Most popular songs in 2XS Rocks! playlist

'Dark Matter' - PEARL JAM (Dark Matter 2024). Eddie Vedder's Seattle heroes return with their twelfth album

Lights Out - KID VIOLET (from 2020). 2000s

'All My Love' - LED ZEPPELIN (In Through The Out Door 1979). The 8th studio album from Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and John Bonham

Barbaric - BLUR (from The Ballad Of Darren 2023). Now chums again, London's Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowntree present their ninth studio album

'Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)' - THE MOODY BLUES ( 1968). An early outing for Decca's 'progressive' label, Deram, this is the of the track from the album 'Days Of Future Passed' and followed the massive hit 'Nights In White Satin' fr

Love Is The Call - CAST (from Love You Like I Do 2024). John Power's Liverpool indies return, now signed to Alan McGhee and Creaton Records. They've proved themselves greater survivors than many had predicted and now present their seventh album

'Right Here Right Now' - JESUS JONES (Doubt 1991). The second album - the Wiltshire band which was started in 1986 - Mike Edwards, Jerry De Borg, Alan Doughty, Iain Baker & Tony Arthy. Unfortunately, they were early casualties of EMI's greedy takeover

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

'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

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

'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

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.'

'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

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

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

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

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

Stuck To Yous - THE BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE (from 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. This wo

'Cities in Dust' - GARBAGE ( 2023). The 90s indie darlings released this Sioxsie & The Banshees cover as track two on their single, 'Witness To Your Love'

'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

'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

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

'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'

'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

'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

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

'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)

'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

'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

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

'Fists Of Fury' - TERRORVISION (Good To Go 2001). Terrorvision began in Keighley as The Spoilt Bratz in 1986, led - vocalist Tony Wright. This was their final album

'Medicated Goo' - TRAFFIC (Last Exit 1969). Last Exit was the third album - Traffic. It was a collection of odds and sods put together - Island Records after the initial breakup of the band

'Coming Back To Me Good' - KASABIAN (Happenings 2024). Our Leicester chums return with their eighth studio album. At 28 minutes, it's their shortest so far... (good, or bad?)

Fizz - BLUSHING (from 2024). Recurrents

'You Little Thief' - FEARGAL SHARKEY (Feargal Sharkey 1986). The former Undertone goes a soft

'American English' - IDLEWILD (The Remote Part 2001). Roddy Woomble's Edinburgh band started out in 1995. They recorded a session for 2XS in 1997 and this was their3rd full album

'Headloss (live)' - CARAVAN (Live At The Fairfield Halls, 1974 1974). This was recorded live at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon on 1 Sep 1974

A Different Kind Of Tension - BUZZCOCKS (from A Different Kind Of Tension 1979). Bring on the punks, all signed to corporate EMI...

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

'Maggie May' - ROD STEWART (Every Picture Tells A Story 1971). Roderick David Stewart, CBE, featuring Scots blueswoman Maggie Bell

'Rockstar' - NICKELBACK (All The Right Reasons 2005). They've saved Canada: this album has sold 7 million so far...

Hypnotize - SCRITTI POLITTI (from Cupid & Psyche 85 1985). This was the second album from Cardiff's Paul Julian Strohmeyer (aka Green Gartside)'s band, formed in Leeds in 1977

'Favourite' - FONTAINES D.C. (Romance 2024). Previously The Fontaines, this is the fourth 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 band

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