Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

'Victoria' - THE KINKS (Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire) 1969). Released on 5 Dec 1969, ands covered in 1988 - The Fall, this was a hit single from The Kinks' seventh studio album. The story - Ray Davies was a concept album soundt

'Cutt Off' - KASABIAN (Kasabian 2004). Tom Meighan, Sergio Pizzorno, Chris Edwards, Ian Matthews put Leicester firmly back on the music map. This was the 4th single from their eponymous debut album

'Say You Love Me' - FLEETWOOD MAC ( 1976). Released on 8 Oct 1976, this is the of the song from their first U.S. album, with the band now newly augmented - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. Christine McVie wrote and sings this song. Sh

'Waterfall' - THE STONE ROSES (The Stone Roses 1989). Bring on Madchester's Gary Mounfield, John Squire, Ian Brown & Alan Wren with their debut album

'Chaise Longue' - WET LEG (Wet Leg 2022). It's a lot less boring on the Isle Of Wight than you may think. Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers decided to start a band while they were at the top of a ferris wheel and named themselves after the epithet for n

'Unwashed And Somewhat Slightly Dazed' - DAVID BOWIE (Space Oddity 1969). Originally releeased on 14 Nov 1969, this was essentially an early compilation album, riding on the success of the epoymous title track. This is the 2015 remaster

'A Question Of Temperature' - THE BALLOON FARM ( 1967). The first of two singles - the New Jersey band, each member of which had earlier adopted the name Adam...

'John Lennon' - THE OUTFIELD (Diamond Days 1991). A gem of an album - Tony Lewis (vcls, bass) and John Spinks (gtr, kybds, songs), with Simon Dawson (drms)

'Moving On' - RARE AMERICANS (You’re Not a Bad Person, It’s Just a Bad World 2022). The unusual yanks ('cos they're from Vancouver!) have been at it since 2018 when brothers James and Jared Priestner 'took an impromptu trip to the Caribbean', like yo

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

'Rat Trap' - BOOMTOWN RATS (A Tonic For The Troops 1978). The Dun Laoghaire band were Saint Zenon Geldof, Johnnie Fingers, Simon Crowe, Pete Briquette, Gerry Cott & Garry Roberts. From their second album, this single was released on 6 Oct 1978

'Cut Some Rug' - THE BLUETONES (Expecting To Fly 1996). Who remembers the '90s indie scene then? This was the Hounslow band's debut allbum

'Jabse Dekha Hai' by CORNERSHOP (Disco's Main Squeeze (EP) 2023). Cornershop's Tjinder Singh gets it on - again. This is fronted by Pinky Ann Rihal (aka Harry Rihal and Jati Sodhi). Can we hear a resemblance to Albert Hammond's 'Free Eleectric Band'?

'Push Back' - THE GENTLEMEN (A Candid History Of Faith, Hope, Love 2009). The third single from the Sheffield band's album 'A Candid History Of Faith, Hope, Love'

'Love Story' - JETHRO TULL ( 1968). Released on 29 Nov 1968, this single - Ian Anderson's band also featured Mick Abrahams, who then split to form Blodwyn Pig

'Cowgirl In The Sand' - NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE (Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969). This was Neil Young's second solo album and his first with backing band Crazy Horse

'Walk On Water' - THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS (America 2017). The L.A. band's leader, Jared Leto, described this first single from their 5th album an "ever so subtle and minimalist ode"

'Last Goodbye' - JEFF BUCKLEY (Grace 1994). Jeff Buckley died on 29 May 1997, aged 30, and was the son of Tim Buckley, who had died in 1975, aged 28. This was his only complete studio album

'Back In The Night' - DR. FEELGOOD (Malpractice 1975). The second album - Wilko Johnson. Lee Brilleaux & Canvey Island chums. Johnson died on 21 Nov 2022 at the age of 75

'Pontius Pilate's Home Movies' - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS (Continue As A Guest 2023). Carl Newman keeps things fresh on the Canadian band's ninth album

