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🌟🌟 Bonus - 12 Points 🌟🌟

Jimi Hendrix

Voodoo Chile

1968

Electric Ladyland

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God.

Immaculate, incomprehensible.

Robust angels around him - every fill, every flourish - but always returning to the omnipotence of that guitar.

The only rational explanation is voodoo.
August 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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2️⃣

🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

Paul McCartney

Maybe I’m Amazed

1970

McCartney

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He declined to release it as a single! That’s why!

You can feel the relief. Write an epic love song. Play everything. Stick guitar solos between everything. Have a false ending.

He’s the modern day Mozart.
August 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

Radiohead

Reckoner

2007

In Rainbows

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Ok, guitarists. Here are some maracas. I’ve got the rest.

For such masters of soundscapesmithery, this is so basic. A shit-load of percussion, simple plucks, and the mournful melody. Then a sunrise coda!

Heavenly.
August 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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4️⃣🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

New Order

Elegia

1985

Low Life

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Apparently, the Blue Monday bassline is a variation on Sergio Leone’s GBU theme. Well this takes the homage to that music box into overdrive. Epic in scope with some swirling counterpoint.

And no weird Barney vocals! 👌
August 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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5️⃣ 🌟 Bonus - 11 Points 🌟

David Bowie

Moonage Daydream

1972

Ziggy Stardust…

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I’m an alligator!

Yes, David. Of course you are.

I can’t put my finger on precisely why I love this so much. Its nonsense. It’s universal. It’s exciting. It’s melancholy. It’s fun. It’s MY Bowie song.
August 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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The Beatles

Golden Slumbers

1969

Abbey Road

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A melodic McCartney masterclass.

Often derided for his twee, romantic sensibilities, he’s even written ‘Silly Love Songs’ “…and what’s wrong with that?”

Love is.. to inspire sweet dreams. And love is the best thing we humans do ❤️
August 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Interpol

The New

2002

Turn on the Bright Lights

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My favourite song structure:

Pretty, melodic, lullaby introduction. Darker, propulsive exposition. Ultimate discordant recapitulation. Then bring it back with a malevolent, imploding coda.

These guys execute it perfectly. 🖤❤️
August 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Bill Withers

Let me in your Life

1972

Still Bill

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Such a simple love song. Handled by my favourite male voice. He’s properly underrated.
August 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Queens of the Stone Age

In the Fade

2000

Rated R

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Another art form perfected. In this case, Desert Rock.

The extended grunge riff of the chorus, the unfussy, melodic fills, all contrasted with the fragile, desolate verses.

And then some nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, etc….
August 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Nick Drake

Way to Blue

1969

Five Leaves Left

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His calming voice is so suited to his acoustic pluck. So when it is contrasted with the baroque, processional of the string quartet, the spotlight accentuates the strength in his calmness.

Disconcertingly gorgeous.
August 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Radiohead

Let Down

1997

OK Computer

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The sleeper highlight of OKC?

First packed between the devastating and the monumental, it initially seemed like a soothing palette cleanser. But it is so fucking clever. Weird time signatures, early cadences,

I’m out of space..

Euphoria.
August 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Massive Attack

Man Next Door

1998

Mezzanine

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On an album which absorbs light, this is possibly its most threatening track. Horace’s angelic clarity pierces through the murk of fear of unnamed, fussy, fighty men

And HM to the similarly foreboding Cure sample 👌
August 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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1️⃣3️⃣

Jeff Buckley

Morning Theft

1998

Sketches for my Sweetheart the Drunk

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Oh, what could have been

💔
August 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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1️⃣4️⃣

Pearl Jam

Black

1991

Ten

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An atmospheric track becomes transcendent with that line….

I know someday you’ll have beautiful life
I know you’ll be a star
In somebody else’s sky
But why, why, why
Can’t it be
Cant it be mine

And then the du-du-duh-duh du-du-duh outro…

RIP Vicky 🖤
August 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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1️⃣6️⃣

Pixies

Gouge Away

1989

Doolittle

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Ok, fellow Pixies. For this album’s closer, what we will do is perfect the quiet-loud artform, invent a thousand bands, and create the scene for the next decade. Oh, and make it biblical.
August 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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1️⃣6️⃣

Damien Rice

I Remember

2002

O

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The battle of the sexes’ relationship memories

Lisa tells of how her head’s gone and ships had sailed at the mere sight of his wet hair…. Damien grizzles guilt at God and porn

They both just need a good ‘O’
August 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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1️⃣7️⃣

Smashing Pumpkins

Here is no Why

1995

Mellon Collie….

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Dante used ‘Terza Rima’; Billy uses cadence rolls. Even the base chord is a fragile 7th. This track doesn’t settle or resolve until all fireworks popping off before a final rallentando roll to the end.

Air guitar heaven!
August 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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1️⃣8️⃣

Jimi Hendrix

1983 (…a Merman I should turn to be)

1968

Electric Ladyland

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A 13-minute history of the world. Everything just takes its time ebbing and flowing between that simple, languorous figure until it all falls off a cliff into an extinction burst

I don’t comprehend Jimi…❤️
August 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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1️⃣9️⃣

Wedding Present

Heather

1991

Seamonsters

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Small and perfectly formed. The greatest songwriter of the generation. I mean, this beats a Radiohead track!! Which is PROPER music.

And this album is perfection. 🖤
August 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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2️⃣0️⃣

Radiohead

The National Anthem

2000

Kid A

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Finally…. The last of my hattrick heroes to appear. I could easily have picked a track (or two) off each album for this challenge. They are wonderful.

The constancy of the grimy bass riff while everything else goes a bit turbo
August 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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2️⃣1️⃣

Jeff Buckley

Eternal Life

1994

Grace

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The track that taught me how to play the guitar! And there are some cracking live versions out there that morph into Kick out the Jamms

Ayyyyyyyyyn-geeeeeeeel
August 6, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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2️⃣2️⃣

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Dull Life

2099

It’s Blitz

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Every challenge, there is a track that is on the peripheries and then leaps and bounds itself up the rankings. See: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, 1 Thing, Manhattan Skyline.

Welcome to a cracking club!
August 4, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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2️⃣3️⃣

Pixies

Hey

1989

Doolittle

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Lots of whores and grunts surrounding one of the most perfectly simple guitar solos
August 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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2️⃣4️⃣

Talk Talk

Inheritence

1988

Spirit of Eden

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My pick from the most unpickapartable album. The backing is sparse but intricate. But here, Mark allows his vocals to soar.
August 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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2️⃣5️⃣

Taylor Swift

Maroon

2022

Midnights

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Start the second half as we started the first….. TayTay!

The minimalism? The breathlessness? The tricky little couplets? I don’t know what it was precisely, but it made me realise - Damn. She is really rather good. ❤️
August 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM