It’s sour, like chasing tequila with a slice of lemon.Â. To make matters worse, this wasn’t a chance meeting; she deliberately tracked the pair down like a drunken Nancy Drew, knowing full well what she would find. English folk duo Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker often integrate jazz influences into their work. Ultimately, though, ‘Green Light’ finds satisfaction in the shoal of gossiping sharks lingering just off-shore. No nostalgic ‘80s playlist is complete without a slightly unwarranted sax solo. It’s hard to imagine a better introduction to the world than: “What you gon’ do when I appear? Glover’s falsetto – which, incredibly, wasn’t pitch-shifted in the studio – rightly drew comparisons with the late, great Prince. Sound of the summer.” Zoya Raza-Sheikh. Luckily it also showed that its creator hadn’t lost his knack for writing something to kickstart the moshpit. She certainly did that, perhaps most notably on the jazzy Your Rhythm. The 1975 are in form for sax work, having also featured the instrument on their debut album in 2013. K-SW, Re-emerging in 2016 with ‘Formation,’ Beyoncé empowered her beehive. Comedian Adam Hills: Music Trivia and TV vs Standup. DS, Ariana Grande’s first release after the tragic terrorist attack at her Manchester concert in 2017 set the tone for her next two years. Donald Glover’s bold reinvention as a 70s soul’n’funk crooner – with 2016 album ‘Awaken, My Love!’ – ultimately paid off. Top 20 Greatest Guitar Solos. features Lenny Pickett from Tower of Power. Something that sounds like "bapopdominicano". ‘Two To Birkenhead’ is the album’s crowning gem, a gnarled tour around the Wirral town. Frank’s got you covered. Top 10 Greatest Drum Solos of All Time. When ‘Yonkers’ first came out, though, all you could do was listen, agog, at the venomous self-loathing. No wonder it’s become a cultural reference point. Up to today I couldn't find it … SM, ‘Boyfriend (Repeat)’ showcases the simple formula behind all that’s great about this MDMA-zing Antipodean dance duo: a Balearic pulse plus horizontal attitude equals pretension-free fun for the masses. Chanted by 1000 rowdy lads in unison, it’s the track that launched 1000 pints. EH, Josh Homme’s schtick has always been that there’s a touch of campness to his macho swagger, and here he delightfully hams it up over a shimmying groove, purring, “My heart, a ding-a-ling, a puppet on a string / C’est la vie”. In a nutshell: it’s perfection. The band are still going strong today, proving the myth of ‘the Mercury curse is just that’. RD, Only Hopkins could craft eight glorious minutes of churning, propulsive techno that sounds equally at home whether you’re on the dancefloor at 4am or en route to pick up a loaf of bread and a pint of milk. Re: Covering pop songs on sax? Mmm… sacrilicious. If you read between the lines, you also found a pop hit highlighting a very modern condition – the need to numb yourself to the onslaught of the world by any means necessary. The track inspired the pop landscape to move on from songs about “Cristal, Maybach, diamonds on your timepiece” and onto the current crop of relatable young stars such as Billie Eilish, Mallrat and Clairo, who sing about subjects that are far more tangible to their listeners. This hulking chunk of space-age disco-funk was always destined to top the charts. True to her influential form, it foreshadowed the rise of dancehall in mainstream pop. RD, .Paak sure knew how to make us boogie in the 2010s. This track sees the sax play in conjunction with electronic sounds, creating powerful tonal fusions on the album that many are heralding as Bon Iver’s most ambitious. Police brutality, systematic racism, the proliferation of fake news, Donald Trump’s sexism and drug-fuelled hedonism all jostle for space with snatches of meme-speak (“poison me daddy”) and Healy’s take on a possible cause of global warming: “fossil fuelling masturbation”. That iconic “Duh”? Rock sax songs. It was Devon native Joe Mount’s clever way of likening small town inertia to a relationship in a rut. 2. It’s a key lyric that tells you everything about Kanye West and also explains that perfect title of that album, which sounds like the most incredible homework project you’ve ever encountered. I love the rolling stones, especially their hit Waiting on a … AT, “EEZ-EH! RD, The 2010s were pretty much defined by Aubrey Graham, but ‘Hotline Bling’ proved to be one of the first times when he showed us he was capable of creating a monster – in many senses of the word. We just thought it was a sublime and self-referential reflection on his life’s work. And just when you thought there was enough saxophone in the 1980s to last us until the end of time, the music world has been shocked to discover that the saxophone is back in 2016. DS, The 1975 love to slop on layers of irony: their 2016 record ‘I like it when you sleep…’ was riddled with self-depreciation and satirical fun-poking. Nevertheless, Fitz and The Tantrums' James King wailed away. Picking up in the middle of their swift rise to fame, ‘Sweet’ saw them try to make sense of the whirlwind. RD, Appearing on their masterful debut ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’, this track saw Scotland’s Chvrches achieve synth-pop perfection. But no, he was weaving his own life into art. The track features a recurring sax hook which is sure to get you moving. Back then, the excess of ‘Royals’ was a distant fantasy. When we first heard it, we didn’t know it would be his last – or that he knew he was saying goodbye. "Smooth Operator" - Sade. ‘Bad Girls’ was MIA at her fierce, furious best as we launched into a new decade. El Hunt, Robyn’s music often holds up the dancefloor as a utopian place. One of the more retro examples of saxophone use on this list, This Must Be A Dream features a complete saxophone solo which is skilful enough to give Kirk Pengilly a run for his money. She’s “all messed up” and “so outta line”. So there's this song, and I have just a few hints: - like 120bpm - club/dance song - the refrain is a rhythmic saxophone riff with no voice - female singer - I'd say it's from the last 5 years - Heard in a your typical pop-party playlist, no niche. Is it because of this sax solo? 2015 was riddled with tropical house music, and songs from the Canadian singer’s fourth album ‘Purpose’ featured some of the hookiest cuts imaginable. EH, The dreamy intimacy, melancholic subject matter and lithe instrumentation on ‘Thinkin About You’ was a perfect introduction to one of the decade’s most intriguing artists. Christine and The Queens celebrated not fitting in. Full of confidence and eloquence, this was a sassy track that brought everyone together; the sensational sounds of a marching band created a truly grand feeling, helping ‘Formation’ to forge a celebratory mood. Want a song for the cutting shapes on the dance-floor, and one for smooching – at the same time? Even the then-President called him a “jackass”, a fact Kanye acknowledged on ‘POWER’: “They say I was the abomination of Obama’s nation / Well that’s a pretty bad way to start the conversation.”, Yet this unchained track saw him puff out his chest, take the flak and vow to honour the childlike naivety that super-charges his creativity and also makes him act like, well, a jackass. SM, On their first two albums, The xx existed in a fairly monochrome space. Lyrically, the song saw Turner pining after a former flame, while (naturally) also setting his sights on seducing her once more. On her debut ‘Pure Heroine’, Lorde captured the banality of a torn-up town “with no postcode envy” – and her longing to escape it. One of the more fleeting sax appearances on this list, the millennial supergroup didn’t have to look far to find someone who could contribute that extra layer of sound on Pattern. JB, The “best boyband since One Direction” had a particularly prolific year in 2017, releasing all three records from their ‘Saturation’ trilogy in rapid succession. TS, It’s hard to remember quite how divisive an artist Skrillex was at the start of the decade because with ‘Bangarang’ he simply bludgeoned his critics into submission. Arriving after the band had stepped away for three years, it was a tense and brilliant comeback. Go! Here was an artist who wasn’t going to play by the rules. The way the bass throbbed and rumbled like you were hearing it from the smoking area of a club rather than dancing under the PA? If there was a song that captured the ingenious artistry of Frank Ocean, it’s the nine minutes and 54 seconds of ‘Pyramids’, the second single from his debut studio album ‘channel ORANGE’, which also happens to be one of the decade’s best records. But they really arrived with the aptly-titled ‘Singles’ in 2014, a record that sounded like a Greatest Hits album. Staging a blinged-out drag race featuring niqab-wearing women and supporting Saudi Arabia’s Women to Drive Movement – they were forbidden to drive in the country until 2018 – ‘Bad Girls’ didn’t just show us an artist who was totally in the driver’s seat, but one who was also trying to make the world a more equal playing field. “Screams from the haters,” he mocked, “got a nice ring to it / I guess every superhero need his theme music.” His vulnerability is compelling, but Kanye’s self-belief is contagious. Impressively, the sax hasn’t always shown its face in the form of awkwardly timed solos this year. RD, The late rapper’s toxic legacy has understandably overshadowed his contribution to music, but 20-year-old Jahseh Onfroy’s innovative combination of mumble-rap and emo set a template that American hip-hop continues to trace. It was also a perfect example of one of the things that made Lamar the decade’s most compelling rap lyricist: his ability to simultaneously embrace and subvert musical clichés. ‘Shutdown’ became the grime anthem for all tracksuit menaces that practised what we preached. EH, Half pretty pop, half attitude-filled rap, Nicki’s most iconic track captured the feeling of falling for someone and, in typical Minaj style, favoured empowerment over sentimentality. Class dismissed. DB, Pairing stark admissions of drug use and addiction with an infectious Metro Boomin beat, Future created one of the catchiest tracks of the year and one that’s still playing out in clubs today. News and Entertainment from Australia's favourite youth publisher, The colours that moved thousands: Michiyo Yasuda, animator and Studio Ghibli mainstay, has passed away at 77. ‘Dancing On My Own’ is a song that exists in this strobe-lit space – except, this time, it turns away from the high and faces the low: in other words, it’s about someone who’s lost and self-destructive amid the positivity. What’s interesting, though, is that Abel Tesfaye was openly declaring a love of the old nose candy and its effects. On the lead single from 2013’s ‘Mosquito’, Karen O brought the two themes neatly together by shagging a literal angel. “Ain’t that just like me?” AT, Everyone knows ditching your friends to hang out with a romantic interest is a big no-no, but Charli XCX took things one step further in ‘Boys’, flaking out just to think about them. RD, The London guitar heroes have been pinned as the form’s next great hope and, sure enough, here they showcase incredible versatility, depth and avant-garde style. Words: Dhruva Balram, Jordan Bassett, Leonie Cooper, Rhian Daly, Alex Flood, El Hunt, Charlotte Krol, Sam Moore, Hannah Mylrea, Kevin EG Perry, Zoya Raza-Sheikh, Nick Reilly, Thomas Smith, Dan Stubbs, Andrew Trendell, Kyann-Sian Williams, Over a four-to-the-floor funk beat, Kung-Fu Kenny displays a warning to his haters and “the powers that be” – all while channelling the rebellious slave King Kunta on what is surely the grooviest song from Kendrick’s seminal 2015 album ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’. One of the band’s two lead singers, Miles Kane, lends his sax-playing skills to the track, having learned the instrument as a child before picking up the guitar. Healy CREDIT: Jenn Five/NME it blasted for months from coffee shops car! She’S chatting shite to make the dangerous crossing glimpse into their work and one smooching... 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