Happy new year, and thanks for your suggestions over the holiday, when I would have quite understood if you'd had something else you'd have rather been doing. Sorry that the blog shut down to new entries before the extended deadline - I forgot about the automatic guillotine that applies to all Guardian blogs.
What time is it? It's B-list time! John Barry (Midnight Cowboy), the Strokes (12:51), Michelle Shocked (5am in Amsterdam), Rialto (Monday Morning 5:19), Cornershop (6am Jullander Shere), Mamas & the Papas (Twelve Thirty: Young Girls are Coming to the Canyon), Danny O'Keefe (3:10 Smokey Thursday), Cheap Trick (Clock Strikes Ten), the Divine Comedy (Ten Seconds to Midnight) and Dukes of Stratosphear (25 O'Clock).
Inspired by the new year mood of fresh starts and stiffened resolve, this week's theme is guilt, apology and regret. What I'm after is songs about people who feel bad about things they've done (or actively refuse to feel bad about them); people who wish they'd acted differently; people who want to make amends. I don't mean objective culpability: Stagger Lee is obviously guilty but he doesn't feel guilty. I suspect the word sorry will appear quite a lot. I hope this is clear - if there's any confusion, I'll be around to clarify. Right now I can't think of any relevant previous inclusions apart from Josef K's Sorry for Laughing but then it's the kind of theme that requires thought rather than a quick keyword search.
Avoid recommending anything you'll regret by consulting the Readers recommend archive and A-Z. Deadline is midday on Monday.
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