Goat: Let it Burn: 2021. Perfect ten.

The Creation: Making Time (Live).  1966. A convincing performance. Here's the stellar studio version on extremely noisy colored vinyl. And, how about this?

The Yardbirds: Heart Full of Soul: 1968. Vintage Jimmy Page, while he was still a British hipster, and well before he became a boring classic rock god. Also from Yardbirds, White Summer, clearly influenced by Page favorite Bert Jansch, who later played with Mazzy Star vocalist Hope Sandoval, on her excellent album Bavarian Fruit Bread. (FYI, I saw Hope on that tour, at the El Rey in L.A.). That musical DNA exends to here, on this mind-blowing track from Chemical Brothers, featuring Sandoval.

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. 

Music Machine: Trouble: 1966. Also, "The People in Me." For my money, Sean Bonniwell's Music Machine was by far the most sinister of the psychedelic bands. Their whip-cracking rhythms, bubbling bass lines, satanic Farfisa organ, and deranged fuzz work are still unsurpassed. Here they are on television circa 1967. 

The Stranglers: Five Minutes: 1978. Non-album single. 

Kasabian: Hippie Sunshine. 2025. 

Kasabian: Sixteen Blocks: 2017. It would be impossible to accurately describe how much I love this track. It comes off like some sinister hybrid of Volga boatmen angst and spaghetti western twang. Separately, my favorite track on this album is "Wasted." 

Johnny Marr: Walk Into The Sea: 2018. Amazing track. 

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.  

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.