This is a kind of soundtrack, inspired by listening to The Mixtape on RNZ’s Music 101 by former presenter on the programme Yadana Saw (01/24/2023). I really thought about how she said it’s so hard to choose 5-7 songs “that you can talk about, that you want to share but don’t want to feel judged by, that you really love and want to advocate for, that will also sound good on the radio”. It made me think, what would be my songs? Hard to keep it short but here are my top seven, that I loved from the moment I heard them, and which were musical/life markers in some way – from “20 Solid Gold Hits” pop to 70s ‘heavy rock’ and glam to punk to … everything that followed that:

Bowie – Queen Bitch. I discovered Bowie in the mid-late 70s via a friend of my friend Peter Howey – we used to go to Michael Brennan’s house quite regularly and he had “ChangesOneBowie”, and then I bought “Hunky Dory” and “Ziggy” second-hand off another friend, Alan Munro; they were both in rough condition, but I immediately loved Queen Bitch with Mick Ronson’s ‘heavy’ guitar sound combined with Bowie’s singing of what is quite a poppy song (Hunky Dory could be my favourite Bowie album, which is a very hard choice to make, but it probably is Aladdin Sane…).

The Chills – Satin Doll (or: Frantic Drift). Totally fell in love with The Chills and the ‘Flying Nun Sound’ from the first moment I heard it – which actually started with seeing Sneaky Feelings play live in a Timaru back yard (along with other bands including Say Yes to Apes). The dreamy, psychedelic, 60s-influence in Martin Phillipps’ songwriting filled me with such joy!

The Fall – Totally Wired (or: Lay of the Land). I didn’t love The Fall, until I did. I can remember driving in Annabel Scott’s car with “Grotesque” on the stereo and not liking it at all; but within a few months I had become a total convert, and I just loved the sound and lyrics of this song. (Favourite Fall period: 1983-86 albums – Perverted by Language, The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall, This Nation’s Saving Grace and Bend Sinister.)

Joy Division – Interzone. As detailed in the Trainspotting section, I got into Joy Division on Jordan Luck’s recommendation, and was attracted to the band straight away, mainly because their music was like nothing else I had heard before, quite mysterious even, helped by the production/sound by Martin Hannett.

Yo La Tengo – Nowhere Near. Thanks to Pete McFarlane I fell in love with the hard guitar combined with super-pop melodies of YLT, but what gets me with this song is the added, slow-building tension that is so powerful.

Sugar – Changes. I feel like I could say that I think this is The Best Pop Song Ever (just a bit better than The Las’ There She Goes); having been a big fan of Hüsker Dü and then Bob Mould’s first solo albums, I read about Sugar in the NME and had to check them out – fantastic song, and I went on to buy all the music and see as many live shows as I could; so much power.

Roots Manuva – Juggle Tings Proper. Yes, this is quite different to the other songs. I had had an interest in rap and hip hop since, well, The Message, and then from the mid-80s, but when I heard a song by this new guy on RDU I went straight to Galaxy Records and bought the “Brand New Second Hand” album from Dave, and loved every track; I just found Rodney Smith had come up with his own take on the scene, and then he started to show up everywhere because he was so clever and creative, plus the cool voice.

Ideally, these would be in the above list as well:

Led Zeppelin – Kashmir. “Physical Graffiti” was my first Led Zep purchase, and for me it was a double album filled with very cool music, of which Kashmir was the standout with that distinctive drumming and general noise assault.

10CC – I’m Mandy Fly Me. Back to my friend Peter, and driving around in the car of another friend of his (Grant Anderson), we would listen to the “How Dare You” album, and I loved it whenever this song came on, it almost made me cry (!). I bought my own copy on cassette.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Cinnamon Girl (live). I listened to a lot of music that was different to what I was into in the late 70s via Steve Tuite, and that’s where my long obsession with Neil Young started, and “Live Rust” was probably the peak of that.

The Bats – Joe’s Again, or Courage. More Flying Nun, and The Bats became one of my big favourites, I have seen them many times, and they really are a fantastic live band, especially back in the 80s and 90s; another band of super-poppy songs but with their own sound via Bob Scott’s singing and Paul Kean’s bouncy basslines, heavenly.

