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"I'd work very hard, but I'm lazy, I've got a lot of songs but they're all in my head. I'll get a guitar and a lov...

"And oh if you stay, I'll chase the rainblown fields away. We'll shine like the morning and sin in the sun." Like The S...

Here's a taster for what's coming next...

"I was born as a pantomime horse, ugly as the sun when he falls to the floor." Suede always seemed an odd choice for poster boys...

Let's take another trip down Brit-pop memory lane. Elastica: certainly not the most original band to ever grace a stage, but they were p...

"I met him in a crowded room where people go to drink away their gloom. He sat me down and so began the story of a charmless man....

In their early incarnation with Bernard Butler on guitar, Suede were one hell of an impressive band.

Viddy well brothers, viddy well! Oh yes, and there's a massive Blur post in the works too :)

In its heyday, this band put its contemporaries to shame, and yes, this includes Radiohead, Blur, Pulp, etc. Verve live was nothing less tha...

"You only have to read the lines; they're scribbley black and everything shines." While there had already been a burgeoning ...

A great clip from an extremely underrated Australian Mod-Beat Garage-Rock band: The Easybeats

"And the train rushes past like a day gone too fast." While My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is considered, in most quarters...

"And when I see you sliding past, I make my plans, and then my plans slip through my fingers just like sand." While My Bloody Va...

"He spits in the sky. It falls in his eye, and then he gets to sitting, talking to his kitten." Misanthropy can be a compelling ...

"Because the music that they constantly play, it says nothing to me about my life." Louder Than Bombs , originally a U.S.-only h...

"Let's conjure up a day of beauty, fulfill our tender duties." After the demise of Fun Boy Three, a strange and occasionally...

"In a garden in the house of love, sitting lonely on a plastic chair, sun is cruel when he hides away. I need a sister, I'll just ...

Sure, they're lip-syncing, it is TOTPs after all, but live XTC is live XTC! A rare thing indeed!

"I can watch and not take part, where I end and where you start." In the early noughties, it appeared that Radiohead had painted...

"It's time the tale were told of how you took a child and you made him old." Simply put, The Smiths were the most important ...