Don't look so forlorn Isabella, while a teardrop may fall, so many good songs will comfort you, and everyone else. Thanks too to Mr R....

Deborah Conway was right when she declared "three deep breaths, I'm still alive and brilliant". And that was before she heard the songs...

This is no place for the faint-hearted. Songs where all emotions are heightened; where love is grander than ever, where the wages of sin...

Deep in summer it's Autumn who come through the middle of this playlist with some cooling breeze which may or may not be suitable for...

If you start with Worldwide Pussy you best hope you can come home to someone saying May Your Kindness Remain. Or if you begin with Miss...

Sing a song to Elvis Presley, birthday boy. Some of his songs and some songs written about him. Not always the paths well trod either....

A track from each of the albums which made it to the list of the best of this year, 30 songs from 30 fabulous records. The full list,...

The real Top 50. Maybe the hits, maybe the personal quirks, definitely the songs I enjoyed playing this year, with this the 2nd batch...

The real Top 50. Maybe the hits, maybe the personal quirks, definitely the songs I enjoyed laying this year. There was one rule: only one...

At last, the good tunes, the best moments, the hot-right-then-and-right-now selections. Spicy! CLICK TO LISTEN #Spotify

In the middle is a sea of yachts - cruising - but fore and aft this punches above its weight. CLICK TO LISTEN #Spotify

Get the word on some excellent music, old and new, jerky and smooth. Share the love. Ride the Styx! No, not the river; better. CLICK TO...

The good word, the good oil, the truth! Boz begins and ends it but between come joy, sins, tribulations, unholy vengeance and dancing....

Wanna play? Come out and see, beginning and ending with hot Oils but taking serious diversions along the way through Stereolab, Can,...

Separated at birth or separated by decades. The same song but a different approach; the same song but a different voice; two for the...

While Lou Rawls has the confidence - or is it fear masked by fake certainty? - the rest of us are more like Machinations. So cover your...

From the ice age to the dole age, there is but one concern: how do you get from Stephen Patrick Morrissey to George FitzGerald? C'est...

The very good, the really good and the odd-but-hey-isn't-that-good come out of the woodwork when you hit play. CLICK TO LISTEN #Spotify

This will straighten your mood inside, balance the fools outside and overcome the bastards above. Take it three times daily and see me in...

Hal David said that a house is not a home when there's no one there to hold you tight, and no one there you can kiss goodnight. Can these...