'Everyday' to me always sounds misplaced - piano-led ballad from the prime-stomp era.

Jam - English Rose - so embarrassed was Paul Weller, it was omitted from the track listing on the back of All Mod Cons

... to see what condition my condition was in

Which I believe was Kenny Rogers' first and only dalliance in psychedelic rock. But a fine record nonetheless.

Their deliberately "un-rock" stab at a debut single..

Both funky and genuinely good. Unlike them.

"Crazy Horses"

Divshare does not work for me - click on the track on this link

http://musiconvinyl.blogspot.com/2010/03/skies-limit-fleetwood-mac.html

"When The Hangover Strikes" - a slow ballad summarising a position we've all been in, except perhaps Hannah.

It's 1969. You're Mark Lindsay, leader of Paul Revere & The Raiders, the sort of group that has pretty much had its day. So you do a solo record, pitched at the currently flourishing MOR/ Easy Listening market. A cover of a Richard Harris album track written by Jimmy Webb. Very nice it is too.

At the same time you decide to revamp The Raiders. You come up with the sort of thing groups like Aerosmith will go on to make fortunes out of.

The trouble with hedging bets is that you never win big.

Michelle Shocked's album "Short Sharp shocked" is a pleasant collection of her languid East Texas folk tunes ... Until you get to the last track, which is "Fogtown" performed by Michelle and San Francisco hardcore punksters MDC, with the tune being thrashed to an inch of its life. Not bad.

So, you're a successful piano based trio, having had massive hits with up tempo singalongs, popular at festivals in particular.

How do you open your next album?

Obviously, with a 6 minute long intense song about paranoia, without a discernable chorus, programmed beats, looped keyboard and a video about a man with a bear who gets kicked in the knee by a small boy, directed by Irvin Welsh. Obviously.

I love the last track on Teenage Fanclub's Bandwagonesque but I don't think it sounds like TFC at all. I played it to a friend and he asked if it was Big Country (hmm, close ...)

Become this?

Hearing this on the radio, I knew that this was the familiar
ice-cold Gary Numan vocal but the dancey stuff, courtesy of the bloke from Shakatak (!), was very, very strange at the time.