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Everything about this song blew me away when I first heard it and I was driven to total distraction. The production, the melody, the harmony, the guitar, the bass, the drums. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
It was like they had figured out how to go to the moon.
My Bloody Valentine - Feed Me With Your Kiss [...]

Thousands of years of humans making music, and I think this might be the very first song about this subject. Way to go, Eddie!
This has happened to me two times that I can recall. Tomorrow I’ll post at least one of the songs.
Art Brut - Pump Up The Volume from It’s A Bit [...]

The Unicorns And Dragons category [now a tag - Ed.]  is looking a little lonely, so here’s some Mellow Candle. Clodagh Simonds and Alison Williams, who sing this song, were around 17 or 18 when this was recorded. It was written by Simonds.
More info on Mellow Candle here, and lyrics here.
Mellow Candle - [...]

When this song and video came out, it was like there had never been any good rap songs or videos before. No samples, original music (God bless you, Mannie Fresh), pure poetry. Extra credit for writing lyrics for the video version so it’s not all bleeped out.
Juvenile - Ha from 400 Degreez (insound [...]

Coheed And Cambria, why do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
1. High singing
2. Concept albums
3. Lyrics that seem to make little sense until you read them. Then they make less sense.
4. Lots of colons, like the song The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth from the album Good [...]

This is my all-time favorite rap song about skateboarding. Also, it might be the first song where a guy accurately recreates the sound a skateboard makes going down the sidewalk.

Lupe Fiasco - Kick, Push from Food & Liquor (insound / amazon / itunes)

This is from one of my favorite road-trip albums. It’s pretty much all call-and-response and it never ever gets old. I love the crowd noise - it makes it an instant car party. I’m listening to it right now, and it’s like a one-man freakout up in here. Some of y’all might [...]

Great, great, great.
Wendy Rene - After Laughter (Comes Tears) from The Complete Stax-Volt Singles 1959-1968 (amazon / itunes)

Here’s one from the first rock show I ever attended — opening for the Go-Go’s, thank you very much. (And thanks for taking me, Dad!) 1982, comin’ atcha! I think this song rocks very hard. And yeah, that was before the singer did the hair thing.
This one’s for all the [...]

Dance freak-out time. Hope you have the available space.
Sander Kleinenberg - The Fruit (you can download a full-fidelity WAV at trackitdown.net)