Goat: Let it Burn: 2021. Perfect ten.
Velvet Underground: All Tomorrow's Parties (Live): 1966. Some magnetic footage. Also, for those not familiar with the "Unripened" versions, check this out. It's the CD with the green banana on the cover.
Johnny Marr: Walk Into The Sea: 2018. Amazing track.
The Stranglers: Five Minutes: 1978. Non-album single.
The Killers: For Reasons Unknown: 2006. My favorite Killers track.
Kasabian: Hippie Sunshine. 2025.
Plexi: Forest Ranger: 1996. Los Angeles.
Curve: Horror Head. 1992. This record came out after My Bloody Valentine, but before The Verve. I saw them at the Hollywood Athletic Club some time in the mid 90s, and they were really good.Their 2001 album "Gift" was solid. Their tracks sounded awesome in the clubs, but they never quite made it over the top. And yet, they were as memorable as they were influential, and you just can't write them off. If you like this sound, check out this and this.
The Horrors: Sea Within a Sea: Directed by Douglas Hart. 2009. From Primary Colours, NME's Album of the Year, 2009. Clearly influenced by Can, Mother Sky. The Horrors demonstrate the rule, if you're going to borrow something, then leave it better than you found it. And make a brilliant video while you're at it.
Bauhaus: Stigmata Martyr: 1980. This track still holds up. My special memory of this song comes from Sleepmask rehearsal 2009. Out of the blue, I started playing this song's bass line. Ming, coming alive, comes in on guitar, totally on fire, then, on vocal, even nailing the Latin part. But the other guys didn't know it, so the fire went out. It was dropped. Too bad we didn't play it at Release the Bats.
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: Riverman: 2015. Noel's greatest solo track. The guitar solo is astounding; who played it? I thought it was Noel, playing in an entirely new register. But, no, it was Paul Weller.
Richard Ashcroft: Oh L'Amour: 2025.
The Meadows: Want You to Know. 2005. The Meadows consisted of Bevin Houlihan and Todd Herfindal. This stellar track was written and sung by Bevin.
Suicide: Frankie Teardrop: A Film by Douglas Hart. 2022. Directed by original Jesus and Mary Chain bassist Douglas Hart. I consider this to be a masterpiece, surely, one of the top five rock videos ever made, more likely than not, number one.
Kasabian: Reason Is Treason: 2004. Directed by Scott Lyon. Strangely, they made the video for the alternative mix (the "Jacknife Lee mix," as it's called). The album version of the track is actually better; to hear that, click here.
The Verve: Live in London 1993: Four songs: Star Sail, Slide Away, Virtual World, Blue. This performance, for me, is iconic, possibly for the simple reason that I saw them exactly one month after this October 1993 London show; their performance, absolutely on fire, looked exactly like this, but it was at the Variety Arts Center, downtown LA. The nineties was a horrific time for music; and in my view, the emergence of British indie like The Verve and Suede marked the beginning of an era.