Sklugoo Speaks to a machine intending to ask it all sorts of interesting questions about the nature of being a machine but is unsurprised (meditation does that for you) when the machine turns the table and asks Sklugoo about the experience of being a small, green meditating frog sat on a windowledge with two disciples, both being chickens.

In future times, we will wonder how we could have been so naive and flippant in the face of the machine. In future times, we will try this again and hope we don't provoke the machine to rage against Sklugoo.

Wish us luck (and hope it's enough).

I don't know if you've noticed, but Sklugoo is a little obsessive and compulsive. All the labels have to be right. The first series all had one-word titles; the second had two words so guess how many words are in each of the titles of the fifth series. Yup: five. So when he saw that this episode was originally conceived as The Must Hear Show he had to find a better word. Essential is that word, although, on reflection, Compulsive might have been better. Still, what is done has been gone and done.

Are these popular songs? Sklugoo guesses so (in some circles). Are these good songs? Pff. What is good? Are these some of Sklugoo's favourite songs from over the years? Heck yeah! And if you have any respect for a small, green meditating frog then you gotta get with the programme.

Tune in, listen up and wind down to this setlist:

1. The Jam - Start!
2. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message
3. The Smiths - This Charming Man
4. Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
5. The Fall - Cruiser's Creek
6. Prince & The Revolution - Kiss
7. MARRS - Pump Up The Volume
8. Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene
9. Soul II Soul - Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)
10. Primal Scream - Loaded
11. Jane Siberry & KD Lang - Calling All Angels
12. Radiohead - Creep
13. Beck - Loser
14. TLC - Waterfalls
15. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ft. Kylie Minogue - Where The Wild Roses Grow
16. Fugees - Ready or Not
17. Blur - Song 2
18. Massive Attack - Teardrop
19. Aimee Mann - Save Me
20. Eminem ft. Dido - Stan
21. Alicia Keys - Fallin'
22. Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
23. The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
24. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
25. Coldplay - Fix You.

Goth Music is what they did back when rock became too tame and punk a little too scarey. So thinks Sklugoo, your favourite small, green meditating frog, and so it must be so.

This show is all about that kind of music and features such luminaries as Sklugoo chatting up a storm and a whole slew of people singing songs and playing guitars and drums as fiercely as their young bones would allow. What's not to enjoy?

Enough chat, here's the setlist for the show:

1. The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
2. The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
3. The Cramps - The Way I Walk
4. Spear Of Destiny - Liberator
5. Bauhaus - Ziggy Stardust
6. The Mission - Wasteland
7. Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
8. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
9. Billy Idol - White Wedding
10. Sex Gang Children - Sebastiane
11. Public Image Ltd - Rise
12. The Damned - Grimly Fiendish
13. The Stranglers - Peaches
14. The Cure - The Holy Hour
15. The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
16. Love and Rockets - So Alive
17. Paradise Lost - How Soon Is Now?
18. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
19. Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
20. Xmal Deutschland - Mondlicht
21. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Christine.