On last week's blog, Dr Maybe suggested we look for the worst duets ever but it looked like some readers had beaten him to it. Bowie and Jagger? Paul Young and Zucchero? Good grief. And yet even the suggestions I fiercely reject make me marvel at the range of music that makes different people happy. Much as I enjoy being rude about music I dislike, I would find this column very boring if we all agreed. So thanks for all your suggestions.
Best discoveries: Bobbie Gentry & Glen Campbell's Mornin' Glory and George Jones & Melba Montgomery's We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds. Excluded because there was too much country-influenced indie stuff: Lanegan and Harvey's Come to Me, Belle & Sebastian's Lazy Line Painter Jane, the Tindersticks' Travelling Light. Excluded because I couldn't fill the list with rap and R&B: OutKast & Kelis, Public Enemy & Anthrax, Brandy & Monica. Excluded because I couldn't have two Nancy & Lee songs: Sand.
A couple of people suggested foreign language songs as a future theme. I'm hesitant because I don't want to ghettoise non-anglophone music - we've already had songs by Jorge Ben, Manu Chao, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Kraftwerk and Antonio Carlos Jobim, to name a few. I'd like to keep it that way.
To mark the announcement of the Turner Prize winner, I want to playlist songs about visual art and photography: anything about the process of making images or viewing them, including songs inspired by famous artists. Unlike the Turner Prize committee, I'm excluding film, because we've already covered that. Also, we've already had Jonathan Richman/John Cale's Pablo Picasso, but I think that's it. This could be quite a tough topic. Let's see how we get on. I promise an easy one next week.
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