Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

The Narcissist - BLUR (from The Ballad Of Darren 2023). Now chums again, London's Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree present their ninth studio album

Magic Bus - SWERVEDRIVER (from Daytripper (O.S.T.) 1997). This cover of The Who classic is from the 1997 snowboarding movie 'Daytripper'

Run Against Traffic - THE AMAZING PILOTS (from Run Against Traffic 2002). The Coleraine (NI) band were brothers Paul & Phil Wilkinson, with Jono Samuel & Tim Millen

I Feel Free - CREAM (from 1966). Released on the Reaction label, this was the band's 2nd single in Dec 1966, and not included on the 'Fresh Cream' album as it was in the USA

Love Steals Us From Loneliness - IDLEWILD (from Warnings/Promises 2005). Roddy Woomble's Edinburgh band started out in 1995. They recorded a session for 2XS in 1997 and this was their 4th full album

The Recogniser by TERRA TWIN (from 2024). The London indie-rockers follow their debut EP 'Head Leaking' with this - and it's another pretty impressive effort

Confirmation - WESTERMAN (from 2018). London's Will Westerman produces a solo version of 'Steely Dan for the new century'. Nice

Fell Into - JACKSON UNITED (from Western Ballads 2004). This was the second album - the band led - Foo Fighters guitarist, Chris Shiflett

Safety Dance - MEN WITHOUT HATS (from Rhythm Of Youth 1982). The Montrealians' only hit featured a video filmed in the village of West Kington, near Bath, with the Chippenham Town Morris with band member Ivan Doroschuk, who wrote the song

Ain't No Easy Way - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB (from Howl 2005). Bring on San Francisco's Peter Hayes, Robert Turner & Nick Jago with their third album

It's All Too Much - THE BEATLES (from Yellow Submarine (O.S.T.) 1969). The band's 10th studio album comprised only one side of Beatles songs, of which four were original. The second side features the symphonic film score composed - George Martin, in ver

Stuck In The Middle - STEALERS WHEEL (from Stealers Wheel 1973). From the debut album - Gerry Rafferty and Joe Egan, this was a hit for a second time in the 90s after inclusion in the soundtrack of 'Reservoir Dogs'

I'll Keep Holding On - THE ACTION (from 1966). The freakbeat band was originally formed as The Boys in Kentish Town, London. Produced at George Martin's A.I.R. Studios, this was released on 11 Feb 1966

Going To California - LED ZEPPELIN (from Led Zeppelin IV 1971). The acclaimed fourth album from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham is known also as Four Signs, Four Symbols, ZoSo, Runes, and Untitled. It is regarded as their most e

Step By Step - CLOSE TO MONDAY (from Interference 2021). The band say this song is about "is about searching for harmony in the world of unrest"

Tusk - CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN (from Tusk 2003). David Lowery, Victor Krummenacher & Greg Lisher parody (or pay tribute to) the entire Fleetwood Mac album

Draggin' The Line - TOMMY JAMES (from 1971). The Ohio rocker was best known as leader of his group The Shondells ('Hanky Panky', 'Crimson & Clover, etc). This was a laudible rock crossover

Lovecraft - DR MONIKA DEMMLER (from Princess 2022). Berlin's Dr. Monika Demmler (PhD) combines the quirkiness of Wet Leg coupled with the plain rock of The Hives. She describes this album as 'a feline mix of krautrock, shoegaze, punk', and specialises in

A Wish Away - THE WONDER STUFF (from 1988). 1980s

Bitter Sweet Symphony - THE VERVE (from Urban Hymns 1997). And made all the more Bittersweet - Andrew Loog Oldham taking them to the cleaners. This is from a 12' promo album of mixes

Nadine (Is It You) - CHUCK BERRY (from 1964). The great rock&roller, Charles Edward Anderson Berry, was born 1926 in St Louis, Missourri, and died on 18 Mar 2017. This track also features the equally fabulous Willie Dixon on bass. This was released in F

Walk Idiot Walk - THE HIVES (from Tyrannosaurus Hives 2004). This is the third album - the Swedish garage punksters

Run Run Run - THE THIRD RAIL (from 1967). 1960s

Kiss Them For Me - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (from Superstition 1991). Susan Janet Ballion was the daughter of a Belgian scientist and started her New Wave band with bass guitarist Steven Severin in 1976

