Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

'Fanfare For The Common Man' - EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER (Works (Volume 1) 1977). This double album comprised four sections, three highlighting one band member each, with the fourth featuring all three of them. This track was adapted - Keith Emerson (d 1

'Vagabond' - GREENSKEEPERS (Grand Theft Auto IV 2008). This track - Chicago's Nick Maurer, James Curd, Mark Share & Coban Rudish shot to infamy on 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV

'Set The Record Straight' - REEF (Getaway 2000). Jack Bessant and Gary Stringer formed Reef in Street (nr Glastonbury, Somerset), later joined - Kenwyn House and Dominic Greensmith

'Delta Rain' - THE BLESSING (Prince Of The Deep Water 1991). The London band were fronted - the peculiar vocals of their songwriter William Topley. The female voice here is the rather more impressive Rebecca Price

'Something Good' - UTAH SAINTS ( 1992). Released in May 1992, Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt sample Kate Bush's 'Cloudbusting'

'Bag It Up' - OASIS (Dig Out Your Soul 2008). Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, this is the seventh and final studio album - Noel Gallagher's Manchester rockers. By now, the band was Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Gem Archer and Andy Bell ...

'Little Things' - THE LOTTERY WINNERS (The Lottery Winners 2020). The Mancy crossovers started out in 2008 and are Thom Rylance (vcls, gtr), Robert Lally (gtr, vcls), Katie Lloyd (bass) and Joe Singleton (drms)

Only Happy When It Rains - NOUVEAU ARCADE (from 2023). Originally released in 1995 - Garbage, this song has been covered - many artists including Metallica. Now it's the run of Seattle's Kevin Preston and Len Hotrum

'Steel Claw' - PAUL BRADY (Full Moon 1984). Tina Turner also recorded this Brady song on her album 'Private Dancer'

'What You Told Me' - OUR GIRL (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 that

'Dustbowl' - ASHENMOON (Umbra 1 (EP) 2020). The L.A. band features bassist Garry Beers (a founding member of INXS), accomplished vocalist Toby Rand, and guitarist Jimmy Khoury

'The Rubettes' - THE AUTEURS (How I Learned To Love The Bootboys 2003). The Auteurs were largely the work of Surrey's Luke Haines (Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder)

'Fruitflies' - GALLUS ( 2022). Gallus are a five piece from Glasgow, here with an impressive debut aingle

'Babe I'm Gonna Leave You' - LED ZEPPELIN (Led Zeppelin I 1969). The acclaimed debut album from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham. Shown here is the original (very) limited sleeve with turquoise print. Peter Grant insisted on the

'Changeling' - SIMPLE MINDS (Real To Real Cacophony 1979). The Glasgow band's second album continued to show the influences of Sheffield's Cabaret Voltaire and Germany's Can and Kraftwerk

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

'Girls' - DWIGHT TWILLEY (Jungle 1984). Tulsa's Dwight Twilley and Phil Seymour met in 1967 after they had been to see The Beatles' film 'A Hard Day's Night'. They had one (U.S.) hit in 1975, 'I'm On Fire'. This was a Dwight Twilley solo album

'An Apple A Day' - LE HAMMOND INFERNO (My First Political Dance Album 2001). The sample used here - the Berlin wunderkinds is The Stone Roses' 'I Am The Resurrection'!

'You're So Pretty, We're So Pretty' - THE CHARLATANS (Wonderland 2001). Tim Burgess leads the Northwich musos (known in the USA as The Charlatans UK)

'A Trick Of The Tail' - GENESIS (A Trick Of The Tail 1976). Following Peter Gabriel's departure, this the first album to feature drummer Phil Collins as the new vocalist and front man, with Tony Phillips, Mike Rutherford, Steve Hackett & Tony Banks

'Telegram Sam' - T. REX ( 1972). Marc Bolan's London band released this on 21 Jan 1972. The band had shifted from the mad psychedelic Tyrannosaurus Rex into a successful glam pop/rock band until his death on 16 Sep 1977

'The Bitter End' - SLYDIGS (Never To Be Tamed 2012). The Warrington tunesmiths are produced - George Shilling (known for his work with Primal Scream and Ocean Colour Scene) and are favourites at Man Utd matchdays. They claim influences from The Rolling