Gang of Four – The History of the World. I already owned and enjoyed “Entertainment!” and “Solid Gold” when the “Songs of the Free” album came along, but this took me to a new place – moving their punk sensibilities perfectly into glossy production and more sophisticated but clever songs, I really adore (still) the whole album.

REM – Radio Free Europe. The son of a work acquaintance at the time, Nigel Solomon, played me “Murmur” and that was it for me, off on a long trip following REM, initially for the same reason as with The Chills I guess: the retro psychedelic sound, but made in the 80s.

Fugazi – Waiting Room. When I discovered Fugazi I instantly fell in love with the band, their energy, their perfect interpretation of how punk music should be, loud and smart. There’s a live video on YouTube of this song that is exactly as my first time was, everybody singing the lyrics, amazing atmosphere – someone comments: “This is the perfect example of what music is meant to do to people.”

Leftfield – Afro-Left (or: Open Up). I still absolutely adore the “Leftism” album, and it was hard to choose just one song from it. John Peel used to receive hundreds of CDs, records and tapes every week, and he had to try and work his way through the piles to find things that he deemed worthy of putting out to the listeners of his show, which was only a couple of hours long, two times a week – and over a few weeks he played every one of the eight tracks from Leftism and explained that he had to because it was so good. Rated as one of the best dance albums ever.

Shabazz Palaces – A Mess… Same as with Roots Manuva, I found this act (on Sub Pop!), actually mainly Ishmael Butler (ex-Digable Planets), as being really different to other hip hop, and in a very creative, intelligent and distinctive way; I have bought everything so far.

Moderat – Bad Kingdom. A ‘super group’ of the German artists from Modeselektor and Apparat (hence, Moderat), I find their music really stands out as unique in the huge world of electronic music, much of which I love but I pick my way through discerningly, and their tracks can include great vocal melodies, especially this song.

Red Axes – Bela Lugosi’s Dead. Everything this Israeli electronic duo put their hands to is so cool, very creative, including guitar quite often. This cover of the Bauhaus classic is a bit different to their usual style, more subdued, but works as a brilliant interpretation, love it. Love them.

And then there’s this big, long list of songs that have meant (or do mean) something to me – or I just like them. It’s a bit messed up chronologically, and I’ve tried to keep it to one song per artist; it’ll be continually added to I guess:

