Thanks for all your drug-related songs last week even if, as I explain in the column, I'm not convinced they were all about cocaine or heroin. Even confining my selections to ones that were categorically narcotic, I found narrowing the field very difficult. No room for the Rolling Stones (pretty much every note of Sticky Fingers), the Dandy Warhols, Curtis Mayfield, Joni Mitchell, John Prine, Mark Lanegan, Talk Talk, Suede and Wilco. I left out the Velvet Underground's Heroin because it was just too bloody obvious, and White Lines, Feel Good Hit of the Summer and Another Girl Another Planet because we've had them in previous playlists about advice, lists and space travel. Very disappointed that nobody nominated my favourite cocaine song, Debbie Harry's Rush Rush. If you don't mind dated synth sounds, give it a listen.
This week, I'm on the hunt for funny songs. There are few things more fatal to mirth than a song that strains to be humorous --whenever Mitch Benn plays one of his parodies on Radio 4, the nation stocks up on tumbleweed -- so help me find 10 songs that are genuinely amusing, from blatant spoofs and novelties to deadpan drolleries. Humour being more subjective than anything, we won't all agree but let's see what we come up with. Ho ho ho.
The archive of all things Readers recommendy can be found here. Deadline is midnight on Sunday.
