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England's dreaming …
Song of the Day: A title with a sneer, and all kinds of irony, one of three classics from the ultimate punk band is a tribute to Britishness and finger up the establishment, and never more appropriate than now
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Tom Waits – always in business
Song of the Day: After some sleep and dream songs, a lugubrious song by the inimitable raspy-voiced one is somewhere between surreal dream and nightmare, except it matches the chaos of recent events
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Suicide's Alan Vega and Martin Rev in 1979
Song of the Day: The dream goes on, but where might it lead next? Reaching into the power of nightmares and fantasies, an original by the US electro-punk duo of Alan Vega and Martin Rev from 1979 and two contrasting covers
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My Bloody Valentine in their earlier days
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
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From the cover of Bringing It All Back Home, Bob Dylan's fourth album (1965)
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
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Fiona Apple
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
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Debbie Harry. Dreaming is free, at least …
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
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Roy Orbison, a voice of majestic tragedy
Song of the Day: After Santo & Johnny's exquisite, dreamy melody, a song from the man Elvis Presley described has being the world's greatest singer, her with lovesickness that filters into the subconscious
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Serenely played - Santo and Johnny Farina
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
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From the album cover of The Soft Machine (1968), featuring Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and Mike Ratledge
Song of the Day: After yesterday's Ray Davies soaring sleep song performed by Marion, a more psychedelic take on different levels of consciousness by those Canterbury pioneers from their first album of 1968
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Marion Maerz
Song of the Day: After a recent run of German female solo artists and about seeking or not seeking solitude, a 1967 classic written by Ray Davies of the Kinks, and sung by Marion Maerz
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Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty
Song of the Day: After Nico delivering deliciously stone-cold world-weariness, lets turn to a different edge-of-existence song – with the extraordinary voice of Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty, from 2005's I Am A Bird Now album
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Nico. Teutonic stony sadness.
Song of the Day: After Sibylle Baier yesterday, a better known, but in her own way, equally mysterious German singer, best recognised in the Velvet Underground, but here from her own 1967 solo album, Chelsea Girl
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Sybille Baier
Song of the Day: In a stylistic continuity with yesterday's Judy Collins / Leonard Cohen tracks, a short, beautiful and fragile parting piece by the German singer who recorded this in the early 1970s but wasn't released for 35 years
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Judy Collins with Leonard Cohen
Song of the Day: After a couple of nun-related songs, let's turn two ethereal songs written by Leonard Cohen, but performed by the singer better known for covering Stephen Sondheim's Send In The Clowns
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Jake Thackray
Song of the Day: From yesterday's Ye Nuns, a gem from the Yorkshire chansonnier from his about a nun who wasn't really one, filled with playful, suggestive images and written in a mock-innocent style
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Ye Nuns
Song of the Day: After yesterday's songs about the beatified Joan of Arc, another Catholic and military connection, but with a twist – a cover band performing a new song written specially for them by a member of the band they cover
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Who is 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
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Suede in 1994
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
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The Auteurs, fronted by Luke Haines (left)
Song of the Day: After yesterday's track by Black Box Recorder, let's turn to a track by member Luke Haines, whose prolific output includes a wide variety of indie, new wave, and wistfully comedic songs
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