George McRae – Rock Your Baby
Hogsnort Rupert – Pretty Girl
Shona Laing – Show Your Love
Badfinger – Baby Blue
The Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
T.Rex – The Slider, or Baby Strange
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run
Gary Glitter – Hello, Hello, It’s Good to be Back
The Sweet – Ballroom Blitz
Slade – Cum Feel the Noize
Wizzard – See My Baby Jive
Rod Stewart – You Wear it Well
Alice Cooper – Under My Wheels
Suzi Quatro – Devil Gate Drive
Deep Purple – Speed King
Status Quo – Roll Over Lay Down
Pink Floyd – Money
Neil Diamond – Cracklin’ Rosie
John Lennon – No.9 Dream
Fats Domino – Blueberry Hill
The Rolling Stones – The Last Time
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
The Byrds – Wasn’t Born to Follow
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
Jimi Hendrix – If 6 Was 9
Cream – Sunshine of Your Love
Space Waltz – Out on the Street
Mark Williams – Yesterday was Just the Beginning of my Life
Elton John – Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song, or Black Dog
Boston – More Than a Feeling
Sherbet – Howzat
Peter Frampton – Show Me the Way
Joe Walsh – Rocky Mountain Way
Gerry Rafferty – Baker Street
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music (White Boy)
Shocking Blue – Venus
Gary Wright – Dream Weaver
David Bowie – Cracked Actor
Kiss – Black Diamond
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock’n Roll
Buffalo Springfield – For What It’s Worth
CSNY – Our House
Linda Ronstadt – You’re No Good
The Eagles – One of these Nights
Split Enz – Give It a Whirl
Max Merrit and the Meteors – Slippin’ Away
The Church – The Unguarded Moment
The Chills – Kaleidoscope World
Donna Summer – I Feel Love
War – Lowrider
Time Zone/Afrika Bambaataa – World Destruction (with John Lydon)
Patea Māori Club – Poi E
Marianne Faithful – Broken English
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – American Girl
Thin Lizzy – Rosalie/Cowgirl’s Song
Toy Love – Rebel
The Bilders – Girl at Night
Instigators – Hope She's Alright
Suburban Reptiles – Saturday Night Stay at Home
The Great Unwashed – Neck o the Woods
The Cure – A Forest, or Primary
Yazoo – Don’t Go
Doublehappys – Moss Monster
Richard O’Brien – The Time Warp (Rocky Horror Show)
The Stranglers – Get A Grip
The B-52s – Planet Clare
Joe Jackson – Is She Really Going Out With Him?
Devo – Girl U Want
Squeeze – Cool for Cats
Marginal Era – This Heaven
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Patti Smith – Because the Night
Roy Orbison – In Dreams
Mi-Sex – Computer Games
The Who – Baba O’Riley
The Doors – Roadhouse Blues
Echo & the Bunnymen – Crocodiles
The Teardrop Explodes – Reward
Magazine – Model Worker
Androidss – Auckland Tonight
Gang of Four – Anthrax
Jonathan Richman – Roadrunner
Killing Joke – Follow the Leader
Joy Division – Shadowplay or Isolation
The Velvet Underground – Waiting for my Man
Dire Straits – Romeo and Juliet
ACDC – You Shook Me All Night Long
The Motels – Total Control
The Crocodiles – Tears
Dragon – April Sun in Cuba
Blondie – Heart of Glass
Joan Armatrading – Love and Affection
The Angels – She Keeps no Secrets
Grace Jones – Pull Up to the Bumper
Yazoo – Don’t Go
Roxy Music – Love is the Drug
D.A.F. – Kebabträume
Dead Kennedys – Police Truck
Television – Marquee Moon
Comsat Angels – Independence Day
Theatre of Hate – West World
Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
The Go-Gos – We Got the Beat
Guadalcanal Diary – Watusi Rodeo
Nina Hagen Band – African Reggae
Divine – You Think You're a Man
Martha & the Muffins – Echo Beach
The Vibrators – Baby Baby
The Skids – Into the Valley
Shayne Carter & Peter Jeffries – Randolph’s Going Home
Ultravox – Vienna
Cold Chisel – Star Hotel
The Saints – River Deep Mountain High
Ike & Tina Turner – River Deep Mountain High
Dance Exponents – Victoria
The Undertones – Teenage Kicks
The Ruts – Babylon Is Burning, or Staring at the Rudeboys
Blam Blam Blam – Don’t Fight it Marsha It’s Bigger Than Both of Us
The Body Electric – Pulsing
Beat Rhythm Fashion – Turn of the Century
John Cooper Clarke – Beasley Street
Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
Violent Femmes – Blister in the Sun
The Mockers – Alvison Park
The Gordons – Machine Song
The Clash – London Calling (or White Man at the Hammersmith Palais, or Armagideon Time)
XTC – Making Plans for Nigel
The Cramps – Human Fly, or Under the Wires
The Damned – Love Song, Smash it Up, or Melody Lee
Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead, or Double Dare
Frankie Goes to Hollywood – Relax
The Three Johns – Death of the European, or Teenage Nightingales
INXS – Don’t Change
Simple Minds – Love Song
Swell Maps – Midget Submarines, or Another Song
Boomtown Rats – Looking After No.1
U2 – Seconds
The Human League – Seconds
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Vice Squad – Last Rockers
Naughty Thoughts – Best Looking Girl
Tears for Fears – Mad World
The Members – Solitary Confinement
Richard Hell & the Voidoids – Blank Generation
Wreckless Eric – Whole Wide World
Buzzcocks – Moving Away From the Pulsebeat
Neil Young – Don’t Cry No Tears (or anything off Zuma)
Chuck Berry – School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Bell)
Hunters & Collectors – Talking to a Stranger
Fetus Productions – What’s Going On?
The Birthday Party – Nick the Stripper, or Sonny’s Burning
Aztec Camera – Oblivious
Cabaret Voltaire – Just Fascination
Wire – I Am the Fly, or I Should Have Known Better
New Order – Ceremony
Pete Shelley – Telephone Operator
Shriekback – All Lined Up, or Cleartrails, or My Spine is the Bassline
Dexys Midnight Runners – Geno
The Bluebells – Young at Heart
The Johnnys – Injun Joe
The Bats – North by North
The Fall – Fantastic Life, or Lie Dream of a Casino Soul
REM – Driver 8
Brian Eno & David Byrne – Regiment
Screaming Blue Messiahs – Someone to Talk To
Straitjacket Fits – She Speeds
Hüsker Dü – Powerline (or anything off New Day Rising)
Diana Ross & the Supremes – Ain’t no Mountain High Enough
The Replacements – Sixteen Blue, or The Ledge
The Clean – Tally Ho, or Anything Could Happen
3ds – Hey Suess
Simply Red – Money’s Too Tight to Mention
Hoodoo Gurus – My Girl
Lone Justice – East of Eden
Love and Rockets – If There’s a Heaven Above
The Verlaines – Death and the Maiden
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer, or Life During Wartime
Pop Mechanix/Zoo – Land of Broken Dreams
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Upside Down
That Petrol Emotion – Good Thing, or V2
The Pogues – A Rainy Night in Soho
Wah! – Seven Minutes to Midnight
Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
Public Image Limited – Public Image
Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
The Jam – Ghosts
The Four Tops – It’s the Same Old Song
Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer
Bob Mould – See A Little Light
Grant Hart – 25-41
The Gun Club – Sex Beat (or anything by The Gun Club)
Sonic Youth – Death Valley ‘69, or Starpower
Einstürzende Neubauten – Yu-Gung or Seele Brennt
The Front Lawn – Andy
The Waterboys – The Whole of the Moon
The Age of Chance – Kiss
Primal Scream – Velocity Girl
Beats International – Dub Be Good to Me
De La Soul – Keepin’ the Faith
A Witness – Sharpened Stick
The Style Council – Speak Like a Child
The Meat Puppets – Up On the Sun
Martha Reeves & the Vandellas – Nowhere to Run
The Mamas and the Papas – California Dreaming
Pixies – Cactus (or Levitate Me, or Into the White)
Throwing Muses – Counting Backwards, or Bright Yellow Gun
Swans – Blind Love, or anything from Children of God album
Belly – Feed the Tree
World Domination Enterprises – Ghetto Queen
The Wonderstuff – Give Give Give Me More More More
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy
The Smiths – This Charming Man
The Triffids – Red Pony
Green on Red – Gravity Talks
Let’s Active – Waters Part
The League Unlimited Orchestra – Things That Dreams Are Made Of
The Bangles – Going Down to Liverpool
The Go-Betweens – Bachelor Kisses (or Spirit of a Vampyre)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Tupelo
Billy Bragg – Levi Stubbs’ Tears
The Pastels – Crawl Babies
Snapper – Buddy
