Samantha Fox Rupert Murdoch The Dirty Digger

Hope the musical remedy works quickly, Tom! Now listening to Jazz Record Requests from BBC Radio 3 Now playing: "I Could Have Danced All Night" from Previn Plays My Fair Lady

Kinnocchio Geppetto Leon Petties

Hamilcar Motorhead Radiohead

(Night of) the Cookers Stovepipe Johnson Bear Grylls

Will Self Arthur Mee Mimi

Henry Ford Ford Prefect Mini Me

John Bird Walter Pigeon Thomas Love Peacock

Dodi Fayed Dodo Marmarosa Ken Dodd

I love Al and Zoot, but find their Hoagy Carmichael album limp. Fortunately, in its present incarnation on Lonehill it's paired with Either Way, which is a gas. (I have no objection to the singing of Cecil "Kid Haffey" Collier, by the way.) After Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain, it's generally recognized that Miles and Gil produced a clunker in Quiet Nights.

Little Red Riding Hood Red Buttons Greensleeves

Very interesting thread, MG, and I'll probably come back to it again as more things occur to me. IMHO 5 By Monk By 5 drags in comparison with the master's other Riverside albums. (The critics of Art Taylor on the board will probably point the finger at him.) In my youth it was put about that Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter as a very late album wasn't up to his usual standards, and I guess this is true. But in comparison with other artists, everything by Bird is touched with gold and I bought the CD recently and love it, not just for Bird, but for things like Roy Haynes' drumming, too.

archie and mehitabel Jezebel Stinkerbell

Alternative list: Alan Ganley, Ronnie Stephenson, Bill Eyden, Bobby Orr, Phil Seaman

Netto Aldi Lidl (these are all people, aren't they?)