This Is This

Billy Ocean Colour Scene
Shortlived Britpop indie shitehawks run through pop hits of 80’s solo phenomenon

Def Buckley
Spandex-clad stadium fillers present soul-searching, singer songwriter cult classics.

Sheryl Quo
Pub-rockers-got-lucky play West Coast radio-friendly songs

Fleetwood Knack
Folk-pop crossover giants apply their melodic blend to My Sharona and other hits

Hans Ferdinand
Retro darlings of the music press turn postmodernism on its head with a twist on the German Oompa sound. Smashes include Take Me Aus.

Daft Monk
French techno hits interpreted in Gregorian chant by a remote order of Francescan monks

The Beachy Boys
Screechy whiteboy rap and funky beats crossed with close harmonies and inventive instrumentation and arrangements

Crowded House of Love
Antipodean songsmithery laced with early 90’s shoegazing

Dr Dre and the Medics
Gansta rap laced with pop party anthems. Greatest Hits album entitled Chronic Asthma.

Echo and the Jivebunny Men
An uptempo mix of all those intraspective 80’s hits you loved on one foot-tapping single!

INXS-Express
Sultry pop with a hard house backing track

Blink 182 Unlimited
Winey power pop with no limits

Eminem People
Stanbag

Aimee Manfred Mann
Postmodern indie mixed with sixties bollocks

Huey Lewis and the Muse
West coast pop candy with a dark centre

Earth, Wind and Fire. And Air.
A heady mix of disc(/tech)no with Gallic flair

Thelonius Punk
Dark, brooding jazz given a French techno twist

Nat King Queen
A royal flush of camped up standards. We will shock you.

The Crazy World of Jackson Brown
Folksy protest songs with a 70’s glam feel

Abba Ranks
The irony of flawlessly-crafted, perfect pop songs with homophobic overtones

Simply Red Hot Chilli Peppers
California funk-rocker play cash-spinning kitchen sink ditties including Money (Give It Away Now)

REM Speedwagon
Lame soft rock meets southern-fried alt-folk rocksters

The Rolling Joss Stones
R&B sensations play a back catalogue of drug-fuelled bluesy hits

Kenny Rogers & Hammerstein
For the mums, this one: the golden age of the Hollywood musican in a country and western style

The Dead Nigel Kennedys
Vivaldi meets the moshpit. Hits include “Holiday in Cambodia (Spring)”

Al Green Day
Smooth soul and blazing punk

Bing Crosby Stills and Nash
Pot-laced harmonies of fireside classics

Talking Radioheads
Quirky arthouse band meets whiney indie die-hards

The Byrds Feeder
Jangly hippy melodies infused with angsty Britrock

The Bee Gee Fugees
Screechy-voiced disco hits with a rootsy hip hop feel

Marylin Hanson
Candy-coated nuggets kiddy pop

Van Halen Morrison
The Belfast Cowboy with blistering axe riffs and tight lycra

Porno for Pixies (the searches I’m going to get now…)
A bizarre shouty circus of loud guitars and conceptual lyrics

Buffalo Tom Jones
Welsh hipswivvelling college rock

The Police Cars
Eclectic post-punk kings of the hook meet 80’s be-shaded MTV popstars

Badly Drawn Boyzone
Acoustic alt-folk meets boybands in a heady mix of screaming teens and media types in chord blazers

The Foo Bangles
The funniest band name yet and I’ve no idea why. Hits include Manic Generator and the controversial Learn to Fly Like An Egyptian.

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