.... Are Brilliant

With the girls away I have been staying up late, not washing, eating irregularly and badly (by which I mean both poor nutrition and bad technique ie spillage) and listening to music whilst drinking beer. The following are brilliant:
Rilo Kiley (actually they are bloody brilliant)
City Boy (forget their only hit single the poppy 5705 and listen to the albums - now on iTunes)
MGMT (this is what I used to term 'when you're pissed music' - try it)
A confession of a guilty pleasure - Randy Edelman, but only Uptown Uptempo Woman. Cracking stuff.
Mott the Hoople.
Searching4Evidence (because the singer is big Willie's step-nephew)
Crime of the Century by Supertramp - this was our favourite 'when you're pissed music' when I was a juvenile student. Actually that may not be true because ...
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - the last genuine Genesis album ie with Peter Gabriel on it. A double album with the requisite three sides of brilliance and a final side of wash-up. This analysis works for most good double albums in history. All sweeping generalisations are inaccurate apart from this one.
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd but also the Scissor Sisters cover of it. Cover versions of great songs usually piss me off (Madonna - American Pie - what were you thinking?) but this one is so different it works.

And loads of other stuff. That's all folks.