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Banz's Top 5 Songs

Perfect Kiss [New Order]	This was the outstanding track on the NO megamix that my mate Ted made me. That tape is knocking about somewhere but it must be due for retirement after much good service. 'Perfect Kiss' is perfectly crafted and uplifting, especially when listened to as part of Substance.
Celebrity Skin [Hole]	I'm not a huge fan of Courtney Love but this must rate as one of the high points of her musical career by some distance. Simple fun but none the worse for it.
Bikini Girls with Machine Guns [The Cramps]	This is more about where it takes me back to than what it is. If ever I need to be taken back to early-90s Hartlepool then this is the song to do it. The musical equivalent of walking into a pub with your mates at 7 o'clock on a Friday night.
Basket Case [Green Day]	Another song which somehow sounds better on a jukebox than on the stereo. This is probably the spiritual triplet of the two songs above it.
Nightswimming [REM]	There are no shortage of classics from REM, but to my mind this is in a different league. A song so simple it sounds like you could have written it yourself (but don't bother checking the credits unless your name is Stipe).

Vic's Top 5 Songs

A Day In The Life [The Beatles]	For me the epoch of Sgt Pepper's and therefore of The Beatles. Highs and lows throughout, it truly is a day in the life. Also includes some of Ringo's best drumming and rounds out, to me anyway, a perfect song.
No Aphrodisiac [The Whitlams]	Starting off as a typical lovesong - "A letter to you on a casette, cause we don't write anymore", No Aphrodisiac then goes from the sublime to the ridiculous. The thing is, it works. Kind of like a your average relationship.
Sweet Child o' Mine [Guns n' Roses]	Slash's opening guitar riff = shivers down my spine. Guns 'n' Roses' Appetite For Destruction was the soundtrack to my teens, but this is the song that always warrants a repeat on the stereo.
Lithium [Nirvana]	Smells Like Teen Spirit is the song that "all the pretty boys" like. But, to me, Lithium is Nevermind's high point. The perfect bland of powerpop and grunge. Heeeyyyyyy yeah.
Streets of Your Town [The Go-Betweens]	A great band from my hometown that aren't Savage Garden (well besides The Church who were doing punk long before The Sex Pistols). The Go-Betweens are the band that produced this sublime piece of pop. A contributor as well as cure for homesickness.

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