Hi again,

I'll find Waiting for Herb and have a listen.

I buy the CD's and then copy them onto my PC through Windows Media, and then I put them on my USB stick which I use in the car stereo and I also put them on my Walkman which I listen to at work - because I work in a quiet office with no customers to distract me. That means I'm not fishing the CD's out to listen to them but I can find them if I need them for my little stereo in my workroom at home.

Yes, it's a good problem. Over the years I've listened here and there to The Pogues music, but not in a concentrated way. They were probably the laughingstock of the punk movement because they actually knew how to play instruments, and the more I listen to them now, the more I appreciate that fact, and the clever ways they have reworked the old tunes.

I used to listen to punk music when the Sex Pistols were in their heyday back in the 70's so I appreciate their style of music but most of them weren't musical geniuses because I think it was the message which was more important than the technical musical ability.

I think I was wrong about which album the Yankee Doodle tune was on. In the past few days I've also listened to If I Should Fall From Grace With God, and Red Roses for Me, so it might have been on one of those. I just know that I started hearing Yankee Doodle in my head, so one of the tunes reminded me of it.

Helen