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'True Love Waits' by Radiohead

there may be more savvy Radiohead friends out there who have got their mits on a studio version or alternate versions of 'True Love Waits', but most of us make do with the sweet but passionate performance on the live album 'I Might Be Wrong'. More of a Thom Yorke solo track, long before his solo material came out in The Eraser, it's built on an uncommon chord progression and ends on almighty climax as he thrashes his poor acoustic guitar in to submission. Thom's lyrics ring through painfully heartfelt and emotive. "I'll drown my beliefs....Just don't leave, don't leave.." Here, Radiohead takes the usual love-rejection song to a level of honest and believable bleakness, desparate raw emotions, the feeling of being helplessly at mercy to your own heart-strings, and having them thrashed in to submission too.

Hey Man, Now You're Really Living by Eels

The strength in Eels material comes largely from E's lyrics. It's easy to reach a consensus that 'Susan's House' is genuinely eery and gets spookier the more you listen. You wash down the bitter pills of curmudgeon and hopelessness with gallons of dry, dark humour throughout the music. E is at his best on this track when handing out back-handed compliments to the outer world.' Do you know what it's like to fall on the floor/cry your guts out til you got no more/Hey man, now you're really living', if this song was an instrumental it would sound like the beggining of a kid's tv show, complete with smiling fluffy dinosaurs.