The Age Of No Opinion - SPOON SPEAKER MAN (from The Age Of No Opinion 2024). SSM are frontman Craig Walker (Power Of Dreams, Archive) and Dan Worton (Ned's Atomic Dustbin). In this song they are exploring the effects of modern media on our judgement

Fashion - DAVID BOWIE (from Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) 1980). Bring on Brixton's Mr David Robert Jones

Gloria - SIMPLE MINDS (from Neon Lights 2001). This was Jim Kerr and his mates' tribute album to their favourite songs, in this case the song made famous - Van Morrison and Them

Ship Of Fools - WORLD PARTY (from Private Revolution 1986). The band was started in 1985 after Karl Wallinger left The Waterboys. The name reflects Wallinger's radical green politics. KW died on 10 Mar 2024

Mister Kingdom by ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA (from Eldorado - A Symphony By The Electric Light Orchestra 1974). The band's fourth album was possibly their most under-rated. Aftet this, they became a more mainstream pop-rock band - and more succcessful, too!

There's A Reason Why (I Never Returned Your Calls) - BLOSSOMS (from Cool Like You 2018). Tom Ogden's Stockport band is an 'alliance of best friends, all born in the same hospital, Stepping Hill'. This is their second album

Slow Down Low - MOON DUO (from Shadow Of The Sun 2015). The San Francisco band is a side project for Ripley Johnson of the rather wonderful Wooden Shjips, and are now based in Portland (USA)

Here Comes The Night - THEM (from 1964). Van Morrison led the seminal Belfast rockers

Sonnentanz - KLANGKARUSSELL (from 2013). Adrian Held and Tobias Rieser are from Saltzburg and want 'to bring sunshine to the world'

Lights Out - KID VIOLET (from 2020). 2000s

Love Is The Call - CAST (from Love You Like I Do 2024). John Power's Liverpool indies return, now signed to Alan McGhee and Creaton Records. They've proved themselves greater survivors than many had predicted and now present their seventh album

Send Me An Omen - THE MAGPIE SALUTE (from High Water 1 2018). The U.S. band was put together - Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson, with vocalist John Hogg, Marc Ford, Sven Pipien, Hookah Brown, Matt Slocum and Joe Magistro. Their name is taken from a

Dizz Knee Land - DADA (from Puzzle 1992). A worldwide hit from the Californian band's debut album

Stuck To Yous - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (from The Future Is Your Past 2023). Anton Newcombe started the BJM in San Francisco in the early 90s. The name is a mix of Stones' guitarist Brian Jones and the mass cult suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. This wo

Bean Fields - SHANNON AND THE CLAMS (from The Moon Is In The Wrong Place 2024). Shannon Shaw wrote this song after the death of her fiancee outside his family farm in Oregon

Make It All Right - THE OFFSPRING (from Supercharged 2024). Following 2021's 'Let The Bad Times Roll', Dexter Holland's band rolls on. The female voice here is Canadian actress, Rebecca Shoichet

All For Nothing - KENSINGTON (from Rivals 2014). The Utrecht foursome are vocalist Eloi Youssef, with Casper Starreveld, Jan Haker & Niles Vandenberg

Fizz - BLUSHING (from 2024). Recurrents

A Different Kind Of Tension - BUZZCOCKS (from A Different Kind Of Tension 1979). Bring on the punks, all signed to corporate EMI...

Hypnotize - SCRITTI POLITTI (from Cupid & Psyche 85 1985). This was the second album from Cardiff's Paul Julian Strohmeyer (aka Green Gartside)'s band, formed in Leeds in 1977

5.15 - THE WHO (from Quadrophenia 1973). The seminal film soundtrack written - Pete Townshend

Mess It Up - THE ROLLING STONES (from 2023). 2000s

Runaway - KEYSIDE (from 2024). Playlist

Killer - VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR (from 1970). ProgRock

The Whale - SUE THE NIGHT (from Mosaic 2015). Sue The Night is the stage moniker of Dutch artist Suus de Groot

What You Told Me - OUR GIRL (from The Good Kind 2024). The Brighton trio are Soph Nathan (gtrs, vcls), Josh Tyler (bass) and Lauren Wilson (drms). Nathan tell us that 'this song's about seeing illness affect someone I love. It's about the heartbreak in t