BD - Is does one good to listen to other types of music. Indeed, any appreciation of Folk & Blues must not only be aware of the roots & branches of popular music, but entirely passionate on how such things operate in terms of cultural process. The Fall rarely touch upon such idioms as Blues and Folk (though they did once cover Pinball Machine and MES requested of the band something vaguely Dylanish when they went into the studio (in Iceland) to record Iceland for Hex in 1981) but their music is just as rooted as any other and with 35 years of clues, riddles, shards & references the deciphering of which would keep a team of folklorists & ethnographers busy for another 35.

BC - that would be a top thread; given the subjective nature of the experience it would have to be wholly anecdotal. Like the time when on the opening night of the Glastonbury Festivlal in 1984, I was so stoned I dropped my specs into a toilet trench. The retrieval, though succesful, was so traumatic that it resulted in three days of constipation which was eventually relieved under a bush somewhere near Avebury midst birdsong, hawthorn leaves, sunshine, megaliths, dancing skyclad hippys and earthly leyline energies that connected me to the eternal via big block of Gold Seal Charas which proved the kost divine laxative imaginable. Transcendental Bowel Evacuation in a veritable G-spot tornado that outlasted all temporal considerations. Definitely in my top 5, but maybe not my #1 Number One...