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D-day – 6 June 1944
Song of the Day: To mark the 75th anniversary of the D-day landings in Normandy, three songs of contrasting styles, beginning with one by Hull-born 90-year D-day veteran, old folk singer and peace campaigner
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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - aka Will Oldham
Song of the Day: Nobody quite does upbeat or downbeat depressing like the Louisville singer-songwriter and actor Will Oldham, who has also gone under the Palace or Palace Brothers moniker, so let's do both with two versions of this song
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Bill Callahan
Song of the Day: The past week has featured a selection of wonderful Scottish artists, several of whom admire and have been influenced by this American singer-songwriter whose voice and simplicity of style has power and profundity
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Stephin Merritt and friend
Song of the Day: 'Love is ...' here perhaps less a song, more a poetic, wry, extended metaphor, but still a lugubrious bit of loveliness from The Magnetic Fields' 1999 triple album 69 Love Songs
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Super Furry Animals single cover for Northern Lites
Song of the Day: After Renaissance, let's turn to the innovative Welsh band, here adding a catchy dash of Caribbean calypso, steel drums and brass into a song written years earlier by frontman Gruff Rhys
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Clem Snide, from the cover of their 199 album, Your Favorite Music
Song of the Day: Among the Boston alt-country band's greatest songs, taken from their mischievously titled second album of 1999, Your Favorite Music, and written by singer Eef Barzelay, it trips along with a sensitive, wistful, lazily-paced beauty
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The Fall, with one of many of Mark E Smith's lineups.
Song of the Day: So many to choose, but few match this one for sheer catchy, direct, repetitive brilliance. From 1999's The Marshall Suite, and co-written with Canadian guitarist and keyboard player Julia Nagle, as riffs and choruses go it's up there with the very best
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