'Sit Down' - FEET (Make It Up 2024). The Coventry band's protest song is described - lead singer George Haverson as 'the triumphant parking of your derriere is an active form of protest against our capitalist overlords'

747 - KENT (from Isola 1999). The Swedish band achieved widespread success at home, and a few indie accolades in the UK. This was their debut album

'Nice Guy Eddie' - SLEEPER (The It Girl 1996). The band started when Londoner Louise Jane Wener met Jon Stewart at a Manchester University philiosophy class. This is one of four hits from their second album. Wener is also a novelist and teaches at a Brig

'Beggarman' - SMOOVE AND TURRELL (Antique Soul 2009). Classy soul from Newcastle's Jonathan Scott Watson and John Turrell

'A Gentle Cycle Revolution' - APPLIANCE (Imperial Metric 2001). Veterans of the 2XS Barn Sessions, Exeter's Michael Parker, David Ireland (d 14 Feb 2017) and James Brooks

'Live It Well' - SWITCHFOOT (Where The Light Shines Through 2016). The San Diego rockers return with their best yet

'Cornflake Girl' - TORI AMOS (Under The Pink 1994). This was Myra Ellen Amos' second solo album. The world would have been a poorer place without her

'Run Like Hell' - PINK FLOYD (The Wall 1979). Released in November 1979, the band's 11th studio album was subsequently performed live with elaborate theatrical effects, and adapted into a feature film. The title single was #1 for 5 weeks over Christmas a

'Walking In The Wind' - TRAFFIC (When The Eagle Flies 1974). The band's final album (prior to their reunion LP 'Far from Home' in 1994) features Jim Capaldi (drums, keyboards and vocals), Rosko Gee (bass), Steve Winwood (guitar, keyboards, and vocals) an

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)

'Itchycoo Park' - SMALL FACES ( 1967). Released on 4 Aug 1967, the London likely lads go all psychedelic. Nice 'phasing' effect, guys

'Independence Day' - THE COMSAT ANGELS (Waiting For A Miracle 1980). The Comsat Angels formed in 1978 in Sheffield and featured Steve Fellows (vcls, gtr), Kevin Bacon (bass), Andy Peake (kybds) and Mic Glaisher (drms). With Jonathan Quarmby, Kevin Bacon

'You Oughta Know' - ALANIS MORISSETTE (Jagged Little Pill 1995). It was straight to the top for Ottawa's Alanis Nadine Morissette, and then horribly out of fashion. But still an impressive debut album

'Pretty Suspicious' - ALEXANDRA LEAVING (An Exorcise in Anger (EP) 2024). The Shropshire singer takes her inspiration from the rather wonderful Leonard Cohen song of the same name

'In My Time Of Dying' - LED ZEPPELIN (Physical Graffiti 1975). This was Zep's 6th (and first double) studio album

'Make It All Right' - THE OFFSPRING (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

'Gravity' - THE JASMINE MINKS ( 2019). The Aberdeen band have been firm local favourites since the 80s, and were the first band to be signed - Creation Records guru, Alan McGhee. They've now returned to delight us with this single

Watching Wax - BERRIES (from Berries 2024). The London fruits are Holly Carter (ld vcls/gtr), Lauren Cooper (bass) and Lexi Clark (drums). This is from their second album

'One Night' - THE GOO GOO DOLLS (Something For The Rest Of Us 2010). Four years after their last studio album, the 'Dolls are back with their 9th. The Buffalo, NY, band was formed in 1986 - Johnny Rzeznik, Robby Takac, George Tutuska & Mike Malinin

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

Chelsea Rose - ROCKHEAD (from Rockhead 1993). Vancouver's Bob Rock (Schneider) and Chris Taylor formed the band to create 'classic rock' with lead vocalist Steve Jack

'Need You No More' - CHAPPAQUA WRESTLING (Plus Ultra 2023). Brilliant effort - the Manchester based band (although members Charlie Woods and Jake Macleod are actually from Brighton). This is their debut album

'Sweetheart Contract' - MAGAZINE ( 1980). Bring on the punks, Howard Devoto and Pete Shelley. Martin Hannett produced the single, which just scraped into the charts at #54 in July 1980

'Susie Q' - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL (Creedence Clearwater Revival 1968). This excellent rendition of the Dale Hawkins classic is from the first album - John Fogerty's band