Song Stories

Jarvis Cocker turned class tourism, privilege and frustration into one of Britpop’s defining songs and one of the sharpest British pop records of the 1990s

A strange mix of dub, hip-hop, electronics and one very simple Omnichord preset became the song that introduced Gorillaz to the world

Geese turn chaos into something enormous on ‘Taxes’, a song that helped establish them as one of the most exciting new guitar bands in the world

R.E.M. wrapped a song about Vietnam, Agent Orange and the human cost of war inside one of the most immediate tracks of their breakthrough era

Intruders happy in the dark Intruder come Intruder come and leave, leave his mark, leave his mark

Sunrise doesn't last, all morning A cloudburst doesn't last all day Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning It's not always gonna be this gray

And I wrote for luck and they sent me you And I sent for juice, you give me poison I order a line, you form a queue

I heard he lives down a river somewhere With six cars and a grizzly bear

And what about you? In fact, don't answer that Wouldn't want it any other way 'Cause this feels, bestie girl

There's the moon asking to stay Long enough for the clouds to fly me away

We said we'd all go down together Yes, we would all go down together

We belong together.