"Every band runs its course"

Well, yes, Lee - but please don't say definitively that that applies to Sonic Youth too.

Lee Ranaldo's rather vague statement that the band are "ending for a while" isn't exactly surprising given the recent news of Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon's split. Still, the hiatus may yet be temporary rather than the "indefinite" but actually increasingly definite one Fugazi have been on since 2001's excellent The Argument.

Ranaldo's comments have prompted the Guardian into asking which is their best album. So many superb albums to choose from (including the most recent), but my vote would be for Dirty - punchily produced, sharp and crunchy, packed with classics, the gateway drug that got me hooked on their whole oeuvre.