BillF

Or the woman in Camus' L'étranger who underlines in the magazine the radio programmes she intends to listen to in the coming week.

William Tell and apples Penn and Teller Gene Quill

I keep lists on the computer of albums I've found on Spotify that are worth listening to again. They're in alphabetical order of artist's surname and number about about 800 albums after almost two years' Spotify use. I add to them almost daily and delete the few which disappear from Spotify. It's intended as a guide to future listening, rather than a record of what's been listened to.

Some very interesting speculation in your second paragraph, Leeway. I'm not finished with Drabble yet. I see The Garrick Year sitting on my to-be-read pile :-)

Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds Gay Bikers on Acid Smokin' Toads

Simple Simon Archie Semple Joe Sample

Tinky Winky The Telletubbies Louis Hayes

Charles Fox Alun Morgan Raymond Horricks

Allen Lowe Willie Loman Timothy Bottoms

Elaine Stritch Roland Kirk Charlotte Church

Steve Swallow Jonathan Swift Slow Drag Pavageau

Bobby Shew Jack Slipper Meghan Trainor

Have just finished the Atwood and am now reading the Ford. They have little in common, other than havng been published in the past year and having considerable literary merit IMHO :-)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Kate Bush Bish

James Watt The Who Wen Jiabao

Mr Jones is writing some great stuff in the Guardian nowadays; e.g. yesterday on the duping of the working class by UKIP: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2014/nov/21/rochester-byelection-beliefs-of-ukip-voters

Benny Moten Motor Mouth Tito Gobbi

Mr Muscle Charles Atlas Gary Mapp

Turk Murphy Morph

Wide Boys Charlie Spivak Arthur English

Bobby Moses Moose the Mooch Minnie the Moocher

Muriel Spark Short Brothers The Seven Dwarfs

Chester Conklin Chester Drawers Sketchley Cleaners

1 Charlie Parker, "Warming Up a Riff" (Savoy) 2 Bud Powell, "Parisian Thoroughfare" (Blue Note) 3 Miles Davis Nonet, "Moon Dreams" 4 Woody Herman Second Herd, "Keeper of the Flame" (arr. Shorty Rogers) 5 Stan Kenton, "Stompin' at the Savoy" (1956 arr. Bill Holman) 6 Tadd Dameron, "Lady Bird" (with Fats Navarro, Wardell Gray and Allen Eager, Blue Note) 7 John Coltrane, "Exotica" (Roulette, 1960) 8 Lester Young, "These Foolish Things" (Aladdin, 1945)

James Prior Priam Will.i.am