I like the song, and I’m strangely chuffed to see Steve McQueen (Two Wheel being deployed as a signifier of classicism much as, say, a Julie London LP would have been deployed in an NME feature circa 1982.

1 – Two Way Monologue – Sondre Lerche
2 – Figure Eight – Elliot Smith
3 – From a Compound Eye – Robert Pollard
4 – Field Music – Field Music
5 – The Lost Album – Lewis Taylor
6 – Fed – Plush
7 – […]

Penthouse and Pavement

You’re not wrong!

‘R.E.M.’ by R.E.M.? (9)

No, it’s 1,5, 7 – basically the first three words with a single letter changed.

Yes indeedy.

Here’s Tom with the Weather

A Tramp Shiting (misprint)

Yes and yes!

A Fierce Pancake

Facades?

🎆

I’ll try! No. 1 is a 1985 album by a band that by all accounts was a riot live…

No. 2 was this band’s second album, released in 1994. The French director bit gives you the name of the band and the rest refers […]

“Always different, always the same”? No, just the first part (7, 7)

Barafundle!

Correct!

Bang on!

Nutty confectionery? (11)

Generic French film director reborn as stock Hollywood character (3, 2, 1, 6)

This lavish slice of early 90s power-pop may be cruelly undervalued, but there’s no point in crying about it (5, 4)