Piano hits first, bright and restless, before the guitars thicken and Gaz Coombes's vocal sings over a steady beat that does not copy Britpop. The English Ruse is track three on Matador, his second solo album, released 26.
Universally Speaking was already in the set at V Festival in August 2001, ten months before By the Way reached the shops, and it only became a single in Europe.
Badhead sits sixth on Parklife, the April 1994 Food Records album that settled Blur in the centre of Britpop. Stephen Street produced; John Smith engineered. Sessions ran at Maison Rouge in London from November 1993.
The Passenger is the open-road track on Iggy Pop's Lust For Life (1977). Ricky Gardiner's guitar turns in a circle while Pop looks out of a car at city lights.
Tom Snyder's 1978 conversation with Patti Smith catches her after Horses had already changed the New York rock scene and in the year of Easter, when Because the Night put her on the radio.
On 27 May 1977 Virgin released God Save the Queen, the Sex Pistols single the BBC banned in Jubilee week.
"Butterfly" closes Diamond Hoo Ha, the Supergrass album released on 24 March 2008, and Gaz Coombes has called it epic in a raw way.
The piano charges before the vocal arrives, and that rush is the pleasure of the track. Lovers in Japan, from Coldplay’s June 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, is built as a run: chords climbing, Will.
Track six on Matador, Needle's Eye tightens Gaz Coombes's 2015 solo writing into a leaner beat cut between Wheatley home sessions and Courtyard Studios.
The title track of Californication was the first song the band tried when John Frusciante returned, and it still took seven months to find the chord.
