Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

'Immigrant Song' - LED ZEPPELIN (Led Zeppelin III 1970). The band's third album was released to yet more critical acclaim

The Seeker - THE WHO (from 1970). Bring on Roger, Pete, John & Keith: the 'Orrible 'Oo'

'Beautiful Day' - LAID BACK (Happy Dreamer 2005). Laid Back are Danes Tim Stahl and John Guldberg

'Drawing Rings Around The World' - SUPER FURRY ANIMALS (Rings Around The World 2001). Gruff Rhys's Cardiff indies just scraped into the UK Top 30 with this single, released on 1 Oct 2001

'Race With The Devil' - GIRLSCHOOL (Demolition 1980). This was a cover of the 1968 hit - Gun

'May I Comply' - HEARTWORMS ( 2024). Bring on London's Josephine 'Jojo' Orme

'Running From The Love Of Your Life' - MADRUGADA (Chimes At Midnight 2022). The Norwegians are Sivert Hoyem, Robert Buras and Frode Jacobsen. Their name is the Spanish poetic term for 'the hours before sunrise'

'Uncertain Smile' - THE THE (Soul Mining 1982). The debut The The album for Matt Johnson, who played and sang everything on this single (except Crispin Cioe's flute). The album version was a different recording and featured many session musicians

'Runaways' - THE KILLERS (Battle Born 2012). The fourth album from the band Brandon Richard Flowers started in Las Vegas in 2002

'The Hardest Cut' - SPOON (Lucifer On The Sofa 2022). Now on their tenth studio album, Austin's Britt Daniel and Jim Eno are now joined - Alex Fishcel, Gerardo Lanos and Ben Trokan. After their last 'dancey' album 'Hot Thoughts' (2017), they return to g

'Flying' - THE FACES (First Step 1970). Ronnie Wood wrote this track with Ten Years After's Alvin Lee after 'an acid trip called Sunshine'

'Waterfall' - JAMES (Hey Ma 2008). With the return of Tim Booth, this was James' first new album since 2001

'Long Way Down' - THE LOTTERY WINNERS (Anxiety Replacement Therapy 2023). The Mancy crossovers started out in 2008 and are Thom Rylance (vcls, gtr), Robert Lally (gtr, vcls), Katie Lloyd (bass) and Joe Singleton (drms)

'America' - YES ( 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'. A longer version was later included on the 'Yesterdays' compilation album in 1975

'This Wheel's On Fire' - SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (Through The Looking Glass 1987). Susan Janet Ballion was the daughter of a Belgian scientist and started her New Wave band with bass guitarist Steven Severin in 1976. This cover of the Bob Dylan and Ric

'Rollin' And Tumblin'' - BOB DYLAN (Modern Times 2006). Dylan's 32nd studio album was his third straight release to be met with nearly universal praise from fans and critics (following 'Time Out of Mind' and 'Love and Theft'). It continued its predecesso

'We Are The Stars' - WILD COHEN (Wildcohen 2015). We've long been a fan of Sheffield's Rob Cohen. He returns after a lengthy absence with some impressive new material

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

'Whippin' Piccadilly' - GOMEZ (Bring It On 1998). Southport's Ian Ball & Ben Ottewell formed the band in 1997. This was their debut album

'All She Wants To Do Is Dance' - DON HENLEY (Building The Perfect Beast 1984). The Eagles drummer Donald Hugh Henley produced some excellent solo music during the 80s and 90s. This was his second solo album

'All Day Long I Dream About Sex' - JC CHASEZ (Schizophrenic 2004). Joshua Scott Chasez was originally a vocalist in the US boy band, 'N Sync (with Justin Timberlake). This track from his debut album was written "after playing around with some old synths"

'City Lights' - THE WAEVE (City Lights 2024). This is the second album - Blur's Graham Coxon with Rose Elinor Dougall. They met at a bar in Islington in 2004

'Leader Of The Gang' - 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 based on the crimes o

'Soul Food Mother' - UNDERCUT (Something To Die For 2005). The Bristol band are 2XS Barn Session veterans and feature Sam Dyson, son of the Bagless James

'Glory Of The 80s' - TORI AMOS (To Venus And Back 1999). Myra Ellen Amos's fifth album was accompanied - a second live disc. The world would have been poorer without her

'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' - THE BEATLES (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967). The seminal eighth Beatles album came as psychedelia took hold and London was swinging! It propelled them towards 1968's double 'White Album'

'Misty Mountain Hop' - 4 NON BLONDES (Encomium: A Tribute To Led Zeppelin 1995). A 1995 tribute album, featuring Linda Perry's vocals. Encomium is a Latin word meaning the praise of a person or thing

'Behind Blue Eyes' - THE WHO (Who's Next 1971). One of the finest tracks from one of their finest albums

'Down By The River' - MILKY CHANCE (Sadnecessary 2014). Noel Gallagher's Ignition records releases an amazing debut single from the German duo of Clemens Rehbien (songs) and Phillipp Dauch (producer)

'Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)' - ROBERT PALMER (Secrets 1979). Yorkshire's Robert Allen Palmer was a veteran of Alan Bown's bands, Dada and Vinegar Joe (with Elkie Brooks). His love of soul music kicked off his solo career with Island Records

'Return To The Moon' - EL VY (Return To The Moon 2015). In case you think you've heard this wonderful baritone voice on 2XS before, you have. El Vy is Cincinnati's Matt Berninger (The National), with Brent Knopf (Menomena & Ramona Falls)

'Sinner' - 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 phenomenally exciti

'Long Way' - EDDIE VEDDER (Earthling 2022). The former Pearly One, Edward Louis Severson III, excels yet again. This is his third solo album, and he now seems to be firmly into his 'Tom Petty phase'

Speed Of Dark - EMILIANA TORRINI (from Tookah 2013). There is a more magical and mystical sound to Emiliana's sixth studio album. The use of a more 'electro' sound also brings a new dimension to her songs

'This Is Music' - THE VERVE (A Northern Soul 1995). This was the debut album - Richard Ashcroft's Wigan indies

'Let My People Go Go' - THE RAINMAKERS (The Rainmakers 1986). The Kansas City band was started in 1983 - Bob Walkenhorst. This was their debut album, and then their only UK hit single. Horror writer Stephen King was a fan and quoted their lyrics in his

'Burning' - YEAH YEAH YEAHS (Cool It Down 2022). New York's YYYs are led - Karen Orzolek's vocals, This is from their fifth album

'Skinty Fia' - FONTAINES D.C. (Skinty Fia 2022). Previously The Fontaines, this is the third album - the Dublin based band which comprises Grian Chatten (vcls), Conor Deegan (bass), Carlos O'Connell (gtr), Conor Curley (gtr), and Tom Coll (drms). The ba

'Ocean Of Night' - EDITORS (In Dream 2015). Tom Smith's band started in Birmingham in 2002 and were earlier known as Pilot, The Pride and Snowfield. This was their fifth studio album

'Everything' - THE DOLLYROTS (Daydream Explosion 2019). This is the seventh album - Luis Cabezas (gtr, vcls) and Kelly Ogden (bass, vcls), and follows the smash hit 'Whiplash Splash'

'Nightcall' - PHOENIX ( 2024). The Versailles trio of Thomas Croquet (aka Thomas Mars, vcls), Frederic Moulin (aka Deck D'Arcy, bass), and Christian Mazzalai (gtrs) started out in 1997. This single also features DJ Kavinsky (Vincent Pierre Claude Belorge

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