#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 22 - From the 1980s The Cure Push The soaring outsiders anthem that’s something of a best-kept secret for Cure fans. youtu.be/kMjWcXVM558?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 22 Girls | Vomit This kitchen-sink live take of Girls’ gospel-powered magnum opus is real hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck stuff. It’s not often you see a backing singer get a standing ovation from the band, but it’s certainly deserved! 🔥🔥🔥 youtu.be/sLDk4SxbDRw?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 21 - A cover version The Bangles Going Down To Liverpool A tighter, janglier & sassier take on the Katrina & The Waves original. youtu.be/Zj7OJeyhq2Q?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 21 Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas | Instant Crush Controversial take: this is the best thing that either Daft Punk or Julian Casablancas have ever done. youtu.be/a5uQMwRMHcs?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 20 - A number in the title Sleaford Mods Stick In A Five And Go As much as anything else, this is very, very funny 🤣 youtu.be/Y7SkSPjPIkk?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 20 Chilly Gonzales & Jarvis Cocker | Tearjerker CG’s second appearance here & I happen to be in the Steel City today.This is exquisite, with not a note or word out of place. youtu.be/ohA0PAS1874?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 19 - From your favourite album* The Smiths Still Ill (Hatful Of Hollow version) The BBC session/live versions on this record, such as this, are insanely good. * with the usual caveat 😜 youtu.be/k8geJf18Lx0?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 19 Air | J’Ai Dormi Sous L’Eau The Premiers Symptomes EP served notice of the nonchalant brilliance which was to come. youtu.be/XgB-dbgcYWc?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 18 OMD | Electricity The first of a sensational run of singles. youtu.be/Y43XLVqjytQ?...

Happy 26th birthday to the extraordinary Figure 8 🎉 Possibly the most influential album in my musical life!

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 18 - 1990s Rialto Monday Morning 5.19 Arguably the great lost single of the Britpop era. youtu.be/V3Evmh8IiAY?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 17 Joanna Newsom | Soft As Chalk La Newsom takes to the piano for this playful highlight of a spectacular triple album. youtu.be/LM9FjL9wYxQ?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 17 - Day of the week in the title The Undertones Wednesday Week Short & (bitter)sweet. youtu.be/zIcgzwTHaHk?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 17 Depeche Mode | Leave In Silence Deliciously dark & atmospheric, my #1 DM tune (as promised, @billcanacci.bsky.social 👍). youtu.be/QE06bCEJd7Y?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 16 - Body part in the title The Rolling Stones Hand Of Fate An underrated zinger with Wayne Perkins on solo duty. youtu.be/3RGhtDjup38?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 16 Madness | The Sun & The Rain The title reflects the light & shade contained within. youtu.be/T_9FeMMlLZw?...

#SweetKeys #DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 15 - (brackets in the title) Elliott Smith | Pretty (Ugly Before) Considering the circumstances, this is an almost unbearably beautiful piece of music. For me, it’s Elliott Smith’s greatest track. youtu.be/yAf01cef70U?...

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#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 14 The Strokes | At The Door The atypical, synth-heavy first single from the unexpectedly sensational The New Abnormal. youtu.be/9CAz_vvsK9M?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 14 - A type of weather in the title The Cult Rain This never fails to excite & exhilarate. youtu.be/RD5b_0QB0wI?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 13 - 2000s Pet Shop Boys The Way It Used To Be The greatest single they never released. youtu.be/-W0WUpoug8U?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 13 Pet Shop Boys | The Theatre Obviously spoilt for choice with PSB, but gonna shout up this banger with a social conscience. youtu.be/dARuYgQPJBk?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 12 - Alliterative title Radiohead Decks Dark A thing of brooding, ominous beauty. youtu.be/Del3C2W63Pk?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 12 Orbital | Are You Alive? This deceptively luscious thing carries a darker message & ranks with Orbital’s best work. It sounds great in 🇫🇷 too. youtu.be/uSmOYCKMwps?...

