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The lack of love for the vocals of Fleetwood Mac saddens me.

Okay, singers. Purely on how much I like their voice/style, not necessarily in order of how much I appreciate the whole package... 1. Elvis Presley 2. Joni Mitchell 3. Rod Stewart 4. Christine McVie 5. Kate Bush 6. David Bowie 7. Debbie Harry 8. Johnny Cash 9. Stevie Nicks 10. Rachel Nagy

I set myself only one rule before doing this - I promised myself I wouldn't be asinine enough to put down characters from Family Guy, South Park, American Dad or The Simpsons. THEY ARE NOT FUNNY/GOOD AND HAVE NOT BEEN FOR SOME TIME. Ahem. 1. Bender Bending Rodriguez (Futurama) 2. Mark Lilly (Ugly Americans) 3. Harvey Birdman (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law) 4. Paddington Bear (Paddington Bear) 5. Daria Morgendorffer (Daria) 6. Penelope Pitstop (Wacky Races) 7. Pat (Postman Pat) 8. Earthworm Jim (Earthworm Jim) 9. The Joker (Batman: TAS) 10. Space Ghost (Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast) A lot of American shows in there, in fact all except two British characters which are on here for childhood nostalgia purposes. But fuck, I'd still rather watch Paddington Bear than South Park at the age of 23.

Pretty dire first-half performance. We looked nervous, and they didn't look at all comfortable on that plastic pitch. 1 or 2 nil at home, on grass, is achieveable on that evidence, but we need to pull our fingers out because that was not good enough by a long shot.

No, that's not true, that's a myth propogated by the die-hard fans who can't admit that he sucked cock for 20 years.

Neeson aside, that's a good list.

I don't think you can hold an artist's earlier work in a poor light because they later went on to produce some dross. If we did that, nobody would have had a good thing to say about Bob Dylan from 1977-2001. And countless other examples. Obviously, 'Raincoat' is diabolical, but let it go, man, you'll feel better. And Clapton's version is the definitive one, especially the live version that's always kicking about on Youtube. The man's a giant.

I love than LNK tried to defend Norton's honour with Red Dragon and The Italian Job. And Hulk. Bwahaha.

I'm going to go left-field, and select 2 artists who get a lot of stick and mockery due to their (admittedly poor) later output. However, the early stuff was brilliant, so you should check it out and ignore everything after about the mid-80s. ROD STEWART 1. True Blue The title track to perhaps his most complete album, Never a Dull Moment. It's vintage Faces-era Stewart, and it gets us off to a great start. 2. That's All Right One of the staples of Stewart's repetoire has been his covers of classic tracks, and although these days he tends to croon morosely through Paul Simon tracks, this is a bluesy riff on the song that made Elvis famous. Very fun. 3. Stone Cold Sober Rod gets all autobiographical on us with a tale of unwanted sobriety. As with most of his earlier solo work, the instrumentation is simple and well-played, it doesn't interfere with what everybody knows is the attraction - Stewart's voice, which is at its best here. Catchy, great hook, all in all a great little song. 4. The First Cut Is The Deepest Mournful and reflective now, with the mandolins making their obligatory 'Rod-does-sad-song' appearance. This time, he's covering Cat Stevens' seminal paean to lost love and 'getting over it,' and making a far better stab at it than Sheryl Crow managed some 20 years later. 5. Italian Girls Back to the rock'n'roll, and back to Never A Dull Moment for this one. This is notable for the mandolin making an appearance on an upbeat, pacy rock number, whereas he usually kept that one for the slower tracks. It's also got fantastic piano driving things along, and Rod sounds like he's having the time of his life. 6. Street Fighting Man A cover to finish off with, and a great reading of The Stones' coolest track. I really just like this one because it's far easier to imagine Rod, circa 1970, beating you up than Jagger with his camp strut. Yeah. ERIC CLAPTON (no, not Cream, solo Clapton) 1. Slunky What stands out about this track, the instrumental opening from his self-titled debut, is that the guitar is subordinate to the horn section for nearly half of the jam before it kicks in. Clapton has a well-deserved reputation as a virtuoso, but he's also a fine band leader and here he allows the rest of the ensemble to shine before taking centre stage for his debut work as a solo artist. Sets the stage perfectly. 2. Willie And The Hand Jive A surprisingly sedate cover of Johnny Otis' 1958 hit, which Otis always played at 400mph. Clapton's version is slow, coy and more than a little sardonic, but it's real fun nonetheless and showcases the great band he had with him in the mid-70s. 3. Cocaine One of his more recognised solo tracks, from the Slowhand album, this is a bluesy, distorted ode to the copious amounts of drugs that Clapton was taking at this point. Bizarrely, it's also something of a feel-good song, and once again he demonstrates his ability to drop the killer solo in without overpowering the rest of the track and making it all feel like framing for the virtuosity - take note, Stevie Vai. 4. Hound Dog You may have guessed I have a soft spot for classic rock covers - Clapton howls and wails his way through Elvis' classic, taking huge liberties with the lyrics and thus reinventing the track for his own unique voice. By this point, he was really developing into the consummate bluesman. 5. The Shape You're In From the Money And Cigarettes album, this is less blues and more hardcore rock'n'roll, with a riff reminiscent of George Thorogoood's 'Bad to the Bone' and some fantastic vocals from Clapton. The band he had around him at this point (1983) was probably his best, and they're on form for a great ensemble performance. 6. Layla Paradoxically, we'll finish with the song that launched Clapton's solo career, during the short-lived Derek & The Dominoes experiment. From the opening salvo, it's electrifying, and it doesn't let up all the way to the end, even after the guitars fade out into the poignant piano at the end. The reason this is at the end? Because if the other 5 tracks haven't convinced you, this one will - Eric Clapton is the man.

Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich, Michael Collins, and the sending-herself-up roles in America's Sweethearts and Ocean's 11. Julia Roberts is far from a terrible actress. She's annoying, and has made some bad films, but she can go when the project is right. EDIT: This is obviously a reply to LL, and not to the several posts now between that and this.

Ollie - DeVito, Ferris, Williams. 'Nuff said. EDIT: LL - overrated, for me, is about how much hyperbole somebody gets compared to the actual talent. I like Radiohead, I really do, they had one of the best albums of the 90s, but they still rank near the top of my 'most overrated bands' list. With Norton, the following he gets is so far removed from his almost uniformly-average, sleepwalking performances that he slingshots to the top of that list - he's not as bad as some actors, not by a long shot, but I can't think of anybody worse than him who gets the same level of acclaim.

Ollie's spot on. Edward Norton, on the basis of one performance in a movie that was a starmaker for the other lead, is the most overrated actor in cinema.

Edward NORTON?! I'm going to have to stop reading other people's lists, it's getting me all worked up.

Meh. I liked Schindler's List, definitely, but he's been phoning it in for years now. Kinsey, Phantom Menace (he was, to my mind, the worst thing in that film, although that has a lot to do with the writing of the character), Batman Begins, Taken, the list goes on. I'm honestly expecting his next big payday to be as a Bond villain, because that has just the right level of 'well-spoken, maybe has a good moment, can hold the camera but is ultimately two-dimensional,' which has been Neeson's stock in trade since about 1995.