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Carole King - It's Too Late

A song of regret and disillusionment that cemented the Brooklyn singer-songwriter's status and sealed an entire era

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Spain / Josh Haden - Spiritual

The prayer of a dying man abandoned to his own solitude, the heart of soul beating within the cold body of slowcore

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Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin

The masterpiece of the Moody Blues, a unique and milestone synthesis of pop melody and the grandeur of the progressive rock to come

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Paolo Conte - Diavolo Rosso

The myth of the North-West told through the epic tale of Giovanni Gerbi

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Sun Kil Moon - I Watched The Film The Song Remains The Same

Mark Kozelek's poetic summa in a track that plays out like an existential biography

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Cloud Nothings - I’m Not Part Of Me

Cloud Nothings' here and now in one of the most incendiary tracks of 2014

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Neil Young - Cortez The Killer

Probably the most beautiful track in Neil Young's songbook, and one of the most moving guitar solos in all of rock. The Story Behind the Story of "Cortez The Killer"

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Flowered Up - Weekender

Saturday night hedonism and the pulse of summer in one of the most sensational tracks of the early-Nineties British scene

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Third Ear Band - Ghetto Raga

The "third ear" collective in its most monumental and cosmic prayer, in search of a universal language

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Big Star / Alex Chilton - Holocaust

Alex Chilton's abyss, the point of no return toward the darkest new wave: "Holocaust", one of those songs that literally hurts

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The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

The song that epitomizes the melancholic pop of Morrissey and Johnny Marr. More than a song, a miracle

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Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence

The duo's masterpiece that woke America from the intoxication of the '60s, unveiling the great chill of disillusionment, turns fifty

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The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet

One of the greatest post-punk anthems; one of those songs that, on its own, is worth ten, a hundred, a thousand careers

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Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

Gypsy violins and Celtic folk, northern soul and post-punk: the explosive blend concocted by Kevin Rowland & co. that blew up the charts worldwide in 1982

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Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star

The Juke-box lights up again for the Horn-Downes duo, known as Buggles, and the unsurpassed gem of retro-futurism, that ambiguous marriage of nostalgia and technology

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David Bowie - Where Are We Now?

The single that brought the Thin White Duke back into the spotlight after 10 years of silence

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Leonard Cohen - Sisters Of Mercy

Jukebox switched on for the bard-poet and his profound ode to love: the loftiest waltz between earthly delights and heavenly joys

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Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.

To mark the 40th anniversary of the album "Born In The Usa", we put the title track back on our jukebox, the Boss's most famous (and most misunderstood) hit

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Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun

We fire up our jukebox once more for a song/cover that became a legend, after a string of mysterious and incredible twists of fate

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World Party - Ship Of Fools

How can a pop song tackle environmental themes while staying light on its feet, evoking both Bob Dylan and a late-15th-century Bosch painting? Karl Wallinger managed it with "Ship Of Fools"

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Church - Under The Milky Way

How does a song work? This time, we rediscover a great classic of the 80s

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Gerry & The Pacemakers - You’ll Never Walk Alone

How does a song work? This time our column asks a different question: "What can a song give you?" You'll find out by listening to "You'll Never Walk Alone".