R.E.M. - "Leave (alternate version)" (Complete Warner Bros Rariteis 1988-2011 / soundtrack "A Life Less Ordinary")

Amazing song. Quite different from the original.

Chris Isaak - "Blue Spanish Sky" (best of Chris Isaak)

Chris Isaak's at his best.

Shpongle - "Behind Closed Eyelids" (Are You Shpongled?)

Not a musician I need to mention because I've never mentioned him, but particularly the beginning of this song always makes me nod and swing my head in weird ways.

Labasheeda - "Changing Lights" (2015)

• "Leave of Absence" : great instrumental violin track

Weedeater - "Goliathan" (2015)

First grumbled line of the first song of the album, over a drony synth: "I really hate your face / I hate the things you do / I know you don't like me / I'm coming after you"

Quite like Starsailor's "You really have your daddy's eyes / your daddy was an alcoholic"

The rest is just doom sludge crap.

Robert Herrick - "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" (1600)

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.

The Newsroom (2012-2014)

Great show with awesome dialogues and storyline. True enough, season one was better than two, which kept digressing into love stories a bit too much, but still pretty awesome (the ending of s02e07 (?) where big boss lady is high and delivers one of her finest moments!)