No prizes for guessing why this one popped into my mind this week as Los Angeles battles the terrible wildfires.

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Low’s wonderful Christmas album is a staple in my house at this time of year. This is my favourite song.

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The Fall might not be the most obvious band to convey the festive spirit. But Mark E Smith and chums do a decent job of tackling this old carol.

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Galaxie 500 take Yoko Ono’s delicate Christmas song and transform it into an intense Velvets-like jam that improves on the original.

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The Verve had their first (and last) number one single with The Drugs Don’t Work, the second of four hit ballads from their 1997 album Urban Hymns.

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Bowie’s album track Something In The Air from Hours was remixed with the addition of Mike Garson’s piano for the movie American Psycho.

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I vaguely remember Revolting Cocks appearing in the mid-Eighties but I’d forgotten all about this magnificent piece of provocation called Beers, Steers & Queers in 1992.

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What would happen if you mixed The Smiths, New Order and Pet Shop Boys together to form a supergroup? You’d come up with Getting Away With It because Electronic’s debut single really does sound exactly like the confluence of its components.

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Nick Cave’s chilling account of a man awaiting execution in the electric chair remains a highlight of his huge arena shows more than 30 years later.

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Mississippi bluesman Junior Kimbrough did not come to fame until he was in his sixties – but made a lasting impression with his Hill Country Blues.

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