Generation X: Kiss Me Deadly: 1978. Hugely influential to a certain generation.
The Stranglers: Five Minutes. Non-album single, 1978.
Little Barrie: More Bad Miles of Road: 2026.
Wolf Alice: White Horses: 2026. Band leaders and record producers: file this one under "Let the drummer sing, see what happens" doctrine.
Kasabian: Hippie Sunshine. 2025.
Richard Ashcroft: Oh L'Amour: 2025.
The Chocolate Watch Band: Don't Need Your Lovin'. 1967. And, of course, their Dylan cover, Baby Blue.
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.
Nico: I'm Not Sayin'. 1965. This video was reconstructed out of recently found footage. The result is spectacular, unprecedented, and almost unworldly. Imagine if every Velvet Underground-related track had filmed footage of this quality. Incidentally, that's Jimmy Page on rhythm guitar, Brian Jones on lead guitar; filmed at Paul McCartney's house.
Pete Yorn: Life On A Chain: 2001. Good times. Great album.
The Black Angels: Currency: 2017.
Wolf Alice: The Last Man On Earth. 2021. From Blue Weekend, album of the year, in my opinion. Also from that album, this.
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.