'Pretty male, pretty guitar-based, pretty dated. Ah well'.

1. Johnny Cash - The Mercy Seat (though the first half of American III is all pretty mindblowing)
http://www.last.fm/music/Johnny+Cash/_/The+Mercy+Seat

2. Maxïmo Park - Graffiti (as I mentioned before, there is no better hoovering music, though I'm banking that there's no better coconut-cracking music either)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Po_g5KSoqYM

3. Dylan - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) from Live At Budokan (because life without Dylan is no life at all)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OP8KiXhMvUQ

4. The Maytals - Pressure Drop (because after a few weeks you'd need reminding that you're in paradise)
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Maytals

5. Jimmy Cliff - Sitting in Limbo (because it's the next track after Pressure Drop on the Harder They Come soundtrack, and listening to it reminds me that I couldn't leave it behind)
http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Cliff/_/Sitting+In+Limbo

6. Otis Redding - A Change Is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke's original is unimproveable, right? Nah. Going against all the cover version rules, Otis sticks pretty much to the same arrangement, and does to it what Usain Bolt did to running fast)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=S2V3REseFwE

7. Levon Helm - Wide River To Cross (is it because I know it's Levon, post-Band, post-throat cancer for fuck's sake- anyway, whether contexts matters or no I get blown away every time by this. Also 'The Mountain' on the same album, 'Dirt Farmer', is something special)
http://www.last.fm/music/Levon+Helm/_/Wide+River+To+Cross

This person is another musician

1. Camille - Gospel with no lord
http://www.last.fm/music/Camille/_/Gospel+With+No+Lord

2. Bjork - Hunter
http://www.last.fm/music/Bj%C3%B6rk/_/Hunter

3. Benjamin Britten - Piano Concerto in D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd4mcpbi9wI (4th mvmt only)

4. Miles Davis - So what
http://www.last.fm/music/Miles+Davis/_/So+What

5. Patti Smith - cover of Paul simon's 'boy in the bubble'
http://www.last.fm/music/Patti+Smith/_/The+Boy+In+The+Bubble

6.Bach - Sarabande (from a keyboard partita, can't remember which key or number)
[They can't remember, so I'm going to give you this one: ]http://www.last.fm/music/Johann+Sebastian+Bach/_/Sarabande

7. Bob Dylan - Everything is Broken
http://www.last.fm/music/Bob+Dylan/_/Everything+Is+Broken

THIS person is serious(ly obscure)

1. Acoustic Ladyland - Trial and Error
http://www.last.fm/music/Acoustic+Ladyland/_/Trial+And+Error

2. Beethoven - Symphony 4 first movement
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VJXAVf_FdTU

3. Eric Whitacre - Sleep
(I'd probably only be able to listen to it once)

4. Nick Cave - Into my arms
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8owifmb8n2s

5. Strauss - Alpinsinfonie

6. Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Seven Days of Falling
http://www.last.fm/music/Esbj%C3%B6rn+Svensson+Trio/_/Seven+Days+Of+Falling

7. Blink - Berceuse de Jeanne

8. Sonny Rollins - Strode Rode
http://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Rollins/_/Strode+Rode

Person Francaise peut-etre

1. Pulp - 'Razzmatazz'
http://www.last.fm/music/Pulp/_/Razzmatazz

2. Leonard Cohen - 'Ain't No Cure For Love'
http://www.last.fm/music/Leonard+Cohen/_/Ain%27t+No+Cure+for+Love

3. Tchaikovsky- 'Marche Slave'
http://www.last.fm/music/Pyotr+Ilyich+Tchaikovsky/_/Marche+slave%2C+op.+31

4. Bonnie Tyler- 'Holding Out For A Hero'
http://www.last.fm/music/Bonnie+Tyler/_/Holding+Out+for+a+Hero

5. Tammy Wynette - ''Til I Can Make It On My Own'
(but I am very tempted by 'I Still Believe In Fairy-Tales' and ''Til I Get It Right'... my door to love/ has opened out/ more times than in,/ but I'm either fool/ or wise enough/ to open it again... perfect country lyrics.)
http://www.last.fm/music/Tammy+Wynette/_/%27Til+I+Can+Make+It+On+My+Own

6. George Michael - 'Careless Whisper'
http://www.last.fm/music/George+Michael/_/Careless+Whisper

7. Kris Kristofferson - 'Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)'
http://www.last.fm/music/Kris+Kristofferson/_/Loving+Her+Was+Easier+%28Than+Anything+I%27ll+Ever+Do+Again%29

8. Georges Brassens ' - Les Copains d'Abord'
http://www.last.fm/music/Georges+Brassens/Les+Copains+d%27abord

Person number BLACK

1. New Order - True Faith
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=og1HAkjOuL0

2. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
http://www.last.fm/music/Talking+Heads/_/Life+During+Wartime

3. Marillion - Warm Wet Circles
http://www.last.fm/music/Marillion/_/Warm+Wet+Circles

4. Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
http://www.last.fm/music/Nine+Inch+Nails/_/The+Fragile

5. The Cure - Just Like Heaven
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Cure/_/Just+Like+Heaven

6. REM - Losing My Religion
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=M7vs21ZKrKM

7. Depeche Mode - In Your Room (single version)
http://www.last.fm/music/Depeche+Mode/_/In+Your+Room

Two people who like 'classical' more than 'popular' music

1. Schubert: Die Taubenpost (last song he wrote)
2. Monteverdi: madrigal, 'Zefiro torno'
3. Prospero's last speech ('Our revels now are ended') from The Tempest, read by Sir John Gielgud
4.Purcell: Evening Hymn
5. Mozart: Clarinet Quintet
6. Beethoven: Prisoners' Chorus from Fidelio
7. Beatles: Good Day, Sunshine
8. Icelandic folksong: A Sprengisandur


1.Monteverdi -Beatus Vir
2. Fats Waller - Your feets too big
3.Tippett - Concerto for double String orchestra
4. R Strauss - Morgenlied
5. Byrd - 5 part Mass
6. Milhaud - le Boeuf sur le Toit
7. Purcell - Sweeter than Roses

Person Number Three

1. Beatles - 'A Day in the life' [anthology 2 version]
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gZez_k4vAzU

2 Syd Barrett - 'Baby Lemonade'
weirdest and best opening lyrics to any song
http://www.last.fm/music/Syd+Barrett/_/Baby+Lemonade

3. Scott Walker - 'Farmer in the City'
from the most bizarre album ever made 'Tilt'
http://www.last.fm/music/Scott+Walker/_/Farmer+in+the+City

4. Radiohead - 'Everything in its Right Place'
http://www.last.fm/music/Radiohead/_/Everything+in+Its+Right+Place

5.Tommy Johnson - 'Cool Drink of Water Blues'
if only for the line 'I asked for water, she gave me gasoline'
http://www.last.fm/music/Tommy+Johnson/_/Cool+Drink+of+Water+Blues

6. Robert Johnson - 'Last Fair Deal Gone Down'
thinking about number
http://www.last.fm/music/Robert+Johnson/_/Last+Fair+Deal+Gone+Down

7.' I call my baby pussycat' by Funkadelic
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9ScYtbMEGHw

or 'man in the long black coat' by Bob Dylan or possibly 'station to station' by Bowie or (stop it now. Ed)