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Residents - Six Things To A Cycle

The definitive soundtrack to the San Francisco band's vision of human devolution

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Cat Stevens - Foreigner Suite

A "minor" Cat Stevens classic reimagined "live" by the masterful pen of Carlo Massarini

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Soft Machine - Moon In June

From "Third", Robert Wyatt's astonishing on-record catharsis, in the last sung song in Soft Machine's history

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Japan - Nightporter

The portrait of the "night porter" by Sylvian & co., for one of new wave's most captivating ballads

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Madonna - Till Death Do Us Part

A raw, nerve-wracking tale of a painful breakup and the overwhelming therapeutic power of a pop song

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Visage - Fade To Grey

The apotheosis of the Blitz Club's new romantic season, courtesy of Steve Strange's supergroup and his immortal hit

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Primal Scream - Movin’ On Up

Hallucinations and transcendence open the Scottish band's great psychedelic trip

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David Sylvian-Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours

Inside the magic of the "forbidden colours" of the Sylvian-Sakamoto duo, in the theme for the film "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence"

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Véronique Chalot - Complainte de la blanche biche

With the Le Havre folksinger, rediscovering a scabrous murder ballad of medieval origin, among the oldest songs in the entire French tradition

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Greg Lake - I Believe In Father Christmas

Greg Lake, who passed away on December 7, 2016, is the author of, among other things, one of the most beautiful Christmas songs of all time

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The Undertones - Teenage Kicks

The legendary punk hit by the five lads from Derry, Northern Ireland, which became John Peel's all-time favorite song

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Red Crayola - War Sucks/ Free Form Freak-Out

The mocking cry against the cheap trappings of patriotism and the "beautiful death in war", in one of the most celebrated songs by the legendary Texan trio

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Faust - Krautrock

The great cosmic maelstrom, at once ecstatic and terrifying, of the most extreme cosmic couriers, and a manifesto-suite of Teutonic rock

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Chłopcy z Placu Broni - Kocham wolność

The gorgeous indie rock anthem hurled by listeners of Polish national radio against the far-right government that took power in 2015

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10,000 Maniacs - Can’t Ignore The Train

A concentrate of sweetness and melancholy in jangle-pop form. The track that opened "The Wishing Chair", the breakthrough album by Natalie Merchant & co.

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Brian Eno - Burning Airlines Give You So Much More

The key track of the non-musician and his "oblique strategies", but also an irresistible metaphysical novelty well worth hearing (again)

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Dion - Make The Woman Love Me

One of the most staggering and overlooked songs of the Seventies, credited to Dion and Phil Spector

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The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?

The forgotten hit of the "Madchester" scene, rediscovered and turned into an inescapable earworm at the dawn of the new millennium

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Daevid Allen & Gong - Flying Teapot

A few months after his passing, we revisit one of the key moments of the "Gnome Trilogy", masterwork of one of the greatest freaks in rock history: Daevid Allen

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Mercury Rev - Frittering

The aesthetic perfection of the great New York outfit's early lysergic days

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Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City

The Boss sings the end of the dream in an Atlantic City hotel room

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Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black

The Stones' legendary anthem of death and despair, stamped with Brian Jones's sitar

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Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The story of a magical song, born from a flash of inspiration by George Harrison and the fortunate involvement of Eric Clapton, initially "boycotted" by the band

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Roky Erickson - I Love The Living You

The genealogy of rock's burnt-out minds, traced through one of the sweetest songs ever written by the prophet of psychedelia