The Victoria line is funked

Dorian Lynskey’s attempt to chart the branches of 100 years of music using the underground map is an act of twisted, random genius.

Madly ambitious, and with an explanation promptly stuck on our Culture Vulture blog, the arguments about what should have been included and what not, and how it all interlinks, could well take from now until the second coming.

It’ll undoubtedly be one of the most-read blog posts on the network this year, and I can say that without even looking at the stats.

And it certainly threatens to make my iPod playlists rather more interesting. How about creating a playlist for specific journeys around the network? Coming home from work, I’d jump on the Electronica & Dance line at Goldie, going through Jamiroquai, Beastie Boys (change here for the hip-hop line), Coldcut (change here for the Reggae line) and Chemical Brothers, before getting off at Beth Orton. Which somehow sounds wrong, but anyhow.

Then I’d head south on British folk line - eh? this could damage house prices here, you know - going through Paul Giovanni and Nick Drake before alighting at Fairport Convention. Or I could continue on to Bert Jansch to go to Tesco.

What a musical adventure. And I much, much prefer the Jubilee’s renaming as the Avant-garde.