Song of the Day: Another sleep-themed song, not so much evoked by lyrics, but by the extraordinarily loud but also woozy sound of the band headed by Kevin Shields and his innovative tremolo guitar technique
Read moreFourth of July Special: Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
Song of the Day: Some songs for Independence Day are patriotic, others heavily critical, but this American dream number sees the then great young lyricist capture his country with surreal, vivid, humorous irony
Read moreFiona Apple – Sleep To Dream
Song of the Day: After Blondie's flirtatious daydreaming song, an entirely different take on the theme in the form of another New Yorker's sexy and deep voice dealing with a difficult ex-relationship returning to and haunt her
Read moreBlondie – Dreaming
Song of the Day: Following Roy Orbison's soaring voice expressing a fragile state of lovelorn dreaming, by contrast a sassier style by the New Yorkers, with Debbie Harry seductively revealing how flirted passion is always free
Read moreSanto & Johnny – Sleep Walk
Song of the Day: After the surreal, psychedelic layers of Soft Machine, let's move back to gorgeously dreamy 1959 instrumental hit by the Brooklyn brothers, and one of the dreamiest melodies ever written
Read moreHenry Burr / Leonard Cohen / OMD / Arcade Fire – Songs about Joan of Arc
Song of the Day: After recent songs about the famous who died at a prematurely young age, four very contrasting numbers about the legendary French military heroine who was burned at the stake age 19 in 1431
Read moreSuede – Heroine / Daddy's Speeding
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Auteurs track mixing the premature deaths of Lenny Bruce and Rudolph Valentino, two more from the 90s Britpop pioneers about two more stars who died young – Marilyn Monroe and James Dean
Read moreBlack Box Recorder – The English Motorway System
Song of the Day: After James Carr's Dark Street and Van Morrison's Bright Road, let's now travel down the darkly humorous musical highway of the English trio, first from their second album The Facts of Life
Read moreMattiel – Count Your Blessings / Whites Of Their Eyes
Song of the Day: Today's entry comes from the the singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, who is a designer by day and a performer by night, and here her rock-pop-soul songs reflect this, making multiple reference to colours
Read moreLouis XIV – Finding Out True Love Is Blind
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Arctic Monkeys after sun-down, sleazy sex-industry number, we cross the Atlantic again to go down and dirty with with the band from San Diego from their 2005 album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Read moreArctic Monkeys – When The Sun Goes Down
Song of the Day: Following the Libertines and the Strokes, this Anglo-American sequence now brings us to the young Sheffield quartet's second single from their debut album of 2006: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Read moreThe Strokes – Hard To Explain
Song of the Day: After yesterday's sun-related song by the Libertines, we move to the Strokes - but the connection is less a play on words, more of a musical one, and how influential the New York band on their contemporaries with this first single from 2001
Read moreI Monster – Daydream In Blue/ Gunter Kallman Choir/ Wallace Collection – Daydream
Song of the Day: To go with the flowering of British weather, let's dream to some electronic psychedelia by the Sheffield-based pair of Dean Holder and Jarrod Gosling from their 2003 album Neveroddoreven and its sampled origins
Read moreEartha Kitt/Nina Simone/Jeff Buckley – Lilac Wine
Song of the Day: One flower-based song, three great voices doing their versions, all intense, intimate and intoxicating. Let's drink all of them in, interpreting this song written by James Shelton in 1950
Read moreThe Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
Song of the Day: A nimbus-rich 1990 song much loved by anyone of a certain age who went out during a particular era - the dance and club scene of the late 80s and onwards, but who are the voices and samples within it?
Read moreMorrissey – Everyday Is Like Sunday
Song of the Day: Perhaps the ultimate number for an absurdly cold, cloudy British Easter Sunday, also this year falling on April Fool's Day, therefore so ironically and self-destructively bleak it's almost uplifting
Read moreXTC – You And The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful / We're All Light
Song of the Day: To brighten up a grey Easter weekend, two upbeat, romantic and typically eccentric numbers written by Andy Partridge from t 2000 album Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
Read moreCanned Heat - On The Road Again / Going Up The Country
Song of the Day: Leaping back out of Springsteen's Pink Cadillac, we continue our road journey with two 1968 hits by the Los Angeles blues band – a cover of a cover a cover – and also go back down the dusty track to see where it all came from
Read moreYello - The Race / Oh Yeah
Song of the Day: After the perfect pace and beautiful simplicity of Kraftwerk's Autobahn, here's a contrast race forward from handcraft in Germany to flashy millionaire Switzerland, snorting that white line of road into an 80s concoction of speed-and-coke-crazy synth sampling
Read moreKraftwerk – Autobahn
Song of the Day: Our previous two selections have been big synth pop hits, but here is where that all really came from – down an unclogged motorway all the way to Düsseldorf, and the timelessly influential work of Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider
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