Tall Dwarfs – The Brain that Wouldn’t Die
The Sugarcubes – Birthday
Prince – Sign ‘o the Times
Butthole Surfers – Lady Sniff
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Bop
Orange Juice – What Presence
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Christine
The Pretenders – Message of Love
The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Gene Vincent – Be Bop A Lula
The Yardbirds – Shapes of Things
Paul Kelly & the Coloured Girls – Leaps and Bounds
My Bloody Valentine – Slow
Tackhead – Mind at the End of the Tether
The Loft – Up the Hill and Down the Slope
Edwyn Collins – A Girl Like You
Sinéad O’Connor – Nothing Compares to U
Nirvana – About a Girl
Fugazi – Provisional
The House of Love – Christine
The Primitives – Crash
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
The Weather Prophets – Why Does the Rain
Giant Sand – Artists
Bailterspace – Grader Spader
Dinosaur Jr – Freak Scene
Firehose – Sometimes
Aretha Franklin – I Say a Little Prayer
Pop Will Eat Itself – Beaver Patrol
Jeffrey Lee Pierce – The Midnight Promise, or Get Away
Tones on Tail – Real Life
Eric B & Rakim – Paid in Full
Morphine – Buena
Th’ Faith Healers – Moona Inna Joona
PJ Harvey – Sheela-Na-Gig
Mudhoney – Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More
Steve Earl – Guitar Town
Pavement – Kentucky Cocktail
JPSE – Bleeding Star
Uncle Tupelo – Watch Me Fall
Mazzy Star – Taste of Blood
Gallon Drunk – Draggin’ Along
The Cowsills – The Rain, the Park & Other Things
Lou Reed – Vicious
Kristin Hersh – Your Ghost
Trans-Global Underground – Temple Head
The Las – There She Goes
Stereo MCs – Connected
Chris Knox – Not Given Lightly
Abel Tasmans – What Was That Thing?
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy (or, everything on Blue Lines)
Dick Dale – Miserlou
The Breeders – Cannonball, or Saints
Link Wray – Rumble
Tiger – Race
Consolidated – Today is my Birthday
Nicolette – No Government
Fun-da-mental – Mother India
Lee Scratch Perry/Max Romeo – Disco Devil/Chase the Devil
Stereolab – French Disko
Teenage Fanclub – Star Sign
The Creatures – Peek-a-Boo
Tindersticks – City Sickness
The Front Lawn – How You Doin’?
Yo La Tengo – Tom Courtnay
George Harrison – What is Life?
Ringo Star – It Don’t Come Easy
Portishead – Mysterons
Kraftwerk – The Model
Björk – Human Behaviour
Tricky – Overcome or Ponderosa (or, everything on Maxinquaye)
Rockers HiFi – Push Push
Rae & Christian – Flip the Mic (feat. Jeru the Damaja)
David Kilgour – Diamond Mine, or Fine
Dimmer – Crystalator
DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World
Roots Manuva – Movement (or anything by Rodney Smith)
Serge Gainsbourg et Jane Birkin – Je t’aime … Moi Non Plus (also the cover by Nick Cave and Anita Lane)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan – Allah Hoo Allah Hoo
The Beta Band – Dry the Rain
Bobby Womack – Across 110th Street
Herb Alpert – The Lonely Bull
Nu Yorikan Soul – I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4 Hero Mix)
Howlin’ Wolf – Smokestack Lightning
Willie Hutch – Brother’s Gonna Work it Out
Pfm – The Western
Englebert Humperdink – Can’t Take my Eyes off You
Finley Quaye – Mashing up Lucifer–Stone the Devil
The Carpenters – Superstar
Rollins Band – Liar
Toots & the Maytals – 54-46 Was my Number
Lulu – To Sir With Love
“The Hot Spot” movie soundtrack – Jack Nitzsche, John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis, Taj Mahal, Roy Rogers, Tim Drummond, Earl Palmer
Dan the Automator feat. Kool Keith – King of New York
Moonman – Galaxia
The Small Faces – Tin Soldier
Curtis Mayfield – Pusherman
Juice Newton – Angel of the Morning
Leftfield – Release the Pressure (or anything by Leftfield)
Al Green – Love and Happiness
The Phoenix Foundation – Let Me Die a Woman
Method Man – Release Yo Delf
The East Flatbush Project – Tried by 12
UNKLE – Main Title Theme
Big Star – September Girls
More Rockers – Million Trillion
Calexico – Gypsy’s Curse
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Wail (or, Can’t Stop)
Souls of Mischief – 93 til Infinity
The Roots – What You Want feat. Jaguar (live)
