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I love Grand Funk but my favourite track is "Sin's a good man's brother"
It's so hard to pick a favourite band, let alone one track by them, at least, for me it is.
I will go for "Burning the hard city" by Californian instrumental rock band Djam Karet, from the album of the same name. The band's two guitarists cram riff after riff into the disc, but the band create many and varied moods and atmospheres using synths and other electronics. The bass playing is monstrous, sinuous and rumbling yet clever and inventive and very much to the fore.
The guitarists crank out solo after solo but the solos complement the tracks and aren't gratuitous. The use of bends and vibrato is astonishing, and it isn't all fast playing, there is a lot of space between the notes at times, with great use of sustain.
The whole album is a beast and stirs up the emotions. Magnificent, in my humble opinion.
My runners up are:
It Bites - Once around the world Fates Warning - And yet it moves Ozric Tentacles - Saucers Black Sabbath - Into the void Kaki King - Final state
I mainly like instrumental music but I do also like clever wordsmiths like Pink Floyd, Asian Dub Foundation, Primus and Rush.
I also like riff based music, so by bands like Fu Manchu, Testament and Black Sabbath.
Another thing which I love is bands who create music with multiple, complementary layers, rather than just one dominant instrument with all the others playing second fiddle, as it were. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon achieves that and a lot of Fates Warning's tracks have multiple, simultaneous guitar parts, as many as five, some of them very simple, which combine to create a glorious whole.
I love bands which can create an atmosphere or mood, like The Black Dog (ambient), Tangerine Dream (electronic - the start of their album Rubycon is breathtaking, otherworldly stuff) or rock (Djam Karet - there is so much emotion in albums like Burning the hard city).
That said, I also live a catchy, original tune with quirky, amusing lyrics and It Bites have knocked out loads of songs like that.
What I don't like is artists who slavishly copy what has gone before and who don't offer anything original.
Finally, as someone who also plays an instrument, I'm a fan of musicians who come up with inspirational new techniques and ways of playing, eg Becky Langan and Kaki King (acoustic guitar) and the two guitarists in Animals as Leaders (on their 8 string guitars, they can switch between playing bass and lead lines).
I could easily do 20 minutes on how to create and maintain a wildflower meadow but I'd only need the first ten minutes. They'd be sound asleep after the first half of my slot.
I'm on holiday in southern Crete and was walking past what was clearly a locals' bar when I espied a telly high up in one corner, its screen filled with the tell-tale bright green grass of - yes - a football match.
All the occupants - and they ranged from about 10 to over 80 - were glued to the screen; it was Villa against Olympiakos.
Suddenly, Olympiakos score and there is uproar, but wait, the goal looks suspiciously like it's offside. The inevitable VAR check follows, then cue pandemonium: the goal stands! 0-1.
We're looking through the window at this moment of pure joy - a nerdy-looking kid at the front of the assembled throng is on his feet and bouncing around waving his arms - when a middle aged woman walks up to us and peers through the window to try to make sense of the cheering and scenes of jubilation.
She only pauses for a second, then walks on past, silently.
Mrs R from Afar turns to me and says: "She was wearing an AEK Athens jacket".
Incredibly emotional with the result tonight to end the season. I’m so sorry for all the heartache we’ve all been through this season, hopefully in time all that’s left is a memory we’ll talk about with a smile knowing what we lived through. Congratulations to all our players… pic.twitter.com/kOEzxyVQpJ
You beat me to it. I think it should be shared, I think they were all great and I can't remember the last game when everyone played at such a high level and as such a cohesive unit.
The board deserves a lot of credit for bringing him in, although I'll willingly accept that they've made lots of mistakes in the past.
I think I heard it on Sky but apparently, Marti handles the attacking side of the coaching and Xavier Calm the defensive bit. Hats off to Mr Calm too, then - and the other coaches - we are so much more solid defensively now, mercifully.
I was surprised how easy it was for Chair to cut inside when he scored our first.
Like most if not all of you, I should imagine, I knew he was likely to do it but it looked to me as if the Leeds players either hadn't been told he likes to do that or had ignored their coaches' warnings about it.
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