Times are Hard?

Some days it's as much as you can do to eat your gluten-free muesli without choking. This morning it was the 'The Sunday Times' list of the best 20 songs of 2005.

It's hard enough to get your head round the idea of why anyone would waste their time trying to compile such a list of worthies. So by the time you get to the list itself, you know you're going to be struggling.

After the shock of realising that I didn't know half the names picked, came the sadder one that I knew the names left.... Please tell me that the inclusion of Girls Aloud's Biology is a demonic, pre-festive joke - the rambling of a man already hiding with his granny's sherry bottle..... is this the same song that has them dressed in a video in different dresses and feminine poses, where there is as much irony as a Christmas turkey watching 'Chicken Run'?

After listing more notable considerations such as the Arctic Monkeys 'Fake Tales from San Francisco' and the Crooked Fingers' 'Call to Love', they arrive like a rabid lemming at the Sugarbabes' 'Push the Button'. Before you even have time to gasp for breath they then announce their no. 1 is the Stereophonics' 'Dakota'. Ok, I appreciate any list is going to be nothing more than subjective ramblings, and I should just turn the page wearily, but do they really have to play so hard to the gallery?