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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
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Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding on the inside cover of Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2).
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)
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Rotary Connection, featuring Minnie Riperton and Charles Stepney (right).
Song of the Day: How to move from bluesy road tunes to this elaborate jazz-soul number at the peak of the psychedelic movement? Partly because this band also backed Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters
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Going all the way? Pink Cadillac
Song of the Day: After yesterday's heart-racing number by Cake, let's pull in to a classic car song by The Boss that puts aside a certain amount of religious guilt and, with a little innuendo, gets straight down to backseat action
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The Distance comes from Cake's second album, Fashion Nugget (1996)
Song of the Day: Following Kraftwerk and Yello, we return to the road. Or do we? Is this classic by the Sacramento rock band about an obsessive racing driver, or something else entirely?
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The Spencer Davis Group, featuring Stevie Winwood
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Helen Reddy track, let's compare that brave feminist anthem to a similar-era powerful man cry, performed here with Hammond-heavy brilliance by Stevie Winwood and co from 1967
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The Move, featuring the moustachioed Roy Wood, in 1968.
Song of the Day: Moving on from Johnny Cash's Hurt, we return to an upbeat, colourful song about mental health problems, penned by the eccentric Roy Wood, who later of course, became a hirsute star of Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard
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Johnny Cash. Still in pain, but with great dignity
Song of the Day: Our last song focused on dealing with teenage depression. Today, in one of his greatest career moments, Johnny Cash's cover addresses this in the autumn of his years, but also so much more
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Ezra Furman never fails to be entertaining on stage
A beautifully upbeat, mischievous, wistful, passionate number from the new album, Transangelic Exodus by the Chicago indie rock singer-songwriter, in which "the past is the past, but the present's nothing without it"
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Peter Gabriel, aged 23, in the early days of Genesis.
Song of the Day: Moonlight, eccentricity and experimental obscurity have very much been the direction of SOTD recently, and so it's time to unashamedly progressively rock on to Peter Gabriel's old band at their finest – when he still led it
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From the cover of Renaissance's 1978 album A Song For All Seasons
Song of the Day: After yesterday's mention of northern lights in a Laura Gibson song, let's turn back the clock to 1978, and a beloved hit by the prog rock band with a symphonic, soaring chorus and cascading bass line
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Jeff Buckley in full swing
Song of the Day: Following yesterday's Massive Attack song Teardrop, sung by Elizabeth Fraser, another work of soaring power and passion, and also tragic portent, by the man with whom she had an intense relationship
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Into the woods … from the cover of Midlake's The Trials of Van Occupanther
Song of the Day: To kick off the new year proper, two beautifully wintry and otherworldly album openers from the Texan folk rock band, both of which take a broad, historic perspective
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Jimi Hendrix, out-foxing all other guitarists in 1967, and ever since.
Song of the Day: More foxiness, with different association, and today we're getting unashamedly sexy on SOTD with a number that may not even be Jimi's greatest, but shows off every aspect of his incomparable panache and technique
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Thin Lizzy in '76
Song of the Day: After yesterday's gentle fox song by Belle and Sebastian, we turn to a fox of a different kind in a fabulous rock and funk number from the Irish band's 1976 album Johnny The Fox
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Sweden's Goat. They'll take you somewhere new …
Song of the Day: From yesterday's The Mountain Goat's to plain old Goat today, except there's nothing plain about this extraordinary psychedelic band from Sweden, who are taking music forward, back and to another place altogether
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Brothers Angus and Malcolm (right) AC/DC's founders, practising in their younger days
Song of the Day: A tribute to the late Malcolm Young, the steadily brilliant rhythm guitarist and co-founding member of the Scottish/Australian rock band, who recently passed away after several years of health problems
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Kevin Morby and co from the video to I Have Been To The Mountain
Song of the Day: Two splendidly uplifting tracks from the 2016 album Singing Saw by the American singer-songwriter, born in Kansas but living in Brooklyn
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Sisters of Mercy: Andrew Eldritch
Song of the Day: A Halloween and goth-style classic bonus track today, but with a twist, showing how a cover version can almost become a whole new song
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The Cesarians …
Song of the Day: Glorious, theatrical pop from the north London group fronted by singer Charlie Finke and keyboard player Justine Armatage
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