Given that I love lists and music lists in particularly, I’ve been studying The Guardian’s, 50 All Time Teenage Classics. There’s all the usual things you’d expect on there, Nirvana, Bowie, The Undertones, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, but the one that caught my eye was Teenage Dirtbag, not the Wheatus version, but a Girls Aloud cover. I can cope with a little bit of Girls Aloud from time to time, so I was compelled to investigate… and it actually works. It’s completely impossible not to smile through it.

I’m really glad they included it in the list (I hope they weren’t being ironic), there’s more snobbery in music than anywhere else and it gets in the way of people listening to stuff that’s a lot of fun.

Ok don’t spend all day with it.