The Radio Dept - what you sell, 2006

"The song explores themes of consumerism, identity, and superficiality. The lyrics are cryptic yet poetic, typical of The Radio Dept.’s approach, often leaving room for listener interpretation."

Death Cab For Cutie - when we drive, 2018

"there’s a noticeable electronic focus to a number of tracks, not least the FM-ready ‘When We Drive’, which groans under the weight of sine waves and metronomic rhythms."

REM - überlin, 2011

"Überlin" is a song by American alternative rock band R.E.M. that was released as the third single from their fifteenth and final studio album Collapse into Now on January 25, 2011. The title is a portmanteau of Über and Berlin."

Yot Club - priorities, 2022

"Priorities" is a track by Yot Club, the musical project of Ryan Kaiser, an American bedroom pop artist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. The song was released on June 10, 2022, and is part of his album "off the grid." The lyrics reflect themes of balancing personal relationships with individual responsibilities and productivity, as seen in lines like "And it's all just motivation for vague productivity / I'm just concentrated more on priorities."

Stars - elevator love letter, 2003

"Stars songs tend to unfold more slowly, from the brilliant retro-futuristic "Death to Death" to the disco-lite Pet Shop Boys-styled "The Vanishing." Amy Millan's gorgeous voice is the group's greatest strength - on the bouncy, propulsive "Elevator Love Letter," for example. It's not surprising that Millan has contributed to movie soundtracks - the entire album would sit most comfortably as the decidedly outsider accompaniment to an appropriately indie "Romantic Comedy" (incidentally also the title of one of the record's most beautifully simple and sunny songs)."

Glorious - notre père, 2015

"Glorious is a French Christian (Catholic) rock and worship music group, originally from Valence, Drôme, and based in Lyon, France. It was formed in 2000, following the World Youth Day, by three brothers from Valence."

Slowdive - alison live, 2017

“Alison” is the one track that I can honestly say that I’ve always loved from the album. As an opener, it was a hard one to move past and I rarely did. The guitars jangle and waver, a shimmering of light highlighting millions of tiny specks of dust, lifted and disrupted ever so gently by a passing breeze, the same that caused flutters in the gossamer curtains of sound. Drums are far off in the distance and deep down in the mix, like a harrowing memory. The reverb is like a third person in the room, pushing together the lilting voices of Halstead and Goswell, even as it as ripping them apart. “Alison” could be anyone who’s ever broken your heart, a smoker’s cough and an ashtray overflowing with butts, a hangover and a dozen empty merlot bottles."

Seapony - nobody knows, 2011

"Formed in 2010, Seapony is bassist Ian Brewer and core songwriting duo — and longtime couple — Jen Weidl (guitars, vocals, lyrics) and Danny Rowland (guitar, lyrics), who met in Ohio in the early 2000s. Their coastal relocation has served them well; their debut LP Go With Me was rife with humbly infectious shoreside ebullience."

The Beatles - we can work it out, 1965

"We Can Work It Out" is a comparatively rare example of a Lennon–McCartney collaboration from this period in the Beatles' career, in that the two songwriters worked together as they had when writing the group's early hit singles of 1963. "A Day in the Life", "Baby, You're a Rich Man", and "I've Got a Feeling", are among the other notable exceptions to this trend from the group's later career."

The Radio Dept - closing scene, 2008

"Love this song. You are my favorite band and have been for so long."

The Lightning Seeds - life's too short, 1999

"Originally conceived as a one-off experiment for respected longtime producer Ian Broudie, his expertise in the studio and sugary voice made for easy hit-making, so Lightning Seeds took on a life of its own. Ten years later, we now have his fifth effort, and the magic is still there. Broudie has an uncanny flair for pure pop, and Tilt is no exception. He seems to be trying to attract a younger audience with the club-anthem sound of the “Life’s Too Short” single, which sounds a bit campy, but it’s forgivable."

Frightened Rabbit - holy, 2013

"Songs dedicated to Hutchison released after his death include Coldplay's "Champion of the World", Dan Mangan's "In Your Corner", Spanish Love Songs' "Routine Pain", Mystery Jets' "Watching Yourself Slowly Disappear", Dave Hause's "Bearing Down", Biffy Clyro's "Unknown Male 01", and The Lone Bellow's "August", co-written with Aaron Dessner, who produced Frightened Rabbit's album Painting of a Panic Attack. Dessner also wrote the song "Hutch" from his band's Big Red Machine second album, 2021's How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last?. "A Wave Across a Bay", from Frank Turner's 2022 album FTHC, was written after the musician had a dream in which "Scott came into my room with a guitar and showed me a few chords and a few words and some melody". Deacon Blue have dedicated their 2020 track Weight of the World to Hutchison. James Yorkston's 2023 album with Nina Persson and The Second Hand Orchestra, The Great White Sea Eagle, includes a song dedicated to Hutchison titled "A Sweetness in You".

Black Pumas - chronicles of a diamond, 2023

"bursting with colorful experimentation and pure musicianship that showcases a diversity that wasn't present on their debut"

Damien Jurado - in a way probably never, 2023

"he can let his stripped-down acoustic guitar chords mingle and intertwine with lovely orchestrations. That, and the fact that his voice is just the right amount of “understated” while still retaining a mysterious, almost unexplainable allure. That last part is probably why Jurado can get away with crafting shockingly simple tunes from time to time, such as the aforementioned “A Buildings Kind of Building” or a good chunk of “In a Way Probably Never” – the latter of which is quite close to Neutral Milk Hotel’s “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” in chord progression and rhythm."

Electronic - the patience of a saint, 1990

"Although Neil has written and recorded a couple other songs with Johnny Marr and Bernard Sumner as part of their Electronic project ("Getting Away with It" and "Disappointed," with Neil singing lead on the latter), this cut from the 1991 Electronic album is the only one on which both Neil and Chris are co-writers and performers. As Sumner himself has said of this song, Chris "wrote a lot of the music." Thus it merits inclusion here as a "Pet Shop Boys track." The narrator (or perhaps, as we shall see, narrators) of this song is something of a bastard, set in his carefree ways, who admits that he's difficult to live with."