Iggy Pop – Lust For Life
Four snare hits and the room jumps. Lust For Life, the title track of Iggy Pop's 1977 album with David Bowie, starts on Hunt Sales's drums before guitars and call-and-response vocals pile in.
Ramones – Rockaway Beach
Dee Dee Ramone wrote Rockaway Beach as a Beach Boys song about a Queens beach, and the Ramones cut it at Mediasound on 21 August 1977.
Coldplay – The Scientist
The piano figure is spare enough to feel unfinished, then Chris Martin sings the regret in plain English. The Scientist, from Coldplay’s August 2002 album A Rush of Blood to the Head, is an apology that wants the day.
Gaz Coombes – 20/20
Soft electronics and a half-swallowed vocal start the track. Then the drums thicken, guitars stack, and Gaz Coombes pushes toward a chorus that finally gets louder. 20/20 is the second song on Matador, released 26.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Give It Away
In the spring of 1991, at The Mansion in Los Angeles, Flea's bass line gave Anthony Kiedis a place to put a sentence Nina Hagen had handed him with a jacket.
Blur – Beetlebum
Beetlebum opens Blur's fifth album with a heavy, steady pace: muffled drums, Coxon's bent guitar lines, Albarn's vocal low and flat. Released as the lead single on 20 January 1997, it went to number one.
Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing
Nightclubbing is on Iggy Pop's The Idiot, released in March 1977. The drums take Gary Glitter's parade beat and play it colder. Bowie co-wrote the song.
Sex Pistols – Bodies
In August 1977 at Wessex Sound Studios, the Sex Pistols recorded Bodies with Sid Vicious on bass and Steve Jones doubling him.
Ramones – I Just Want to Have Something to Do
In the summer of 1978, Joey Ramone opened Road to Ruin with a medium-speed complaint cut at Mediasound, Marky Ramone's first album with the band.
Coldplay – Yellow
Look at the stars, look how they shine for you. The opening line of Yellow is also the origin story, and the line still states the song in plain words. During sessions for Parachutes at Rockfield Studios in.