Many good tracks on the debut Wet Leg album. This is possibly my favourite. Also the videos are clever, getting masses of style out of their budgets too.
This song is such a pillar of the end 80s thru 90s Madchester scene but endured beyond it sort of doesn't quite entirely fit in to my brain that people may have never heard it.
If an urn of my ashes, are getting scattered in to the waves before everyone goes for a good session in the pub, this song should probably be playing on whatever the equivalent of bluetooth speaker is at that point.
Beautiful upbeat, childlike but haunting folk track. This track feels like some of the leftover warmly comforting emotions of half remembered good memories from childhood, with the full meaning and detail somehow just fogged up beyond your grasp.
Not sure how else to persuade you to try this track if you don't know it. Another awesome export from NZ.
Trip hop legends Faithless blending a mass of influences, indie rock, trip hop, DnB in this track. Listen close and you catch the drum n bass flavours spicing the beats. RIP Maxi Jazz.
Often shortened to The Hip. Canadian staples, The Tragically Hip with +3decade career from mid 80s through to late 10s. About 15 albums / EPs to explore. RIP Gord Downie.
It's incredibly reductive to try & pick between the sheer amount of fantastic Dave Matthews Band tracks. Quite often they put together a lot of complex arrangements, syncopated rhythms, time signature & technical stuff going on in DMB, bit like many Sting tracks. DMB sounds great, it doesn't let the cleverness take over the listenability.
Crowd just swaying. Drinking in the notes, rhythm transfixed. They let you a moment's silence to breathe & there's this surge through the audience when they take it up again.
Playing the crowd as much as playing the instruments. So good live.
Replenish & Glow. Both superb 90s rock albums. Remember minidiscs? 1 of the tracks, probably off Replenish, was used for early minidisc adverts if I'm remembering right.
Wall of sound & check those vocals. This is the directors cut version.