Q hero James Blunt. He's the one on the left. Photograph: Murdo McLeod.
Q magazine is out of date, a true retirement home for music writers that never made it. It's the absolute lap dog of the major record companies - a music magazine for accountants and estate agents. Q is corporate. Gormless. Gutless. Always six months behind everything and full of lists, lists, lists. Well here's how others see Q magazine: a Q top 20 I'm sure they would be proud of.
1. Chris Martin and Robbie Williams 2. Anybody in U2 3. Annie Lennox 4. Anybody in Radiohead - or failing that, Coldplay again 5. Anybody in Keane 6. Anybody in a band who went to Oxford or Cambridge when any of us lot did 7. Pink Floyd (post-Syd era only) 8. Midge Ure 9. James Blunt 10. Damien Rice 11. Corinne Bailey Rae 12. Tasmin Archer 13. Dire Straits 14. The Police (both the Met and the mob Sting was in) 15. Every copycat Coldplay band we've shoved for EMI in recent years 16. INXS 17. Simple Minds 18. An Emotional Fish (the comeback) 19. Spice Girls 20. Dave Stewart
