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How were they not massive? 🤯

This venture is torture! But, 100% agree that this is the finest track on this album. Possibly of their catalogue. Like you said - ethereal. 🙌

Wowzers Trousers!

No doubt about it - I AM amazed!

Thought this was a dead cert for the Top 10. 🫨

Oooooh! Spirit of Eden?!

Love these books! Unknown Pleasures is a cracker. 🖤

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1️⃣

🌟🌟 Bonus - 12 Points 🌟🌟

Jimi Hendrix

Voodoo Chile

1968

Electric Ladyland

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God.

Immaculate, incomprehensible.

Robust angels around him - every fill, every flourish - but always returning to the omnipotence of that guitar.

The only rational explanation is voodoo.

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🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

Paul McCartney

Maybe I’m Amazed

1970

McCartney

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He declined to release it as a single! That’s why!

You can feel the relief. Write an epic love song. Play everything. Stick guitar solos between everything. Have a false ending.

He’s the modern day Mozart.

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3️⃣

🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

Radiohead

Reckoner

2007

In Rainbows

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Ok, guitarists. Here are some maracas. I’ve got the rest.

For such masters of soundscapesmithery, this is so basic. A shit-load of percussion, simple plucks, and the mournful melody. Then a sunrise coda!

Heavenly.

I wept to this at the Eras tour ❤️❤️❤️

Now THIS is the deep-cut deliciousness we are looking for! 🫡

Lovely pick 🙌

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4️⃣🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

New Order

Elegia

1985

Low Life

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Apparently, the Blue Monday bassline is a variation on Sergio Leone’s GBU theme. Well this takes the homage to that music box into overdrive. Epic in scope with some swirling counterpoint.

And no weird Barney vocals! 👌

Snap! Lovely pick! 🙌🙌🙌

Oh my word! This was one of my latest cuts. I just thought there would be no chance anybody else loves it so much. What a track!!! 🙌🙌🙌

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5️⃣ 🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

David Bowie

Moonage Daydream

1972

Ziggy Stardust…

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I’m an alligator!

Yes, David. Of course you are.

I can’t put my finger on precisely why I love this so much. Its nonsense. It’s universal. It’s exciting. It’s melancholy. It’s fun. It’s MY Bowie song.

Wait a few days… 🙌

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The Beatles

Golden Slumbers

1969

Abbey Road

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A melodic McCartney masterclass.

Often derided for his twee, romantic sensibilities, he’s even written ‘Silly Love Songs’ “…and what’s wrong with that?”

Love is.. to inspire sweet dreams. And love is the best thing we humans do ❤️

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Interpol

The New

2002

Turn on the Bright Lights

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My favourite song structure:

Pretty, melodic, lullaby introduction. Darker, propulsive exposition. Ultimate discordant recapitulation. Then bring it back with a malevolent, imploding coda.

These guys execute it perfectly. 🖤❤️

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8️⃣

Bill Withers

Let me in your Life

1972

Still Bill

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Such a simple love song. Handled by my favourite male voice. He’s properly underrated.

Snap! 🙌

Snap! 🙌

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Queens of the Stone Age

In the Fade

2000

Rated R

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Another art form perfected. In this case, Desert Rock.

The extended grunge riff of the chorus, the unfussy, melodic fills, all contrasted with the fragile, desolate verses.

And then some nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, etc….

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Nick Drake

Way to Blue

1969

Five Leaves Left

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His calming voice is so suited to his acoustic pluck. So when it is contrasted with the baroque, processional of the string quartet, the spotlight accentuates the strength in his calmness.

Disconcertingly gorgeous.

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Radiohead

Let Down

1997

OK Computer

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The sleeper highlight of OKC?

First packed between the devastating and the monumental, it initially seemed like a soothing palette cleanser. But it is so fucking clever. Weird time signatures, early cadences,

I’m out of space..

Euphoria.

Lovely, lovely pick! 🙌🙌🙌

So cloooose! 1 day out, 2 tracks out. What an album! 🙌🙌🙌

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Massive Attack

Man Next Door

1998

Mezzanine

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On an album which absorbs light, this is possibly its most threatening track. Horace’s angelic clarity pierces through the murk of fear of unnamed, fussy, fighty men

And HM to the similarly foreboding Cure sample 👌

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Jeff Buckley

Morning Theft

1998

Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk

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Oh, what could have been

💔

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Pearl Jam

Black

1991

Ten

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An atmospheric track becomes transcendent with that line….

I know someday you’ll have beautiful life
I know you’ll be a star
In somebody else’s sky
But why, why, why
Can’t it be
Cant it be mine

And then the du-du-duh-duh du-du-duh outro…

RIP Vicky 🖤

Lovely pick! 🙌