Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

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

'Inhale' - FM RODEO ( 2024). The nicely brooding band was formed in Texas in 2015 - Troy Dry (vcls. gtrs) and Johnny Elrod (drms). They're big fans of Green Day, Nirvana and Oasis

The Last Ride - JOHNNY MARR THE HEALERS (from Boomslang 2003). This was a limited edition debut single - the band which also featured Zak Starkey & Kula Shaker's Alonza Bevan. The album was released 2 years later

'You Don't Know How It Feels' - TOM PETTY (Wildflowers 1994). This was Petty's second solo album (following 1989's 'Full Moon Fever') and his first for Warner Bros. Records, for whom he had recorded as part of the Traveling Wilburys

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

'Stairway To Heaven' - LED ZEPPELIN (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 endur

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

'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

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

'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'

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

'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

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

'I Wanna Live' - IGGY POP (Naughty Little Doggie 1996). Bring on Mr James Newell Osterberg Jr, from Muskegon, Michigan

The Boys Of Summer - DON HENLEY (from 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

'Man With A Gun' - JERRY HARRISON ( 1990). The Talking Head's solo act was actually called 'Jerry Harrison: Casual Gods'

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

'If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You' by CARAVAN (If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You 1970). The Canterbury band's original title for this album was: 'Can't Be Long Now - Francoise - For Richard - Warlock'. So now y

Less I Try - LUDWIG HART (from 2023). Sweden's Ludwig Schollin played ice hockey until he was 18. He's since become a consummate singer and songwriter. This comes from his third album

'Naked' - REEF (Replenish 1995). Jack Bessant and Gary Stringer formed Reef in Street (nr Glastonbury, Somerset), later joined - Kenwyn House and Dominic Greensmith

'Audacious' - FRANZ FERDINAND (The Human Fear 2024). Ahead of their sixth studio album, Glasgow's FF release a single which Alex Kapranos says 'is about having an audacious response when you feel the fabric of existence come undone around you'

Space Is Deep - HAWKWIND (from Doremi Fasol Latido 1972). The rather fabulously mad spacemen included Lemmy, Dik Mik, Nik Turner, Doc Brok, Del Dettmar... and???

'Shock And Awe' - SWAMI JOHN REIS (All Of This Awaits You 2024). Also known as Speedo, the Swami, and Slasher, San Diego's John Reis was formerly the singer and guitarist with Rocket From The Crypt

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

'Demolition Man' - MANFRED MANN'S EARTH BAND (Somewhere In Afrika 1982). This is MM's cover of the Sting song, originally recorded - The Police

Take The Long Road And Walk It - THE MUSIC (from The Music 2002). The young Leeds came to prominence with this debut album. The superior of this song had been released as a single the previous year on Fierce Panda records

'A Song For Jeffrey' - JETHRO TULL ( 1968). Originally from the debut album - Ian Anderson's band, this is the original mono , released on 27 Sep 1968

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

'It Would Be So Nice' - PINK FLOYD ( 1967). Richard Wright's song was the band's fourth single

Gotta Get Some - THE BOLD (from 1966). The Massachusetts garage psychedelic band from Massachusetts formed in the mid 60's from the ashes of The Equires, and were also known as Steve Walker & The Bold.

'Pepper' - BUTTHOLE SURFERS (Electriclarryland 1996). Gabby Haines founded the experimental rock band with Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas, in 1981. This was their 'outrageous' single

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!

'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

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

'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)

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

'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

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

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

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)

'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

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

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

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