"It's the ultimate record to collect – a blank canvas that's sterilised," he says.
More club records would tumble: most league goals in a campaign, most away league wins, most away league goals, highest points total, best league finish and the ultimate record: first time in the Premier League.
Marable's book, published in 2011, is widely considered to be the ultimate record of the life of Malcolm X. Deadline reports that the drama series will draw heavily on previously unknown details revealed in the book about the outspoken black activist. .
He has just been honoured with Gramophone magazine's lifetime achievement award, the ultimate recording industry accolade, entirely fitting for a man whose studio career spans 52 years and who has probably issued more discs than any other single living pianist.
That's what I want – to make this record to be the ultimate party record.
Reaching the ultimate batting record has been some time coming, 34 innings to be precise, but nobody involved in the game of cricket will begrudge Tendulkar this special and remarkable moment of triumph.
This is the velodrome where Chris Boardman rode through a wall of noise to the ultimate Hour record in 1996, where Yvonne McGregor stormed to a world pursuit title in 2000 at the start of the Lottery-funded gold rush, where the British cycling revolution had its apotheosis in the 2008 world championships and won half of the 18 golds on offer.
"It's the ultimate remix record... that sounds oddly ahead of its time," you say with a nod to Rolling Stone, before returning to the Boston Globe for the final judgment: "As fun as it is daring, The Grey Album is, if not the best album of this still-new year, then certainly its most creatively captivating.
At one point, Ocean's friend's mum warns him, via answerphone on Be Yourself, that "when people become weed heads, they become sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned", but like some sci-fi chemist, he makes a synthetic cannabinoid from sound; Blonde is perhaps the ultimate stoner record, actually replicating weed's various effects.
The Isle of Man racer also holds the ultimate lap record for the sidecar class, which he set in 2009.
Lytle described the album as "Grandaddy influenced by Grandaddy... the ultimate Grandaddy record".
