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Def Leppard
Pour Some Sugar On Me

Big Audio Dynamite
Rush

Poison
Fallen Angel

I don’t think these tracks need any annotation. They came up on the ipod’s shuffle all songs this morning, surprising how good it is at picking tracks…

Guns N’ Roses
Patience

Journey
Don’t Stop Believin’

Diana Ross
You Can’t Hurry Love

On rotation this week are some of my favourites songs from the Britpop genre, a style of music heavily influenced by ’60s British pop (especially The Beatles) and also 1980’s rock outfits like The Smiths. The Pulp music video is really awesome (yes I have been watching too much Man vs. Wild), it really fits with the mood of song and in some ways makes the track even better. The Oasis song is also a classic, obviously I could of put Wonder Wall here, but that’s kinda been played to death. Blur have so many good songs it’s hard to choose, I have all their albums, however this one came up on my iPod’s shuffle songs the other day and made me think of a Britpop post and it’s a good track too

Pulp
A Little Soul

Oasis
Champagne Supernova

Blur
There’s No Other Way

The first two songs by Cary Brothers & Joshua Radin don’t have a music video, so the tracks linked to here are just someone’s visuals put to the song. They were the best encode of each track I could find on YouTube though. Newer tracks by both artists on YouTube have videos directed by Zach Braff, and their songs have been featured on a number of his projects including Scrubs and the film Garden State. Calexico are also pretty cool, lovin’ the whole Mexican band thing at the moment—I also have some Mexican hip-hop, but that’s another story

Cary Brothers
Honestly

Joshua Radin
Don’t Look Away

Calexico
Corona

Loving the new Chemical Brothers album, below is the video for the first single. The U2 one reminds me of running around the lake near my house at sunrise—sun reflecting of the water, mist and that early morning chill in the air. Stay Positive also rates highly, a track I often listen to when I’m feeling a little too worn out by the world outside.

The Chemical Brothers
Do It Again

U2
Beautiful Day

The Streets
Stay Positive

My absolute favourite track at the moment is Franco Battiato’s cover of “Insieme A Te Non Ci Sto Più”. This song featured on the sound track to the film Manuale d’amore, and was originally released by Caterina Caselli in 1968. Also, in the playlist this week are two more tracks I really like from The Streets and The Shins.

Franco Battiato
Insieme A Te Non Ci Sto Più
(wma audio)

The Streets
When You Wasn’t Famous

The Shins
New Slang

I’m really lovin’ Sigur Rós right about now, it sounds soo much better on high definition headphones than the YouTube version though, but at least this clip gives you some idea. Fall Out Boy is also on heavy rotation on my iPod, as well as a few of my favourite Beatles tracks—the original simple stereo mixes, not that remastered bullshit.

Sigur Rós
Hoppípolla

Fall Out Boy
A Little Less Sixteen Candles

The Beatles
We Can Work It Out

Sorry I couldn’t find a better copy of “Magic Trick” on YouTube… here’s the two I did find, plus another M. Ward track:

M. Ward
Magic Trick
(from Microsoft Zune advert)

M. Ward
Magic Trick
(live)

M. Ward
Let’s Dance
(with original Bowie visuals)

Muse
Starlight

Motion City Soundtrack
The Future Freaks Me Out

Gym Class Heroes
Cupid’s Chokehold