These are the nominees for "Best British Song of the Past 25 Years", to be handed out at the Brit Awards later this year:

• Heroes - David Bowie
• We Are The Champions - Queen
• Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush
• Night Fever - Bee Gees
• London Calling - The Clash
• Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
• That s Entertainment - The Jam
• I Don't Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart
• Look of Love - ABC
• Golden Brown - The Stranglers
• True - Spandau Ballet
• Careless Whisper - George Michael
• Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
• Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
• Sacrifice - Elton John
• Unfinished Sympathy - Massive Attack
• Why - Annie Lennox
• Fields of Gold - Sting
• Kiss From A Rose - Seal
• Wonderwall - Oasis
• Angels - Robbie Williams
• Yellow - Coldplay
• Babylon - David Gray
• Leave Right Now - Will Young
• Dry Your Eyes - The Streets

Now, aside from the fact that the first four songs were released in 1977 or 1978, and as such don't actually fall within the last 25 years, the bizarre inclusion of Rod Stewart, and even, if we will, not carping on too much at the suggestion that Will Young has recorded a song that is better than the entire output of New Order, Human League, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pulp, Blur, PJ & Duncan, The Spice Girls, The Undertones, Take That, or Dexy's Midnight Runners, one question remains:

When was the last time you heard Why by Annie Lennox?

I mean, really. Wouldn't it have been better to stick Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) on instead? If you really wanted to bulk up the female part of the list, you could have always nominated Kenckie's Come One 2Nite. Well, I can dream, can't I?