Chucky Berry - Johnny B Goode

A party this evening. So sling this on, Johnny B Goode tonight.

Brigdet Bardot - Saint Tropez

Oh the summer has gone and I'm cold. Bridget Bardot will cheer me up with her challenging ode to summer sun.

It was of course, the theme to Eurotrash. Oh Eurotrash, I do miss you.

Georges Bizet - Seguedille

I attended the Royal Opera House last night to see Carmen.

My parents played opera constantly when I was a child. I hated it then. It was overblown, stupid, demanding and irritating.

Of course, as soon as even the meanest teenager has had a love affair, then opera is completely explicable. Opera is demanding in the way that love is demanding. You do have to listen to it. It is, in an age when most music has become a soundtrack, impossible to make it into disposeable chunks which may be consumed between microwave meals.

Anyway, to Carmen, that great bitch who lives and dies by her treatment of men. She could not be ignored either. You won't need a translation if you don't understand French.

Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525

The Peanut Duck does not always choose records that it likes. Case in point is this basket case of a record seems to go nowhere. You beg for it's terrible logic to stop.

How did Zager and Evans get a recording contract? The answer is in the year 9595. But we will not still be alive.

Roger Troutman - So Ruff So Tuff

The kind of music you'd have in one those unbelievably cool discos in films. The place where they dance as if they need to touch their knees with their elbows.

This is available on "The Many Facets of Roger", which is a glorious funk album, which is impressively self centred funk.