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The sleeve for LCD Soundsystem's debut first single
Song of the Day: After our previous Eric B. and Rakim number, Know The Ledge, it's a different, double-edged song, and a debut by Brooklyn's James Murphy and co satirising the fear of not staying in vogue
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Peter Allen. Enjoying it both ways.
Song of the Day: After yesterday's funky Janelle Monáe number about bisexuality, let's turn back the clock to 1980, and a different disco funk pop hit from an Australian who used a cheeky geographical metaphor
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David Byrne
Song of the Day: That's not my beautiful house! Or is it? Today we may find ourselves comparing two sublime songs, two houses, one brand new and a classic from the Talking Heads Remain in Light album of 1980
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Awkward position: Abba's Agnetha Fältskog
Song of the Day: Completing a triptych of songs about pyrrhic victory in relationships, an ultimate breakup number by the Swedish pop quartet – heavily layered in irony because Agnetha Fältskog sang the lead in a work written by ex-husband Björn Ulvaeus
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The Beat in 1980
Song of the Day: A political, but prescient number from their debut 1980 album I Just Can't Stop It, this wonderful Birmingham ska-reggae outfit, best known for their hit Mirror In The Bathroom, was among the 2 Tone label's finest
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Brothers Angus and Malcolm (right) AC/DC's founders, practising in their younger days
Song of the Day: A tribute to the late Malcolm Young, the steadily brilliant rhythm guitarist and co-founding member of the Scottish/Australian rock band, who recently passed away after several years of health problems
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The Cure
Song of the Day: Continuing our arboreal theme, an otherworldly classic from the Cure's early goth days from their second album of 1980, Seventeen Seconds, which, on limited budget was recorded on only a week. Robert Smith's ghostly vocals and guitar effects (before his trademark long hair) combine eerily with Simon Gallup's echoing bass
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