I Roy – Sidewalk Killer
Jazzmatazz – Down the Backstreets
Kode 9 & the Spaceape – Sine
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Servo
Marlon Williams – Dark Child
Mermaidens – Under the Mountain
Wooden Shjips – I Hear Vibrations
Moon Duo – Dead West
Dawn Penn – No, No, No (You Don’t Love Me)
The XX – VCR
Fontaines DC – A Hero’s Death
Soft Plastics – Day Job
The Black Angels – Young Men Dead
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Shuffle Your Feet
David Holmes – Gritty Shaker
Jurassic 5 – Thin Line feat. Nelly Furtado
Paul Kalkbrenner – Gebrünn Gebrünn (Alexander Kowalski remix)
Sugar – Come Around (or anything off Beaster)
Superette – Saskatchewan
Sparklehorse – Sick of Goodbyes
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Louderback aka Troy Pierce – Grace (Anxiety)
Blondie – Heart of Glass
Elvis Costello – Watching the Detectives
Julian Cope – Greatness and Perfection
Marc Riley and the Creepers – Jumper Clown
Cornershop – Brimful of Asha
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
RJD2 – Ghostwriter, or Smoke and Mirrors
The UFO Club – Bo Diddley was the 7th Son
Delaney Davidson – Bad Luck Man
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
Mulatu Astatke – Yègellé Tezeta (My Own Memory)
Ed Rush – Kilimanjaro
Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood, or Melancholy Hill
The Monochrome Set – Love Zombies
OMD – Electricity
Cesária Évora – Tchintchirote
Ciccone Youth – Into the Groove(y)
Isaac Hayes – Theme from Shaft
UK Subs – Scum of the Earth
X – The New World
Th’ Dudes – Be Mine Tonight
Citizen Band – Rust in my Car
Cheap Trick – I Want You to Want Me
Prolapse – When Space Invaders Were Big
Minisnap – Big Blue Sky
LBGP – Cactus Cat
Netherworld Dancing Toys – The Trusted Ones
The Wastrels – Angels in Silence
Zoo – Private Military
Parliament – Flashlight
Hoodoo Gurus – I Want You Back
Flaming Groovies – Shake Some Action
Papa Michigan & General Smiley – Jah A the Creator
Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel – Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)
Brian Eno – King’s Lead Hat
Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear the Reaper
Grandmaster Flash – The Message
Scsi-9 – Morskaya
Konrad Black – Doodimbouttogay
Police – Roxanne
The Warratahs – Hands on my Heart
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
The Renderers – A Touch of Evil
Headless Chickens – Donde Esta la Pollo
The Mutton Birds – The Heater
The Swingers – Give Me One Good Reason
Fourmyula – Nature
Blerta – Dance All Around the World
Sneaky Feelings – Throwing Stones
Lucinda Williams – Passionate Kisses
The Wedding Present – My Favourite Dress
The Stooges – Gimme Danger, or I Wanna Be Your Dog
Underworld – Cowgirl
Pardon Moi – Inside the Outside (Dombrance Mix)
NoMeansNo – The Day Everything Became Nothing
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
Public Enemy – By the Time I Get to Arizona
Sly & the Family Stone – Everyday People
Jamie XX – Loud Places
Nina Simone – To Love Somebody, or Feeling Good
The KLF – What Time is Love
Wighnomy Brothers – Wombat
Marvin Gaye – I Heard it Through the Grapevine
The Soft Moon – Wasting
Andrew Weatherall – We Count the Stars
Interpol – Mammoth
Dum Dum Girls – He Gets Me High
The Fat White Family – I Am Mark E Smith
Frankie Rose & the Outs – Candy
The Idjut Boys & Quakerman – Radio Rage
Country Teasers – Anytime Cowboy
Boozoo Bajou – Killer
S.C.U.M. – Whitechapel
Cat Power – Love & Communication
Lorelle Meets the Obsolete – The Traveler
Big Black – L Dopa
The Bug – Poison Dart
Fuckpony – Burning
Scratch Massive – Shining in my Veins
Doc Scott / Nasty Habits – Shadow Boxing
High Contrast – Twilight’s Last Gleaming
Ty Segall – My Sunshine
Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Lovesick
Dubfire – I Feel Speed (UNKLE Remix)
Shabazz Palaces – Are you... Can you... Were you_ (Felt)
– actually, EVERYTHING by Shabazz Palaces (Ishmael Butler)
Larry Heard Presents Mr. White – The Sun Can't Compare
Blur – She’s So High
Beck – Loser
