Well this last week has been a bit extraordinary - if we hadn't been exchanging views and feelings about what's happened, we'd have been a pretty peculiar lot.

And I think some of the stuff that's been in the discussion threads this week have been a lot more thoughtful and thought-provoking than you get in most of the mass media. I think I've learnt far more about what it feels like to be an American at this time than I ever would from the TV or papers.

Generally speaking I have always found that if you turn your back for a bit when the Mudcat seems overwhelmed with non-music discussions, by the time you turn back kit's all music. That will happen again in time - but these are odd times.

And aside from the discussion the last week has thrown up some unique music related threads - see the one Song for NYC Firefighters... especially. And also New Songs for 9-11-01

Most music threads are quite short, because they are people asking for words or information, and someone normally come sup with that pretty quickly. Only sometimes do they turn into discussions about the background of the song or the meaning and so forth, and they are the best threads of all maybe.

If you count the number of threads you normally find that music related ones are in a majority. But they intend to be down the bottom of the page, because people don't use them in the same way they do discussion threads and so forth. But they are still here, and I've started a good few even this week.