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Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty
Song of the Day: After Nico delivering deliciously stone-cold world-weariness, lets turn to a different edge-of-existence song – with the extraordinary voice of Anohni, formerly Antony Hegarty, from 2005's I Am A Bird Now album
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The Human League, featuring Phil Oakey, third from left.
Song of the Day: More love song action, and groundbreaking synth pop, following yesterday's Eurythmics, with Phil Oakley and the Sheffield crew pumping out a classic from the 1981 album Dare
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Patti Smith, 1975
Song of the Day: "Three-chord rock merged with the power of the word" is how the Chicago-born New York singer and poet described the 1975 debut album that galloped on the music scene with such impact, combining poetry with early punk and krautrock
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The Surfing Magazines. Their self-titled debut album is out on on Moshi Moshi
Song of the Day: Wonderfully catchy garage rock with a splash of surf and Lou Reed, this marvellous Moshi Moshi release sees David Tattersall and Franic Rozycki of The Wave Pictures join with Slow Club's Charles Watson
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Lou Reed on the corner New York's 8th Avenue
Song of the Day: Today's selection is as much a sample of Reed's truly great, and undervalued album of 1989, New York, where social and political criticism comes with great music, and killer, prescient lyrics
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The Modern Lovers
Song of the Day: To complete a trio of radio songs, we turn the dial to one of the most beloved of garage rock numbers of all time, expressing the sheer joy of listening to music on the road
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