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Voted. A real tough choice with so many different styles this month. Plaudits to you all

The deep down and dirty psychobilly fruitcakes The Cramps.

Anyway, following on from Confusion.... What's Going On - Marvin Gaye

I did because I'm clumsy then did a quick edit. Didn't want people to think I was having some weird flashback to nights out 30 years ago.

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers

I Shot the Sheriff - Bob Marley

Loaded - Primal Scream

Rise - Public Image Limited

Inside - Stiltskin

Trapped (Colonel Abrams)

Heart of Glass (Blondie)

Roger that (fnarr), just looking forward to your last minute entry (fnarr, fnarr) 🤪

Composition Challenge calling Lurks, are you receiving me, over?

Ebony & Ivory (Macca/Wonder)

How Many More Times (Led Zeppelin)

Raspberry Beret (Prince)

Gimme Some Lovin' (Spencer Davis Group)

Another Girl Another Planet (The Only Ones)

Here's mine for this month. We did a tree a few months ago so I've looked beyond, far, far into the cosmos and......come up with a pretty straightforward tune with plenty of flange for that space-y effect. Hydrogen drums, Starforce bass (it's got planets and stars on the fretboard for inlays, I'm all themed up!), semi acoustic saz, a touch of electro saz and a smidge of keys. No vocals, that's Lurks' domain this month. And he's right about the bar being set high. I reckon I'm more limbo dancer than pole vaulter 😄 '

Love it. 'Rise' is one of my all-time favourites. And the album's final track 'Ease' has some great work from Baker and Vai. Lydon's a very divisive character but when he's in this mood the results are quality.

Damn. I was looking forward to the rest of it ☹️

Is this the start of a rap?

They had a picture of Zevon up in the window when I was there 20 odd years ago.

Hope there's an encore.

No, music lessons never helped in my experience. Junior school (70s) consisted of wrestling (not literally) with a recorder which I never got to grips with and being shunned from the choir due to having a voice like Johnny Rotten. We were put in a group called 'The Groaners' and spent choir practice time by doing drawings instead. Secondary school (80s) was no better. We did the usual 'this is a stave' , 'Mozart, what a guy' etc but my main memories are designing LP covers and sometimes bringing records in. One chap brought in a tape recording off of the TV of dismal, yanky, puppet nonsense Fraggle Rock that for some reason we listened to for 20 minutes before the teacher (who was a geography teacher) restored our sanity and whacked some Motown on. Typing that has just reminded me that for one whole year we never had a music teacher, it was always a PE teacher or whatever. Sometimes, we never had a teacher turn up at all. Dropped music after the third year when options came up because it was just a doss twice a week. The only instrument we got our hands on were glockenspiels for about four lessons very early on in the first year there. Can recall infuriating our teacher by our consistency in making the little wooden balls on the end of the beaters fall off and roll across the classroom. He was going apoplectic, how we laughed. Until we got to school the following morning to be told he'd died of a heart attack overnight. Sorry, Mr Edwards, though I think your heroic boozing and 2 lighters a day smoking habit may have been contributing factors as well.