Advent 2

Another piece of Spotify serendipity brought this one to my attention. I had been listening to Foy Vance and let it run over, at which point Spotify (eerily or handily depending on your mood at the time) takes over and plays you other things it thinks you will like. On ths occasion it was right. Continuing the Pink Floyd theme, here is the Milk Carton Kids' fine cover of Wish You Were Here. Don't they put you in mind of Simon and Garfunkel?

Can't promise such a seamless segue into tomorow's track I'm afraid. But then again, I've just had an idea.

Advent 1

How's this for clever. Our theme this year is cover versions and our first entry is a weird (and thereby brilliant) cover of the very song that was door 24 in last year's calendar - here are Scissor Sisters with their take on Comfortably Numb. Some serious Pink Floyd fans regard this version as tantamount to sacrilege but rumour has it that Floyd themselves approve, not that they really need the royalties. Tomorrow a variation on this theme.

Advent 24

I first heard this song on the Robin Valk rock show on BRMB - some of my contemporaries were John Peel listeners (Radio 1) but for me the favoured guide through music was Valk. For years I did not own a copy of the song other than the tape I took from Valk's show.

With all good wishes for Christmas I give you what I consider, after due deliberation, the greatest song of all time - Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. You can of course also make an argument for my old School song but that is not available on YouTube and would, I admit, be a parochial choice.

May your god go with you.