Ed Power and Roisin O’Connor pick their favourites. Dig that sound on the radio, Loudon III, a cult folkie in his own right, walked out on the family when Rufus was a child and the simmering resentments had lingered on. The album, a two disc set, reached #1 and is considered by many to be the group's best album. Few artists use surrealism as successfully as Kate Bush – or draw inspiration from such unusual places. hear him whip the women just around midnight, I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield, Recorded, goes the myth, in the darkest days of Bowie’s LA drug phase, the track is a magisterial eulogy for the Europe he had abandoned and which he would soon return to for his Berlin period. “And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills/ Till the landslide brought me down.”. Your mouth don't move but I can hear you speak.

EP, “She done it with a doctor on a helicopter/ She's sniffin in her tissue/ Sellin' the Big Issue.” There is shameless revisionism and then there is claiming that Noel Gallagher is a great lyricist.