Acid House Kings - this heart is a stone, 2005

"Tim Sendra of AllMusic hailed Sing Along with Acid House Kings as "one of the best releases, indie or not, of 2005."

Ban - mundo de aventuras, 1990

"Just more music for “in between seasons”. What else can you say to describe the latter-day work of, sadly, now defunct, Portuguese sophisticated pop group, Ban? As I put on their Mundo de Aventuras it’s not hard to have your mind race back to more naive times when certain love songs spoke to youthful measures one can never truly quantify. It’s times like these we need songs just like these. We’ve heard some of these ideas in the music of Paddy McAloon’s Prefab Sprout, the Go-Betweens, and others, but to hear those twists of pop sweetness coming from such a group as you’ll meet here, now remains strikingly refreshing."

Never saw so much love in 1m20s.

 

Algures no terramoto da Venezuela. Coragem e fidelidade. When you need me, I'll be there. When you're afraid, I'll be there. When it happens — I'll be there. I'll be with you, today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Neil Young - the needle and the damage done live at massey hall, 1971

"Neil Young played “The Needle and the Damage Done” live at Massey Hall in Toronto in January 1971. The song captures the tension and cost of addiction through vivid, prophetic lyrics. In the live setting, Young’s phrasing feels raw and urgent, almost like a confession."

The Beach Boys - surfin, 1961

"Brian recalled that his brother had made the suggestion to write a surfing song, after which Brian conceived "Surfin'" while repeatedly singing the title line at his piano. In his recollection, it was within hours that he completed the song and titled it "Surfin'". The Wilson brothers' cousin, Mike Love, is credited with contributing the lyrics and the "bom-dip-di-dip" hook, which had been lifted from Jan and Dean's 1959 hit "Baby Talk". "I wanted it to have a doo-wop sound", Love said."

Acid House Kings - brighter, 1997

"Historically, acid house spread from club DJs and underground scenes to a wider audience by the late 1980s, and its sound went on to influence many later electronic genres (like techno, trance, breakbeat hardcore, jungle, and others)."

The Mountain Goats - done bleeding, 2019

“Done Bleeding” is the first song on the 2019 album “In League with Dragons”. John Darnielle has said the song is about his decision and time leaving his job as a psychiatric nurse at Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, California."

Fleetwood Mac - mission bell, 1970

"The album title is taken from the name of two converted oast houses, known as Kiln House, in Truncheaunts Lane in East Worldham, near Alton, Hampshire. The oast houses had previously been used for drying hops for beer brewing and were later combined into one building."

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - electricity, 1979

"Electricity" was the first song that Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys wrote together at the age of 16. It addresses society's wasteful usage of energy resources. Inspired by Kraftwerk's "Radioactivity", the track was described by McCluskey as "a faster, punkier version of 'Radioactivity' with a chorus". As with single "Messages" from the same album, a sung chorus is substituted for a melodic synthesizer break."

The Beatles - taxman, 1966

"Written by the group's lead guitarist, George Harrison, with some lyrical assistance from John Lennon, it protests against the higher level of progressive tax imposed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Harold Wilson, which saw the Beatles paying over 90 per cent of their earnings to the Treasury. The song was selected as the album's opening track and contributed to Harrison's emergence as a songwriter beside the dominant Lennon–McCartney partnership. It was the group's first topical song and the first political statement they had made in their music."

Dystopian Novels - ignored, 2025

"This bittersweet ballad sings of topics of despair and hopelessness while drawing you in with sway-worthy acoustic guitar and a warm tone that one can only assume comes from an analog recording or something adjacent."