Scott Pilgrim, you are awesome, and yet your inventor is younger than me.

I fear this is something I will see more of...

I've been tagged by Dave to write on a theme:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.

Well, not "right now", but in Autumn, the season of '08 when Katie and I married. The majority of the music listening at the time was wedding related...

Love Stoned, Justin Timberlake
I like Justin Timberlake. 2008, the year I learned to love pop music and admit it. This album is mostly rubbish, but My Love and Love Stoned are hard to beat. Sure, My Love has the better intro riff, but Love Stoned has the killer ending, which technically is another song (I Think She Knows (Interlude)).

Love Is A Fool, Primary
On repeat for weeks on my MP3 player in the months before the wedding. One of those songs I'm sure isn't happy, but I choose to take it's message my way, ignoring the reality. I was into Caligula and ignored Primary for reasons I'll never understand, except perhaps their first album isn't that great. Unfortunately that means I missed their far superior second album, from which this song comes. Connie Mitchell, before Sneaky Sound System. I looked for these albums for years, eBay finally providing me with the music iTunes will never will.

Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour, Enter Shikari
I was so excited when I first heard these guys. They weren't afraid to mix up their styles, play with their production, playing hard and fast punk metal guitars over trance keyboard riffs. I loved them. Sorry, You're Not A Winner is impossible to beat, but Anything Can Happen In The Next Half Hour grabbed me for different reasons. But the feeling has faded. For a while I wasn't far from saying their next album could be as diverse and interesting as Angel Dust. Now that they're in the studio... I could barely care less. Like so much of my music discovery... I'm ashamed to say.

My Best Friend, Weezer
With not a flicker of sarcasm (I think), this song is so 100% happy and heartfelt it almost makes me cry every time. This album isn't popular with Weezer fans but I love it.

Life On Mars, David Bowie
The last scenes of the TV series Life On Mars use (finally) the David Bowie song of the same name. It's fantastic. I missed most of the series, probably only seeing about five episodes right through, but really, it's all about the set up, and the last episode.

Further, the latest Mars missions have been exciting me like I'm sure moon missions must have excited kids of the past. I think the Mars rovers are the best thing humans have ever done. Do not send humans to Mars, or the Moon. Use robots. Robots are AWESOME.

The King, Brian Tyler
From the Bubba Ho-Tep soundtrack. We were going to walk down the aisle to this song, or perhaps All Is Well, but instead we chose The Mask Of Kemosabe. The melodic theme running throughout all three songs is gorgeous. At once haunting, somewhat sad, but full of hope. Suitable for both our wedding and perhaps one day, our funerals. We asked both sets of our parents to walk down the aisle before us to The King. Speaking of hope, we finished the service signing our certificate to Apocalyptica's Hope.

Origin Of Love, Stephen Trask
From the Hedwig and the Angry Inch soundtrack. We don't have any traditions, nor do we have any recognised organised faith. It's perhaps bizarre to find comfort in the "soul mates" theme of this musical retelling of Aristophanes's speech from the Plato's Symposium, but we couldn't find a better combination of movie geekiness, political subtext and genuine love-story for our ring-warming.

Undercover received a lot of replies to their article yesterday about the lack of 21st superstars. Thinking about it over the weekend, I and Katie decided it has much to do with our age and the music we follow. We do of course follow 90s music, as that is the era we grew up with. It was perhaps a question for a teenager. Who do they follow? And I'm not convinced it's a question we can ask in the actual decade. Maybe we need to wait until the oh-teens to take any such question seriously.

Undercover Readers Cite The 21st Century Superstars:

The recurring act named as a true 21st Century super-power was The Killers. John Mayer, Jack Johnson, Alicia Keys, Kanye West and Norah Jones also received ample nominations.

But the truth is, in any other decade, would any of these acts be the superstars of the era or that second level of star. The ones you like, but don't accept unquestionably?

Many names nominated were from 90s acts. Black Eyed Peas, Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, Nickelback and Gorillaz (via Blur) were all established performers and recording artists when midnight of January 1, 2000 hit.

A lot of other acts are named in the linked article. All of which have merit. It seems it depends on where you put the goal posts.