Welcome to the latest edition of Pitchfork's Guest List. Each week, we ask one of our favorite artists to fill us in on what they've been up to lately: which tracks they can't stop spinning, what books they can't put down, and what new bands they've caught on tour. This week it's Will Gregory and Alison Goldfrapp, who recently saw an elderly Ennio Morricone bring an Italian audience to tears, mourned the loss of their favorite Hollywood actor, and suffered jeers while driving in their tiny electric car.

>> Favorite New Songs of the Past Year

Alison Goldfrapp: LCD Soundsystem, "Someone Great". CSS, "Make Love and Listen to Death From Above", and Beirut, "Sunday Smile".

>> Favorite Older Songs at the Moment

AG: "Once in a Lifetime", Talking Heads. "Runnin' Away", Sly and the Family Stone.

Will Gregory: Something like "Good Vibrations"? Is that too obvious?

Pitchfork: I think that may be my favorite song, so it works for me.

>> Favorite New Band

AG: Beirut.

>> Favorite Song Ever

AG: I find it's near impossible to answer. I just can't actually. Okay, just as a random thing, because I can't choose a favorite song ever, I'll go for Minnie Riperton's "Expecting".

WG: "Windmills of Your Mind" by Michel Legrand? Best song ever.

>> Last Great Film I Saw

AG: The Lives of Others. It's brilliant. It manages to cram romance, comedy, historical accuracy, drama, brilliant characters. Very sadly the lead guy, you know, who plays the star leading man [Ulrich Mühe -Ed.], died recently. It's sort of tragic.

WG: Yeah, I was just getting into him.

AG: Just getting into him thinking, "Great, when's he going to be in another film?" and he dies.

>> Best Recent Concert

WG: We saw Ennio Morricone play at the Hammersmith Apollo. He brought an orchestra from Italy, and that was quite good. You know, for an 80-year-old man. He had his audience in tears. Mind you, they were mostly Italian.

AG: I got one! The Flaming Lips, they played at the Electric Picnic in Ireland a couple of years ago, and I just had such a great time and it was really uplifting and inspiring watching them.

>> Last Great Book I Read

AG: Will can answer this one.

WG: [laughs] I was into this book by an author called JG Farrell, it's a very boring name, but he did win the Booker prize for it in about 1975 [laughs] called The Siege of Krishnapur. It's a very English story about the English Raj, where the English have been in charge in India and suddenly the Indians get fed up with it and so they-- the Indians-- mutiny. They blockade this settlement called Krishnapur and the English inside it who are absolutely Victorians in spades-- you know, they dress for dinner and they talk about butterfly collections and things. They run out of food, so they're stripped from being very aristocratic and upper-class to being nearly animals, and it happens over a slow, gradual period. And so it's a wonderful kind of critique of British culture really, or anybody, probably, once you're deprived of the necessities of life what happens to you. I thought it was good.

>> Favorite Piece of Musical Equipment

WG: Favorite piece of musical equipment? Help! Uh...Alison's voice. Does that sound corny? Yeah, now I've made her sick.

AG: [laughs]

WG: All right, a piano.

AG: Piano, and I think maybe harp.

>> Favorite Record Shop

AG: There used to be a really great one, well, I loved the one on Wolcot Street, Nash's, a shop called Nash's on Wolcot Street in Bath. It's not there anymore; he went off to live in Brazil with all his fantastic Brazilian records that he took with him, I think. But that was pretty good.

>> Best Purchase of the Past Year

AG: I'm going to say an electric car. It's called a G-Wiz and they look completely ridiculous and they make people laugh when you drive past, so it's quite good. They're small and look ridiculous; they're really tiny and look ridiculous.

>> Best Thing I Did This Year

AG: I stopped smoking.

WG: I've got a little boy who's one year old. I suppose I should say that [laughs]. So he'll not be offended in later life. [laughs] No, it is actually the best thing.

>> Favorite Venue

WG: The Volksbühne in East Berlin, which is a theatre and it still smells of cabbage and has a lot of atmosphere. It's actually a brilliant space though, it's where Brecht File did a lot of their first performances.

>> Favorite TV Show at the Moment

AG: You probably don't get it in America but here it's "TV Burp". It's by a guy called Harry Hill, who takes the mickey out of all the latest TV...he's very very funny. And it's good.

>> Favorite Radio Show

AG: Mine's Desert Island Discs on BBC [Radio 4].

WG: It was a bit of a nerdy program called In Our Time [also on BBC Radio 4 -Ed.], which is just about...different subjects. Quite detailed, actually, they talk about one thing, like it might be pi or it might be early Christianity or it might be Schopenhauer. And it's quite good at 9 in the morning to be subjected to serious info.

>> My Ringtone

WG: Well I've just left it in the factory one in the hope that it will suddenly become kitsch and fashionable to have the first ringtone over again, but it's just laziness.

AG: Mine's a cuckoo clock. It's fun.