I find that people are rarely neutral about Tom. I have friends who have to leave the room when he pops up on the iPod, and others (admittedly not many!) who think his music’s marvellous. I think he’s great, and if I could take only one artist’s music to my desert island, it would have to be his. I’m not sure whether this video would help to persuade the doubters of his weird genius, but here’s the link anyway.

“Chocolate Jesus”, by Tom Waits.