"Blue Moon Swamp," Surfacing" and "The Colour And The Shape" are still in regular rotation for me. I own the RLJ and Panic albums, but can say nothing about them.

I take issue with Del Amitri's inclusion as well. They were most certainly not purveyors of "interchangeable rom-com jangle pop." "Roll To Me" is the lone upbeat outlier in a catalog full of breakup songs and caustic social commentary.

It's Willy DeVille doing the vocals, actually, not Bill Medley.

Two favorites of mine are Billy Cobham's "Stratus," which forms the backbone of Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm," and the intro to Funkadelic's "Good Old Music" which is strategically deployed to good effect in the Soulpower remix of Living Colour's "Love Rears Its Ugly Head." I'm a bit stunned that "Ashley's…