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What must surely be the greatest song whose storyline takes place on a river Ol' Neil's finest moment? "Cortez The Killer" runs it close but I think "Powderfinger" edges it.

Remember this lot as a shameless rip-off of Bow Wow Wow.... but listening for the first time in 40 years it was more entertaining than I expected -Tenpole Tudor-ish pop nonsense

Astonishingly absent so far

A paean to the River Charles in Boston - the singer tells of strolling its banks, “along with lovers, buggers, and thieves”

Okay, this is a really nice one The song title "Rheinita" fuses Klaus Dinger's "two great loves – the river Rhein, which flows through Düsseldorf, and Anita Heedman, his girlfriend who had moved to Norway in 1971." Released as a single. this was big hit in West Germany, despite being an...

While awaiting adjudication on the issue of creeks

About a river that runs right through Sheffield, partially underground some of the way I think - Jarvis Cocker voyaged down it once on some kind of raft

Do creeks count?

Two for the price of one

How wide open with possibilities the music felt in '94 this was "jungle" but it doesn't sound anything like the received, history-sealed idea of jungle

nah m8, the Boom Shaka Mix all the way massive agrees 2 - that version was the 1 the pirates played

early '94 pirate fave... a track that would stop me dead in my tracks when it came on the radio

technically came out in '93 but this is a tune I associate with the first months back in London, January February March '94, seemed to be on the pirates constantly 94, although it has 93 in the title

My last year living in the UK* Finally made it north of the river... living in Belsize Park... in a flat with dodgy electricals ... listening to the pirates in the kitchen and getting the occasional electric shock Jungle wasn't the only thing happening - there was so much going on in London...

Journos would get sent on trips - the papers couldn't afford to fly people to America or Europe. They might run to a train ticket to another city in the UK, but usually the record company would cover that too. This was so normal and widespread, that in practice it had the opposite of a...

i took it to be a not entirely reverential honorific

probably okay since the cigs bit doesn't apply, nor the alcohol really either too late to change now anyway

Same with tea actually. It has to be nearly scalding. You want to feel like there's a bonfire in your chest. Tea is an odd substance because there's this very narrow band between 'perfect temperature' and then all of sudden it's just warm, which is too much of a preview of the abjectness of...