Tracks - page 25

This b-side to ‘Ghost Town_ - one of two stellar songs accompanying the number one single, the other being ‘Friday Night, Saturday Morning_ - was written by Specials guitarist Lynval Golding after...

You have to go all the way back to Gene's début single Be My Light, Be My Guide for today's selection. I Can't Help Myself first appeared as a b-side to that excellent single.

In 1993, Bob Mould was in the middle of an early 90s purple patch of chart and critical success, that had started with the formation of Sugar and the album Copper Blue in 1992, continued...

Constructed around a series of shifting two-note patterns, Staircase is autological and inspired, and would have slotted in perfectly before or after Separator at the end of King of Limbs.

In rock, for some, there is tragedy piled upon adversity. Sub Sub started out with chart success as Sub Sub, with ‘Ain’t No Love (Ain’t No Use)’ reaching #3 in the singles chart, and ended...

Your ability to enjoy this cover of Love’s 1967 song Alone Again Or by The Boo Radleys in their early noisenik incarnation will be largely determined by which square of the Love and Boo Radleys...

Look, you can hardly start criticising The Smiths for not including Jeane on an album when its a-side, This Charming Man was a standalone single whose first album appearance was Hatful of Hollow. Not only...

Not a forgotten track by a long measure, given that it’s always been held in pretty high regard, but a b-side nonetheless. The Butterfly Collector was the flipside to 1979 single Strange Town, before going...

Never released in North America, This is Just a Modern Rock Song was Belle & Sebastian’s fourth EP, continuing their early tradition of supplementing albums with EPs of non-album tracks and new material. The title...

Erland & The Carnival’s list of band interests on their Facebook page: “Whiskey, bees, illustrations, old books”.

The third and final track in my interrupted overlooked horses trilogy. From wild to weird. The horses, that is. The song itself is a straightforward but thoroughly lovely Neil Young-esque acoustic strum of introspection:

Rarely has pain and hurt sounded so beautiful as with each soaring 'you like it' of Your Love is Killing Me. By the end any sense of the album as leisurely stroll or light emotional...

As already well documented around these parts, anticipation at Record Rewind Play HQ is high, and only increasing as the release date approaches for Conversations, the debut album by Woman’s Hour. With a month and...

Not only was I one day out with my Pulp post yesterday, but I also managed to mess up a pleasing horse-sequence I had lined up.

Originally released as the b-side to A Little Soul, Cocaine Socialism eventually wound up on a Pulp album when it was included in the re-issued and expanded This is Hardcore (Deluxe 2CD editon) in 2006....

‘High Diving Horses’ features the usual quiet fuming from Luke Haines, set to a searing guitar riff. The song appeared on the 10-inch single release of How Could I Be Wrong in 1993, and that...

As was the way with Suede during their fecund early years, ‘He’s Dead’ would have been good enough for most bands to include on an album, perhaps even release as a single; some would have...

An album doesn’t have to include a track of the same name. I knew that much. It had never occurred to me, though, that you might record an album, and give it the name -...

A lot of people will tell you that Driving Miss Daisy was the worst mistake the oscar judges ever made. Few can recall that Crash is, in fact, also a best picture winner. Many have...

The first surprise is that I’m posting an Oasis song. The second surprise is that it’s so soon in the month (rather than tucked away quietly somewhere in the middle, during those fallow days when...