Further ramblings of a self-made pauper

Of course in an ideal world, having been in rehab for the requisite length of time, sober and permitted only enough cigarettes to keep her voice at the level of dissolute huskiness that makes it interesting, Amy Winehouse would be dragged into the recording studio and made to rerecord Valerie using The Zutons' original arrangement and backing track.

That would be the ideal.


At the moment the two versions of the song I know are superlative in one part and poor in the other. That is why this spliced version of the song needs to exist.

(Edited to add: The Mark Ronson version featuring Amy Winehouse comes close to being what I had in mind, so perhaps there's no need for a further version - endure the first 45 or so seconds before the song starts:).



I have just spent an hour or so plundering Furtle's CD collection and adding bits and pieces to my Walkman. I still have over 5gB of space on it and pretty much the entirety of my CD collection, less the classical, is already on it. That must be of the order of 700 CDs since the clear out of the extraneous stuff of little consequence. There is still a fair selection of albums that I need to listen to before I decide whether or not to copy them; I'm not sure when I'll ever find the time.