Because Def Wish Cast believed in the battle they were fighting. Unfortunately, it ended 808 State's run of UK Top 20 hits, falling outside of the Top 40, and hit the lofty heights of number 143 on the Australian chart. Given that Graham Massey from 808 State contributed to Björk's early solo work, this delicious track is something of a prototype for the world-conquering records that were to follow. This 1991 single was recorded in the period after Björk left The Sugarcubes, and prior to the release of her debut album. It confesses to bad choices that will inevitably be repeated: is it about love? Or does it hint at darker patterns of thought or behaviour? Perhaps I'm overthinking it, when I should hit repeat and return to head bobbing loon. Complementing both those conflicting guitar sounds, Kennedy's delivery is passionate and sexy yet wholesome enough to imitate (as I may or may not have done) without cringing. ‘Don't It Get You Down' kicks off their second album Milk and is built on their trademark jangly power pop vying with scuzzy garage riffs.

Melbourne's Deadstar formed in 1995 as a collaboration between guitarist Barry Palmer ( Hunters & Collectors), singer Caroline Kennedy ( The Plums) and drummer Peter Jones ( Crowded House). They split in 2006, but singer/songwriter Euros Childs is still wonderfully prolific (and DIY), releasing an album a year, including a project with Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake under the name Jonny. – Dorothy Markek 49. The wistful ‘Patio Song', taken from 1997's Barafundle, peaked at number 41 on the singles chart, the closest the band came to a hit. They could tease folk out any number of ways, from the gentle, pastoral side all the way out to the whimsical, rocking psych-freak edge. They're most simply described as a folk band, but it was never that simple with Gorky's. Along with Super Furry Animals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci championed Welsh language music and brought it to mainstream British radio. This Welsh band's core trio came together in high school in the early 90s.

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