What song best captures your current phase of life?

It will only be a short phase I hope, but I had to have a bit of my ear cut off last week. So ...

Your favorite demo or unreleased version of a song.

This isn't quite unreleased - it was on a charity record, but it's very difficult to find anywhere

I love the words

There's a feeling of change running through the land. The church and the right wing finally losing their awesome control. We don't give a damn for your border, And we are the future so take heed or look to your prayers

Your favorite live version of a song.

I picked another song from this LP last time this question came around. As far as I know all of the songs are only available in a live version, which is kind of cool.

A song from your most listened to artist of the last 20 years.

A song from college or early adulthood.

A B-side by the Cramps. Rock and roll with a slightly psychedelic feel.

A song from your teenage years.

Hoping to see Wasted Youth again soon.

If you were a professional athlete, what is your walk up or intro song?

This is the song I thought of first, but then it reminded me of another Pogues anecdote.

Most punk-y bands back at that time used to play very un-punk music before they came on. So you'd get obscure funk, or jazz, or prog music. Some of it may have been fine in another context, but I remember a journalist referring to it at the time as "keep these bastards seething music".

Anyway, when the Pogues played the Hammersmith Palais, around the time of Rum, Sodomy and the Lash...just before they came on they played the Pistols, Pump it Up, and the Specials...and maybe Dexys.

It seemed a very ballsy thing to do, but it worked

What's a song that you like but most of your friends don't.

This is a difficult one, there are lots.

What's a song that instantly makes you smile?

A song that reminds you of somewhere you lived.

Our local station was Clapham Junction for a while.