Given away free with the NME in 1985 and including songs by The Style Council, Prefab Sprout and Robert Cray, this was so popular that we received a silver disc for it... which we never got for any of our own singles.

With proceeds going to the Oscar Marzoli trust this album features the usual Glasgow suspects - John Martyn, Big Dish, Texas etc. This version of Heartbroken was recorded on the 1990 'X Album' tour, I think...

Curated by the French magazine Les Inrockupibles this is a generally fine compilation and it features John Cale's 'Hallelujah' which is the greatest of all Cohen covers. Our version was recorded when we were making 'Don't Get Weird'. Quine's solo is better than any that ended up on my album, I think...

An album of live sessions from KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Neil Clark and I with acoustic guitars, actually recorded early in the morning, as I recall.

John Zorn project for his Tzadik label. I guess he approached Quine first, as he didn't know me then. This is just me with Quine at Harold Dessau. Recorded around the time I was getting ready to make the Love Story follow up, I think.

Dave Derby and I with synths and drum machines making quite a racket. Appropriate for the song, I thought. At the time, at least.

This is the Negatives with me singing in French (with much pronunciation help from Dominque Durand and Yves Beauvais). I still sound like a Rosbif, I know.

This was recorded at Stephin Merritt's flat in the East Village. He had a dog up his jumper the whole time.

German label's compilation of their idea of good. They asked, I said why not? Where else will you find me rubbing shoulders with Tahiti 80 and Orwell? These are not special recordings, by the way, just the same as on my albums.

Lunz is Tim Story and Hans Joachim Roedelius (from Cluster). Their 2003 album Lunz was absolutely wonderful so I was thrilled when they asked me to contribute to Reinterpretations. Most tracks were remixes, but I don't really do that, so I wrote a lyric idea for 'Akimbo' based on the letters in the word and came up with Astrid Kane's adventures. Tim did the mix based on a rough mp3 I sent him. I think he did a great job.

I play keys and program, Jill plays guitar. She figured out the harmonies. Kris wrote us a note to thank us. How great is that?