"I'm just gonna say it, Fuck Trump" "I'd much rather everyone made music as opposed to going and beating the shit out of each other" — Hans Zimmer

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 11 - Over 7 minutes long Pink Floyd Dogs Some of Dave Gilmour’s most beautiful guitar work. The sky-scraping main riff appears, tantalisingly, only twice in seventeen minutes. youtu.be/jX5x9wzMN4s?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 11 John Phillips | Topanga Canyon Larry Knechtel of the legendary Wrecking Crew is listed as playing keys on this gorgeous-sounding tale of misdemeanour. youtu.be/bGUDpZLLO08?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 10 Guns N’ Roses | Estranged The equally epic, piano-laden UYI2 counterpart to UYI1’s November Rain. youtu.be/dpmAY059TTY?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 10 - A colour in the title Cocteau Twins Cherry-Coloured Funk Ref #2 in this list: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 9 - Band you’ve seen live the most Interpol* Pace Is The Trick And they’ve only ever played this, my favourite track of theirs, once. *I think youtu.be/S2fM0cVYRJA?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 9 The Cure | Play For Today An early crystallisation of their sound, with a subtle keyboard line which when played lived is transformed into something euphoric. youtu.be/H0AQ94lbi2Y?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 8 - From the 2010s Haim If I Could Change Your Mind A flawless pop record. youtu.be/Ljg6g7BAdQo?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 8 Manic Street Preachers | Empty Souls A monolith of austere grandiosity, the Manics’ own New Year’s Day. youtu.be/70nnDUVgwFU?...

“We are living in age where, extraordinarily, people can look upon billionaires as a friend of the common person and these are the people to fix our problems.” Writer and actor Mark Gatiss makes the case to Matt Chorley that the world is at risk of being “pushed into madness”. #Newsnight

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 7 - With ‘good’ or ‘bad’ in the title Christopher Owens No Good A jangly, squalling blast of catharsis to document a typical predicament from CO’s crazy & unconventional life. youtu.be/djWI-x7mKH0?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 7 The Rolling Stones | Jigsaw Puzzle Nicky Hopkins’ ebullient piano adds further colour to the magnificently wry band caricatures from 3:03. youtu.be/E8cJ1Wa6U3o?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 6 Happy Mondays | Country Song This short, bright burst of tumbling piano was my intro to the illogically brilliant world of these lawless Salfordians. youtu.be/u4uV_y8ehAo?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 6 - Used to hate but love now The Smiths Vicar In A Tutu Wouldn’t say I hated it exactly, but maybe the lyric made me think it was lightweight fluff & distracted me from appreciating the gilded touch of the guitar work. youtu.be/ke2nucbxP1E?...

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 5 - A place in the title Manic Street Preachers Cardiff Afterlife To my ears, the most beautiful thing they’ve ever done. youtu.be/W1u3ZKyMg0c?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 5 U2 | New Year’s Day The opening piano notes set an anthemic yet plaintive mood for the rest of the track, which is unquestionably one of U2’s best. youtu.be/jeYCyCaK_5k?...

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 4 - First track on an album Prince Sign ‘O’ The Times Truly iconic. Way, way ahead of its time. youtu.be/---ytDIIb1E?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 4 Tori Amos | Rattlesnakes This fantastic Lloyd Cole & The Commotions cover floats serenely on a layer of shimmering keys. youtu.be/J59Vj3eQPP0?...

He is vile and horrifying. A nightmare I would like to wake up from. Vote every republican out of office this year and let’s impeach him!!

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 3 - An animal in the title The Stone Roses Elephant Stone This & Sally Cinnamon were early indications of a band that were on to something special. youtu.be/IC-r-ZJN6Dw?...

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 3 The Orb | Little Fluffy Clouds Aural serotonin. youtu.be/KNfjpmvbQG0?...

"A state banquet? While he's bombing the hell out of Iran and people are dying all over the Middle East...?" David Dimbleby, journalist and presenter, argues against King Charles' planned state visit to the US in April. #Newsnight

#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 2 - From the 2020s (so far) They Might Be Giants Wu-Tang They’ve still got it!

#SweetKeys #MusicChallenge 2 Regina Spektor | Samson A tough call between this & Blue Lips. Both exhibit Regina’s fluent piano playing & her way with a lovely meandering melody. youtu.be/S9HuW6fvgy8?...