I'd have to ask the same question. Just because he played alternative rock 'music' and went insane doesn't make him Brian Wilson. It was Gilmour's presence that really made Pink Floyd possibly the greatest band ever. His musical and song-writing skills are vastly superior to anything Barret ever cranked out on his mother's washboard

Gilmour is a fantastic guitarist, but I am with American on this. Waters songwriting (especially his lyrics) are vastly superior to anything Gilmour has done.

Best intro Alternative Ulster by Stiff Little Fingers, Hanging Around by The Stranglers (Hammond Organ Flops!) or of course anything by Pearl Jam.

Oh and just to add another Hammond Organ song, Riders on the Storm by The Doors.

Another list for you.

The Mercury Prize nominees announced today. So who has got any of these?

Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Ballad Of The Broken Seas

Editors - The Back Room

Guillemots - Through The Windowpane

Richard Hawley - Coles Corner

Hot Chip - The Warning

Girls Aloud - Black Holes And Revelations

Zoe Rahman - Melting Pot

Lou Rhodes - Beloved One

Scritti Politti - White Bread, Black Beer

Sway - This Is My Demo

Thom Yorke - The Eraser

Pearl Jam released 10 in 1991 and it became one of the best selling albums of all time.

They followed this up with Vs, Vitalogy and No Code. All reached number 1 in the US. in fact Vs sold an incredible 1 million copies in its first week of sale.

Oh by the way I am not doubting Nirvanas commericial success, or the influence they had and continue to have. Just their place in the early Seattle scene.

Hotter still tomorrow.

93 degrees is forecast.

Pompous overblown read. Like the following:

Nevermind (pardon the pun) that Ten came out 6 months earlier and would still have been successful even had Nevermind not been released...

True American.

The "Seattle Scene" started with a band called Green River, who morphed into Mother Love Bone who then became Pearl Jam. Other notables around at the time were Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Mudhoney.

Nirvana arrived very late onto an already burgeoning scene. It is a complete myth that they were early leading lights.

According to todays Sunday Telegraph Lord Stevens has named five clubs who are at the centre of his bung report.

The clubs are Man Utd, Newcastle, Middlesborough, Portsmouth and Bolton.

Investigations are continuing into 320 transfers conducted by Premiership clubs between Jan 2004 and Jan 2006.

BURNLEY 25,000

Plus 15,000 on a waiting list.

Highs, the rejuvenation of some old dogs in Figo, Zidane showing youngsters like Rooney and C Ronaldo how the game should be played.

Good idea. Teach them how to headbut.

Fardo 7

Au unimpressive 1-0 victory to England.

True Bryan.

But he was set up for life already. He hardly needs the pay-off from Newcastle or in fact another job.

Isn't life wonderful!

Black Velvet, isn't that Guinness and Champagne or to a poor man Guinness and Cider? Guinness and black was quite popular at one time. It used to leave a purple splodge in the head (and round the mouth!)

Also a few years ago I remember people drinking pints of Golden. Half lager and half bitter. Does anyone still drink that?

Recently had a pint (or two) of this stuff....

in the Boatyard pub, & i`ve got to say it`s one of the best beers i`ve ever tasted.

Unfortunately it`s a seasonal beer, so it only appears in the springtime (or so i was told), but if any of you beer (not lager) lovers get the chance to sample this wonderful beer.......DO IT!!

Not far from the Boatyard you will find The Royal Oak at Riley Green. They serve a fine pint of Thwaites as well.

Talking of heresy, SS, you're from the land of 3Bs ! Been on a few brewery tours including, Tuborg, Carlsberg, Guinness, Matthew Brown, Amstel and Batemans (not Blackburn's Star brewery though) but the one at Feniscowles, with its Doff Cocker, Tacklers Tipple, Knocker Up etc topped the lot.

Three B's is a lovely pint. Enjoyed it many a time.

Although we are not going to get a decent pint of ale at Ewood, Thwaites do a good job at places like Old Trafford as I find out when I went to the cricket last year.

Lets just hope they get good staff in to serve the thirsty hordes.

I might well have misread the section on sponsorship, but it reads to me that Thwaites supply Blackpool and Burnley with beer.

On the other hand, wouldn't it be ironic if Burnley could not get a firm from their town to sponsor them?

It might be heresy but a nice pint of Moorhouses Pendle Witch pre-match would go down very well.

I think it was Jansen who was half out the door FLB.

He was on his way to Rangers when Souness arrived. Souey insisted he stayed put.

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Thwaites ale is pretty decent. Don't know anything about the lager though. Afterall, its for girls.

You can have the best camera on the market, but to achieve photographs of this quality you need talent. And dillo you have bucketloads of it.

You have an eye for everything that makes a good photograph. Composition (use of the rule of thirds), perspective, use of light and shade, a vocal point, in fact the lot.

Well done.

Have you had any formal training?

Has anyone else had a recorded message at home from Mark Hughes reminding them of the season ticket offer? I was in London yesterday and it threw my wife for a while! It did, however, allow her to write me a note saying Mark rang while I was out!

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I got the same call 30 minutes ago.

Recorded messsage with press button 7 to speak directly to the ticket office to renew your ticket now.

Portsmouth 1-1 Rovers

Pedersen

A share of the points in a hard fought game.

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That can't be right. If Morten scores we always win.

That is one of the funniest articles I have read in ages.

So am I right in thinking, if we get 4th and Arse win the CL we do not get in the BIG dance, we only get EUFA.

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Correct.

What I want to know though, is should every hand ball during a game be punished by a yellow card?

Simple yes or no will do.

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The really annoying thing about it was later in the game Viduka commited a blatant hand ball, the ref gave us a freekick but no yellow card for Viduka.

Consistency?

According to reports in this mornings paper Saunders is in the hunt for the job at Walsall and Souness is quoted elswhere as saying he would like one last crack in management.

Hmmmmm.