Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

'Don't Bang The Drum' - THE WATERBOYS (This Is The Sea 1985). This was the third album - Mike Scott's Edinburgh band

'Cortez The Killer' - NEIL YOUNG (Zuma 1975). Recorded with Crazy Horse in 1975, this was banned in Spain because of their sensitivity over the subject

'Walk In Circles' - GRANT LEE PHILLIPS (Widdershins 2018). Formerly the lead of the band Grant Lee Buffalo, this is the Nashville rocker's ninth album

Love Like A Man - TEN YEARS AFTER (from Cricklewood Green 1970). This was the fourth album - Nottingham's Alvin Lee & Leo Lyons

'Weak' - SKUNK ANANSIE (Paranoid And Sunburnt 1995). SA was formed in 1994 - Deborah Anne Dyer (Skin), Richard Lewis, Martin Kent, Robbie French & Mark Richardson. Their name is the mammal (skunk) and a Jamaican folk spider (anansie)

'Crocodile' - UNDERWORLD (Oblivion With Bells 2007). Rick and Karl returned with an album recorded over 5 years in hotel rooms around the world

'Spirits In The Night' - MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND (Nightingales & Bombers 1975). This was the first of several successful Springsteen covers for Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers, Chris Slade and Colin Pattenden

'America In Your 20s' - WINNETKA BOWLING LEAGUE (Sha La La 2024). Why the name? The L.A. band's leader Matthew Koma says 'I'm in a bowling league in Winnetka, called the Winnetka Bowling League. You can put the rest together.' So, there you go

'Catch Me If You Can' - ERIC CLAPTON (Another Ticket 1981). Guitar god Eric Patrick Clapton was born 30 March 1945. This was his last album for Polydor

'Devil's Daughter' - TAX THE HEAT (Fed To The Lions 2016). A stunning track from the Bristol band's debut album

'Hot Girls' - INXS (Switch 2007). twenty years, they were fronted - Michael Hutchence until he was found dead in his Sydney hotel room on 22 Nov 1997

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

'Listen To Your Father' - FEARGAL SHARKEY ( 1984). This version of the Carl Smyth song was the former Undertone's best solo effort. The sugar followed...

'Goin' Back To The Country' - THE MAGNETIC FIELDS (Love At The Bottom Of The Sea 2012). This is the 10th studio album - Stephin Merritt's Boston (USA) band. This sees a return to their use of synthesizers after duping them for the past three records

'Crucify' - TORI AMOS (Little Earthquakes 1992). Tori (Myra Ellen) Amos originally wrote this song for Al Stewart. The single was released in June 1992: the world would have been a poorer place with her

'It's Only Rock'n'roll (But I Like It)' - THE ROLLING STONES (It's Only Rock And Roll 1974). The band's 12th studio album was recorded between Nov 1973 and May 1974, and was the last to feature guitarist Mick Taylor. He was replaced - Ronnie Wood

'Are You A Souljah' - ALABAMA 3 (M.O.R. 2007). The Brixton Scots soulboys return with more caustic observations on Happy UK PLC

'Sabre Dance' - LOVE SCULPTURE ( 1968). Formed in 1966, Dave Edmunds' Cardiff rockers released just two albums. Their big single was this rock version of the classical composition - Khachachurian, released to great acclaim on 22 Nov 1968

'Not Strong Enough' - BOYGENIUS (The Record 2023). The U.S. Girlgenius' are Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, who met up after each being fans of the others' music. The is their debut album

Going In Circles - GIFT (from Illuminator 2024). Brooklyn's TJ Freda announces that 'the song is about the endless cycle of a relationship, the back and forth in both euphoria and doubt.'

'Dangerous' - WELSHLY ARMS (Wasted Words And Bad Decisions 2022). Although their name sounds like a pub, the band are actually from Cleveland (Ohio, USA). The five members are Sam Getz (ld gtr), Jimmy Weaver (bass, vcls), Mikey Gould (drms), Bri Bryant (

'Creep' - RADIOHEAD (Pablo Honey 1993). The debut album - Little Thom & chums: Colin Charles Greenwood, Edward John O'Brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood & Philip James Selway

'Girls Talk' - DAVE EDMUNDS ( 1979). This is the Cardiff rocker's cover of the Elvis Costello song. It was released on Led Zep's Swan Song label in May 1979

'The Mother Of All Fckers' - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (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

'Blind Man' - BLACK STONE CHERRY (Folklore And Superstition 2008). This was the second album from the Edmonton (Kentucky, USA) band: Chris Robertson, Ben Wells, Jon Lawhon & John Fred Young

'Bite' - 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

'Sweetest Lie' - 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

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

'Drops Of Jupiter' - TRAIN (Drops Of Jupiter 2001). This was the San Francisco band's 2nd studio album. Elton John's early arranger, Paul Buckmaster, does the impressive orchestral honours

'America' - YES (Yesterdays 1972). Released as a single almost everywhere except the UK, this Paul Simon cover also appeared on the 1972 sampler album 'The New Age of Atlantic'. This longer version was later included on the 'Yesterdays' compilation album

'Mr E's Beautiful Blues' - EELS (Daisies Of The Galaxy 2000). This 'hidden track' closed the third album from E (Mark Oliver Everett)

'Owner Of A Lonely Heart' - YES (90125 1983). The falsetto title refrain is sung - producer Trevor Horn (as well as Jon Anderson)

'Kashmir' - LED ZEPPELIN (Physical Graffiti 1975). This was Zep's 6th (and first double) studio album

'Hope Street' - THE LEVELLERS (Zeitgeist 1995). Bring on Brighton's most famous Travelling People

'Spectrum (Say My Name)' - FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE ( 2012). Florence Leontine Mary Welch and Isabella 'The Machine' Summers' music is described as like 'running downstairs trying not to fall over'

Real Wild Child (Wild One) - IGGY POP (from Blah Blah Blah 1986). This is based on 1958's 'Wild One' - Johnny Greenan, Johnny O'Keefe, and Dave Owens. DJ Tony Withers (later Tony Windsor of pirate Radio London) was credited with helping to get radio air

'Not Beautiful' - AUDIOGENE ( 2004). A brilliant song - the 2XS Barn Session veterans, John, Daniel, Joe and Chris. They'd been previously known as 'Bottlerocket', where their 'christian' bent had been more obvious

'Take Us Apart' - LUKE SLATER (Alright On Top 2002). This was the 5th solo album - the Reading electronic musician, DJ and record producer

'Beware Of The Clown' - THE DAMNED (Darkadelic 2023). Darkadelic is the twelfth studio album - the London punksters, the title of which recognises their 'influence as a pioneering goth band and interest in psychedelia'. This song is written - Raymond I

'Alabama' - NEIL YOUNG (Harvest 1972). Bob Dylan was a big fan of this album

'What Is And What Should Never Be' - LED ZEPPELIN (Led Zeppelin II 1969). The acclaimed second album from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

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