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Reggie Watts. A performer of infinite jest.
Song of the Day: Following Childish Gambino's laceration of American history and culture, let's move into loopier acerbic perspective with the comedian, rapper and singer from his 2010 album Why Shit So Crazy?
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Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover in a still from the video by Hiro Murai
Song of the Day: Continuing our ongoing edgy theme, this time on a different plain – a super-sharp, ironic cultural commentary with one of the most talked about videos in years by the US rapper, actor and comedian, aka Donald McKinley Glover Jr.
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From the cover of IDLES' 2017 album Brutalism
Song of the Day: Continuing a threshold-crossing theme, let's go over into a different edginess, moving from LCD Soundsystem's ironic music lists to amusing art anger and disturbing grief from the Bristol punk band
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The sleeve for LCD Soundsystem's debut first single
Song of the Day: After our previous Eric B. and Rakim number, Know The Ledge, it's a different, double-edged song, and a debut by Brooklyn's James Murphy and co satirising the fear of not staying in vogue
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Cover of the 12inch version of Juice by Eric B. and Rakim
Song of the Day: After Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's The Message, another hip-hop classic, varying the topic around the edges of violence, but this track tells the tale of a young man who falls off it
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Get The Message ....
Song of the Day: Next episode on our edgy mood songs is one of the most influential of all time, a brilliant 1982 pioneering hip-hop number that captures the stress and flashpoints over inner city poverty in the Bronx
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An original single cover for Street Fighting Man (1968)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Fast Fuse by Kasabian, a track that also quickly fires up passions, and is highly influential – recorded 50 years ago during an unprecedented period of demonstrations and riots
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From the cover of Kasabian's West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Parquet Courts number about an edgy temper, another about inflammatory anger by the Leicester indie rockers from their 2009 album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
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Parquet Courts – Wide Awake in 2018
Song of the Day: Yesterday's Bodega song was a cri de coeur against passivity, today's by another great New York band is the opposite - capturing the reactionary side of our fractious times in a two-part number
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Bodega
Song of the Day: It's a question many ask in the current state of world affairs, but this terrific song by the New York band manages to pose political questions and still be enormously engaging in both music and lyrics
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Flat Worms: playing fast as greyhound
Song of the Day: After the exuberant joy of The Damned's New Rose, we move four decades forward to an equally blistering sound from the LA post-punk trio with a song that has a similar theme
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The early Damned: from left, Dave Vanian, Rat Scabies, Brian James and Captain Sensible
Song of the Day: Today let's go back to 1976, and one of the flowering moments of punk, with the first single by the London band, a declaration of love, perhaps not just for a girl, but for the music genre itself
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Louis XiV, featuring frontman Jason Hill (second from left)
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
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Arctic Monkeys in 2006
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
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The Strokes
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
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The Libertines in 2003
Song of the Day: Possibly the shining pinnacle of the indie rock quartet's repertoire this 2003 never appeared on an album, but a searing anthem to a refreshing new postpunk English sound
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I Monster
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
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Aldwyn Roberts, aka Lord Kitchener
Song of the Day: In the wake of the scandalous treatment of the Windrush immigrants by the current UK government, let's celebrate the work of a singer who appeared to write an 'optimistic' song from that 1948 first wave – but contained extra irony
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One of several sheet music versions of this popular song
Song of the Day: To mark the mixed weather of spring, let's turn back the clocks to offer out a bouquet, nay a spray, of various versions of this popular song written in 1921 by Louis Silvers with words by BG "Buddy" DeSylva
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Edith Piaf
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Lilac Wine by three great artists, a flower theme continuation with two more, written by the French star in 1945, released in 1947, and a classy interpretation the Jamaican in 1977
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