Rate The Albums is a new series in which we line up a band's album output in descending order of quality, from top to bottom. Then you tell us how you think their CVs should be arranged. Banter ensues.

Here Dan Martin runs through the Manic Street Preachers' discography in his order of preference, starting with his top album 'The Holy Bible'.

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Listen to the songs and your suggestions as a Spotify playlist

So there we were, imagining that Florence And The Machine's 'Shake It Out' was about eschewing negativity for being happier and more positive. Well, we were wrong. It's actually about little drunk mice pushing pianos down stairs in the attic of your mind. Translation: it's about that godawful feeling that only a really, really bad hangover can give you.

It made us think; what are the best songs about being merry, quite, quite pisched or feeling heavy with the please-just-kill-me hangover?

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Vote for the best Manic Street Preachers track

Blimey. Running through all the possibilities for 'Best Manics Track' is a bit like having a life time's worth of Christmas dinners at once. Across a catalogue both grandiose and ebullient, pretty much every track is like 'Anthem O'Clock'.

Nicky Wire told us that the creative tension between his "rampant commercialism" and his bandmates' "artistic desires" were the coals in the engine of the singles, and that mix of the soaring and searching has tied together their best 7"'s.

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Sooo...one of those 'scientific studies' has appeared saying that a large proportion of the songs in the Billboard charts are about sex. Well, yes, I suppose many of you will be reading this with a reaction not dissimilar to "big wow" (plus a large roll of your collective eyes). But gasp (or maybe not) at what the modern pop song counts as 'sexy'.

'S&M'- a spluttering end to Rihanna's run of great singles, partially for the line "Sex in the air/I like the smell of it" (ew!). The nudge, nudge wink, wink Carry On faux lesbianism of Katy Perry's 'I Kissed A Girl'. Anything by LMFAO. Sexy? Well only in the 'sexy like a dentist-chair' definition of "sexy".

In this age of songs about dry humping in crowded, badly lit bars, it made us think about which songs are legitimately 'sexy'? (sorry, I won't use that word again, I promise).

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It was almost exactly a decade before the death of Steve Jobs that I realised he was about to fundamentally change my life.

On a plane to LA, stacking the twenty CDs I might want to listen to on the journey onto my tiny, bent and broken fold-down table, balancing a decrepit Walkman on the top like the van at the end of The Italian Job and wondering how the hell I was going to fit twelve airline bottles of wine and a shit meal on there as well, I turned to a feature in NME in which Steve Sutherland laid out the future of music.

Within a few years, he claimed - like a bald rock Isaac Asimov - we would be able to carry our entire record collection around on a small box in our pocket. It’d undoubtedly kill the music industry by making music an easily transferable, non-physical, seemingly valueless commodity, I read, but with cheap Merlot spilling all over my chunky copy of ’69 Love Songs’ and a lukewarm chicken korma in my lap, that seemed a small price to pay.

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Here comes the science bit: according to the boffins at Goldsmiths University Queen's 'We Are The Champions' is the catchiest song ever.

What? Catchier than Katy Perry's opus of hummable schmaltz? Catchier than 'Crazy Frog' by Crazy Frog? Catchier than the theme from Cheers? C'mon!

Apparently so.

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