For the second Friday running, I am in travel hell. Currently blogging from a rail replacement coach as I struggle to get to London after an earlier derailment. I’ll resist the temptation to detail all the irritations the train company have been responsible for today and concentrate on wishing us to London before midnight. At least the time on the roads can be spent looking for a 60.

Via a number of bloggers, this particular version comes from Neil Fawcett. I’m tired so my three additions aren’t as ingenious as they might be…

“Copy the list on to your blog, put in bold the ones you have listened to (completely from begining to end) and then add three more albums that you think people should have heard before they turn into their parents – remember, it isn’t necessarily your most favourite albums but the ones you think people should listen to… and when we say listen we mean from track one through to the end…If you put a link to your follow-on post in the comments of the site where you found it, the chain will be trackable. You are also allowed to DELETE up to THREE albums on the existing list, if you feel a) that this is an album which should not reasonably be foisted upon anybody, or b) that one Radiohead album is quite enough for one lifetime, thank you.”

This is Hardcore – Pulp
Moon Safari – Air
Elastica – Elastica
Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols
OK Computer – Radiohead
The Kiss of Morning – Graham Coxon
Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars – David Bowie
The Wall – Pink Floyd
Setting Sons – The Jam
Train a Comin’ – Steve Earle
Come From the Shadows – Joan Baez
The River – Bruce Springsteen
The Very Best of Joan Armatrading – Joan Armatrading
What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain – Pavement
Apple Venus Vol. 1 – XTC
Marquee Moon – Televison
Daydream Nation – Sonic Youth
Jagged Little Pill – Alanis Morisette
Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
Leige and Leif – Fairport Convention
Afraid of Sunlight – Marillion
Dog Man Star – Suede
Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous – David Devant & His Spirit Wife
Out of the Blue – Electric Light Orchestra

I added the last three and would remove:
Metal Box – Public Image Ltd
The Joshua Tree – U2
Untitled fourth album – Led Zeppelin

Nick has been encouraging poetry on blogs today. Spurred on by hearing John Hegley at the Edinburgh Fringe, I have written something especially. This is inspired by the pain at the end of the ring finger on my right hand. It’s called

The pain at the end of the ring finger on my right hand

My finger is hurting
It started post-election
Maybe too much knocking up
Has caused the infection
Now I’ve got a precription

The doctor says I
Shouldn’t bite my nails
And the treatment entails
Taking one pill in
Six hour blocks of
Flucloxacillin

Returning to Edinburgh today. Haven’t decided what to see yet. The one thing I was most keen on – short films at Film Festival that included Blake’s Junction 7 – has sold out. I’ll mostly be blogging via email through my phone, so expect messages to appear several hours after they’re written. I’ll adjust the time stamps when I’m properly back online.