Neil Young - my my hey hey out of the blue, 1979

"My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)" is a song by Canadian musician Neil Young. An acoustic song, it was recorded live in early 1978 at the Boarding House in San Francisco, California. Combined with its hard rock counterpart "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)", it bookends Young's 1979 album Rust Never Sleeps. Inspired by electropunk group Devo, the rise of punk and what Young viewed as his own growing irrelevance, the song significantly revitalized Young's career. The line, "it's better to burn out than to fade away" was taken from one of the songs of Young's bandmate in the short-lived supergroup The Ducks, Jeff Blackburn. It became infamous after being quoted in Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's suicide note. Young later said that he was so shaken that he dedicated his 1994 album Sleeps with Angels to Cobain."

James - getting away with it all messed up, 2001

"Getting Away with It (All Messed Up)", a slow-building indie rock track with a psychedelic bridge section. Davies said every instrument on the track was unintentionally out of tune. It talks about a guy called Daniel who saves a woman called Grace from drowning, and unbeknownst to him, saving her helps him save himself. Its original title was "Saving Grace"; the label had it changed as they reasoned the public wouldn't buy it with that title. A year after its release, it occurred to Booth that the song was about his son, whose middle name was Daniel, and his goddaughter Grace."

Saint Etienne - goodnight jack, 1998

"I recently discovered the band Saint Etienne and their album Good Humor. On the album there's a song called Goodnight Jack, which REALLY sounds like Current-era Tame Impala."

Dido - honestly ok, 1999

"This song always makes me sad, especially the line, But I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore."

Demis Roussos - lost in love, 1980

"Asteroid 279226 Demisroussos, discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Timur Krjačko at the Zelenchukskaya Station in 2009, was named in his honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 May 2014 (MPC 88407)."

Postiljonen - go, 2015

"Stockholm-based dream-pop band Postiljonen, consisting of Norwegian singer Mia Bøe and Swedish multi-instrumentalists Daniel Sjörs and Joel Nyström Holm, have just unleashed a brand new single titled “Go!”. Following up on the previously released track “Wait”, “Go!” starts with a scream and turns quickly into an ecstatic dance track. An empowering mantra to make all your dreams come true, the track is a tour de force combining blissful synth-pop arrangements and ghostly, dreamy vocals."

Sambassadeur - the park, 2007

"Sambassadeur don't know whether to laugh or cry. Placing melancholy words on top of buoyant melodies isn't a new trick - and appears to have been made compulsory in Sweden, whence Sambassadeur hail - but done with pep, it can still charm. Opener The Park doesn't just go for tuneful buoyancy - it teeters on the brink of outright euphoria, even as Anna Persson breathily undercuts the joy with her vocal, while Final Say might as well be a lost Saint Etienne single."

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The Mary Onettes - the laughter, 2007

"The band describe it best themselves when they told us “Previous influences like The Cure and Joy Division have now been replaced by Sade, Whitney Houston, Peter Gabriel and Vangelis”. That just about sums it up doesn’t it? Put this one in the queue for your next new wave dance party."

The Housemartins - hopelessly devoted to them, 1988

"To me, it never mattered whether people got the lyrics or not. I didn’t have that snobbery. I listen to a record purely on the strength of the music and vocals, nothing to do with whether it says something profound or whatever. Like Smokey Robinson – there are all sorts of his songs that I’ve liked and then later on thought, “Jesus, what a good lyricist.” I still love Smokey. He could’ve been singing the alphabet for all I cared, the lyrics are an added bonus. But then, when people say to me, “I don’t like your politics,” I think, “So what?”

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - contender, 2009

"Though it is tempting to tag The Pains of Being Pure at Heart as dream pop, shoe gaze, or even twee, according to Kip Berman, they simply make pop music, "without hyphenation or any other strange and unnecessary caveats." Instead of allowing their vocals to be swallowed up under layers of effects, the male and female harmonies of Kip Berman and Peggy Wang-East ring out and become a real centerpiece of their music. Together, Berman and Wang-East sing about both saccharine-sweet topics like young love and some harder hitting topics like death, drugs, and heartache."

Belle And Sebastian - you're just a baby, 1996

"I wanted to talk about Tigermilk as an example of their oeuvre in general – as the raw, often forgotten diamond. It’s their debut album, though I actually came to B&S first through If You’re Feeling Sinister, having picked it up from Fopp when I moved to the West End for university and decided a B&S CD was a good way of immersing myself in local culture. Tigermilk reminds me of that lost and lonely summer feeling, walking around the city killing time before going to work, worrying about all the books I had to read before September, the people and things and memories I was in love with, that paranoid and desperate desire to write myself and indeed keep writing. It’s a lo-fi sort of album; it feels sweet and magical in that simple way, and you can tell that it marks the moment when the band discovered they had something special going on."

Del Amitri - here and now, 1995

"early Del Amitri was not something you could dance to. It was quite angular and odd. I remember that first gig and just looking at a sea of nodding heads. It was quite inspiring."

Stars - going going gone live, 2008

"The music here burns slow and then smolders - not unlike the piles of autumn leaves (under cold gray skies!) that dot the lyrics - and it's easy to imagine this music serving, for a lot of concertgoers, as a wistful memento of That Cold Night We Saw Stars."

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Saint Etienne - haunted jukebox summer camp remix, 2012

"they clearly regard their first proper album since 2006's Tales From Turnpike House as some kind of recapitulation or theme statement--a looking back that's warmly affectionate but too cool to melt into nostalgia. Announcing her intentions with a striking half-spoken reminiscence of a fandom that began at 10, Sarah Cracknell devotes most of these songs to the young clubbers and music lovers she was and knew. But at times you suspect her subjects and personas are older, still caught up in the same dreams. And the subject of "Twenty Five Years" is the time in front of her. Her male partners Bob Stanley and Peter Wiggs provide reliable disco-inflected pop or vice versa that the remixers on the optional bonus disc trick up with more wit and fidelity than we who avoid remixes sagely expect"

Easterhouse - cargo of souls, 1986

"Easily the best political rock band of the 80s with jangly guitars and leftist politics! Through my teenage years my choice of music was pretty much an exclusive diet of fast and noisy hardcore punk rock... but there were a handful of exceptions. I loved a bit of folk music. My Grandads Wolfe Tones albums I still cherish along with my Mammy’s Johnny Cash ones but I also fell in love with bands like The Kinks, The Band Of Holy Joy and New F.A.D.S who i just liked the music. One band though that has been a constant for me throughout my life has been Easterhouse. Virtually unknown to the outside world their brand of cool indie guitar rock and absolute unashamed working class communist polemic as well as support for the Irish republican movement reached to the very core of me and I’ve been listening to them ever since"

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Saint Etienne - burnt out car balearico mix, 1997

"Burnt Out Car" is a single by Saint Etienne. It was released by Heavenly Records on 22 September 2008 to promote the November 2008 release of the band's latest best of album, London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne. The release of London Conversations was eventually delayed to February. "Burnt Out Car" was originally slated to be a single in 1996 and remixes were commissioned. The release was eventually dropped but the Balearico Mix surfaced on the Casino Classics remix collection and the Continental album. The original mix was not released until 2006, when it appeared on the outtakes collection Nice Price."

Jason Isbell — children of children live, 2016

"Whether you grew up in a happy home or a hotbed of dysfunction, feelings and memories concerning family are always emotionally complex. There are purely happy moments, sad times and shared coping, and of course there's always guilt about things said or unsaid."