'Fake It' - SEETHER (Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces 2007). The South African noistrels are led - Shaun Morgan and were formed in Pretoria in 1999

'Black And White Town' - DOVES (Some Cities 2005). Wilmslow's Jez & Andy Williams and Jim Goodwin form the highly respected indie trio, who got together after meeting at The Hacienda in Manchester

'Space Age Love Song' - A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS (A Flock Of Seagulls 1982). From Liverpool, Michael Score's band took their name from a line in 'Toiler On The Sea' - The Stranglers

'Ready 2 Wear' - FELIX DA HOUSECAT (Devin Dazzle & The Neon Fever 2004). From the man who 'accidentally' invented ElectroClash, Chicago's Felix Stallings

'Call Of The Wild' - JACK J HUTCHINSON (The Hammer Falls 2022). Born in Leicester, Hutchinson spent his formative years in Burnley before moving to London. He recorded this album in Brazil, and it follows his debut in 2013. That's the end of the geograph

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

'Take A Picture' - FILTER (Title Of Record 1999). This was the second studio album - the former Nine Inch Nailse Inch Nails player Richard Patrick's Cleveland (USA) band

'Dusty' - SOUNDGARDEN ( 1996). As one of the first bands to record for the legendary Sub Pop Records, Seattle's Soundgarden is generally regarded as one of the founding fathers of grunge. Released on 16 Dec 1996, this is the Moby mix of the track origina

'The Feminine Urge' - THE LAST DINNER PARTY (Prelude To Ecstasy 2024). The South London fivesome are Abigail Morris (vcls), Georgia Davies (bass), Lizzie Mayland (gtr), Aurora Nishevci (keys), and Emily Roberts (ld gtr). They are described as 'a phenomen

'Doing It Right' - THE GO! TEAM (Proof Of Youth 2007). From the Brighton band's 2nd album, released Sep 2007. They take their name from that given to the guys who survey plane crash wreckage in the USA (NTSB Air Accident Investigators)

'Europe After The Rain' - JOHN FOXX (The Garden 1981). One of several defining tracks - Chorley's Dennis Leigh after he left Ultravox, to be replaced - Midge Ure

'Astounded (ft Curtis Mayfield)' - BRAN VAN 3000 (Discosis 2001). The Montreal 'Drinking In L.A.' band approached Curtis to sing this song but he was too ill. Instead, he allowed the use of an existing 'Move On Up' accapella, and died eight weeks later

'Keep The Faith' - BON JOVI (Keep The Faith 1992). The New Jersey band started out in 1983 around the nucleus of lead singer John Francis Bongiovi and guitarist Richie Sambora. This was their fifth album

'I Keep Singing That Same Old Song' - HEAVY JELLY ( 1968). Colin Gibson's Heavy Jelly evolved from Skip Bifferty and at one time included Apple records (brief) star, Jackie Lomax

'Fuzz Jam' - THE LAZY EYES (SongBook 2022). The Sydney band are Harvey Karate (vcls, gtr, kybds), Itay Sasha (vcls, gtr), Leon Karagic (bass) and Noah Martin (drms). This was one of THE best singles of 2022

'Virginia Plain' - ROXY MUSIC ( 1972). Although originally a single only, this was included on later releases of the album 'Roxy Music'. It was produced - Pete Sinfield

'The Mask' - ROGER GLOVER ( 1984). Brecon's Roger David Glover is best remembered as the bassist for Deep Purple and their forerunners, Episode Six. He released this single in April 1984

'In The City' - EAGLES (The Long Run 1979). Originally going to be a double album but reduced to a single, this was the last No 1 LP of the 70s in the USA

'Brooklyn Girls' - THE SKULLERS (Freight Trains & Party Games (EP) 2019). The New Jersey rockers are led - New Yorker Jack Skuller, who's been writing songs since he as 8. He's now quite good at it!

'Lucky Guy' - GUN (Hombres 2024). The Glasgow band who, we are pleased to say, never go away! Originally called Blind Alleez, vocalist Mark Rankin is a cousin of Texas' Sharleen Spiteri

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

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