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20. Talking Heads – Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites “This ain’t no Mudd Club/ Or CBGB,” though Sand in the Vaseline is virtually as authentic as any performance Talking Heads ever put on at their old Manhattan haunts. In fact, that lyric is even delivered in a live cut of “Life During Wartime,” one of two live tracks that …

“Fire in Cairo” from Three Imaginary Boys (1979) No, “Fire in Cairo” is not a political song, though its explosive refrain of “F-I-R-E-I-N-C-A-I-R-O” is received like the rallying cry of an enraptured true believer, shouted from the platform of a falling statue. Instead, this track, featured on the Cure’s 1979 debut Three Imaginary Boys and again on the 1980 U.S. …

Sky Blue Sky by Wilco (2007) Drugs help. When Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy went to rehab (no, no, no) in 2004, the band had just come off the masterful one-two punch of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002) and A Ghost Is Born (2004), two of the most experimental, sophisticated albums of the decade. Then after he cleaned up, they produced Sky …