There may be many reasons – it might be length, the edit, mix, the build, coda, narrative arc, solos, sections, and overall sound experience or meaning, but where, when there's a difference, does the LP version of a song sound better than the its 7-inch version?

Bleak and beautiful, songs of the North Pole and Arctic circle, Siberia, Alaska, Greenland, Svalbard and northern Canada, this week we're really up north, capturing, sights and sounds of a region where ice and snow are the norm

A topic fertile for the imagination, easy on the eye, and gently stimulating to the ear, with a whole world of brown objects, people and places where that colour is prominent in the titles and lyrics, not as a name, but as a definite shade that hits our visual and other senses when we hear the word and other associated shades

Playing chicken, strutting rooster, cock crowing, or cold turkey? In sound or style, metaphor or symbolism, this week it’s time for to play fair or fowl, with your songs about chicken, turkeys, and other poultry of the farmyard scene

A flood of flavours, associations, colours and shapes may spring to mind, but in song, leisure and pleasure or perhaps ice-cold pain, metaphor or titular in song, contrasts with sourer realities, melting hearts, but what also of the ice-cream man, and van, and surrounding culture?