Mike Garry & Joe Duddell – St Anthony An Ode to Anthony H Wilson
Beastie Boys – Sabotage
Matthew Dear – You Put a Smell on Me
Jehnny Beth & Julian Casablancas – Boy_Girl
Air – Kelly Watch the Stars
ABBA – SOS
The Herbaliser – 12Da–tray
Leonard Cohen – The Future
The Specials – Ghost Town
The Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
The Only Ones – Another Girl Another Planet
Nick Lowe – So It Goes
X-Ray Spex – Oh Bondage! Up Yours
A.C. Newman – Dunno Much About Life But I Know How To Breathe (Chris Knox cover) (got to be one of the best song titles ever)
B.A.D. – Medicine Show
Derek Harriott – Stop That Train
Red Axes – What is in Your Head
Commix – Be True
Tame Impala – Elephant (Kanye West – Black Skinhead vs Tame Impala [Nate Belasco MASHUP])
Drycleaning – Scratchcard Lanyard
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
Unloved – Danger
Radiohead – No Surprises
Rone – Parade
Suuns – Instrument
Holy Fuck – Tom Tom (or, Luxe)
Yard Act – Dark Days
Aesop Rock & Homeboy Sandman – So Strange Here
Trentemøller – Always Something Better (Trentemøller remix)
Black Flag – Annihilate This Week, or Loose Nut
Shellac – Dog and Pony Show
Paul Weller – Uh-Huh, Oh-Yeah
Ariel Pink – Round and Round
Death in Vegas – Your Loft My Acid
The The – This is the Day, or Uncertain Smile
Lloyd Cole – Perfect Skin
Madness – One Step Beyond
The Sex Pistols – Holidays in the Sun
Happy Mondays – Wrote for Luck
Cassius – The Sound of Violence (Franco Cinelli Remix)
Grinderman – Palaces of Montezuma
Deerhunter – Spring Hall Convert
Wu-Lu (feat. Asha) – Night Pill
Working Mens Club – Circumference
Horace Andy – Skylarking
A Tribe Called Quest – Award Tour
King Midas Sound – Cool Out
Deena Abdelwahed – Fdhiha
The Staple Singers – Uncloudy Day
Burial – Night Bus
Green Velvet – Bigger Than Prince (Hot Since 82 Remix)
Pantha du Prince – Stick to my Side
M.I.A. – Mango Pickle Down River
MC Solaar – Nouveau Western
Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie and Clyde
April March – Chick Habit
Mos Def – Tinseltown to the Boogiedown
The Congos – Fisherman
Burning Sensations – Pablo Picasso
Smith & Mighty – Jungle Man Corner
Desmond Dekker & the Aces – 007
James Brown – Please, Please, Please
U-Roy – Natty Rebel
Oasis – Champagne Supernova
Queen – Keep Yourself Alive
Aerosmith – Sweet Emotion
State of Mind – Sunking
Shapeshifter – New Day Come
Mel Parsons – Slow Burn
Transistors – Your Life Could be so Easy
Surf Friends – It’s a Common Life
Bob Dylan – Subterranean Homesick Blues
Dick Move – Femoids Attack!
Don McGlashan – All the Goodbyes in the World
Thing – Other Side of the Dub
Zombies in Miami – The End of the Beginning
Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper
Witch Fever – In Birth
Revival Season – Chop
Danger Mouse & Black Thought Feat. Michael Kiwanuka – Aquamarine
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee – Country Of The Blind (feat. Bobby Gillespie)
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis – White Elephant
David Holmes & Raven Violet – Hope is the Last Thing to Die
Kim Gordon – Bye Bye
The Limiñanas & Laurent Garnier – Juliette Dans La Caravane
Holly Arrowsmith – Neon Light
Reb Fountain – Intermission, or How Bizarre (OMC cover)
Snooper – Running
Cari Cari – My Grandma Says We Have No Future
Lip Critic – The Heart
Candy Mackenzie & The Upsetters – Long Enough
Taleen Kali – Only Lovers Left Alive (Ringo Deathstarr remix)
Chloe Slater – Nothing Shines on This Island
Black Doledrums – Hideaway
Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl
The Waeve – You Saw
En Attendant Ana – Wonder
Dean & Britta & Sonic Boom – Pretty Paper
Soft Location – Let the Moon Get Into It
Anna Calvi - Miquelon (Peaky Blinders OST), or Ghost Rider (Suicide cover)
Disco Inferno – Second Language
Samson & The Philistines – Talk About the Passion (REM cover)
Omar Souleyman – Edamat (Modeselektor Edit)
Graeme Downes – Same Old New World
Milscot – All Alone feat. Angela Sheik (Domyan Just Slow remix)
Junior Murvin – Cross Over
Golomb – Real Power
Pearly* – Superglue
Baxter Dury – Return of the Sharp Heads