Push comes to shoves, deserted island playlist etc, and the answer probably isn't some hundred-copy-pressed cassette of a Sydney underground punx outfit that'll implode before I even manage to find my walkman. Nah, it's probably those longtermers, the returners, those atop the now-non-existent LastFM Most Thrashed list: Jeff and Jason and Matt and the Royals. And, of course, the majority of the recorded output by The Hold Steady and Frightened Rabbit.
So, as those with ears to the web would know, it's been a big few weeks for people specifically like me.
Firstly, Frightened Rabbit have announced they'll be releasing a covers version of The Midnight Organ Fight in July. Tiny Changes: A Celebration of Frightened Rabbit's 'The Midnight Organ Fight' will, as the title suggests, celebrate (arguably, but almost definitely) the Scottish group's best album, as well as serve as a tribute to songwriter Scott Hutchison, who tragically took his own life in May, 2018.
Tiny Changes will feature re-jigged versions by Benjamin Gibbard, the National's Aaron Dessner, Chvrches' Lauren Mayberry, and Julien Baker, who contributes this near-perfect take on "The Modern Leper"...
The Hold Steady's Craig Finn also features on the release with a rendition of "Head Rolls Off", one of three songs he performed at a tribute concert to Hutchison hosted in Brooklyn last year. Listen to the full set here.
In other exciting Finn-related news, The Hold Steady will release their first new album in five years in August. The fantastically-titled Thrashing Thru the Passion will collect together the band's run of standalone singles from the past few years (2017's "Entitlement Crew" and 2018's "T-Shirt Tux", "Star 18", "The Stove & The Toaster" and "Confusion in the Marketplace") alongside five newbies, including "Denver Haircut".