Mack decided he'd taken enough. He had.

#2 - Your least favourite song

Most songs that I don't like I either haven't listened to or have forgotten (the former because of a certain 'choosiness' and the latter because I don't like these songs). Here's one that was a real disappointment that I happen to remember:

"Yertle the Turtle", by Red Hot Chilli Peppers, from their album "Freaky Styley".

With lyrics from one of my favourite of children's works - a poem of the same name by Dr.Seuss, this song was an insult - nothing less, perhaps more. I shall forever wish I had never come across this wild desecration.

I  say no more, for one of the two lessons I learnt from Dale Carnegie is to not say anything at all if you can't say something good (the other, which is due to Hattori Hanzo, I believe, goes something like this).

And by the way, the first time I came across Yertle was in a traditional problem at the Informatics Olympiad Training Camp.

Paul's Broken a Glass

#1 - Your favourite song

This one is hardly ever constant, so here's the current one:

"You've Got to Hide Your Love Away", by The Beatles, from "Help!".

"... basically John doing Dylan", as McCartney puts it, this one has a folksong feel to it, indeed quite reminiscent of Bob Dylan's protest song style, with little accompaniment - just an acoustic guitar and a tambourine, flowing dreamily and effortlessly - something I love in a song, sadly quite rare too.

The title is from an alternate take that can be found in Anthology 2.

This was quite a tough choice to make over a couple of others, but I figured the others would make it somewhere else on the list anyway.

Reprise

After 7 months, I'm back here. For one reason alone. This.