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The Chameleons (UK) "Paradiso" 1986
The Chameleons deserve as much credit for influencing the current post-punk sound (esp. the 8th note guitar sound) as the oft-name-checked-on-press-release-darlings Joy Division, Gang of Four, or Wire. If you are into this stuff check out their record Strange Times. Easily 70% of the kids at Interpol's first shows were wearing Chameleons Tshirts. This is my favorite song of theirs.

Echoboy "Telestar Recovery" 2000
Echoboy's other songs on, "Vol 1" and "Vol 2" have almost nothing in common with this sweet track; ie: they aren't sweet tracks. I wonder if Echoboy knows this. I wonder if when the Echoboy guy wrote this he was like "Man this is awesome...Oh well, enough of that, tiime to get back to my true passion: writing music no one likes." Seems to me like once you take the first tender steps down the road of awesome one cannot turn back. Maybe the the light of awesome was too blindingly beautiful and terrible to embrace, like when Frodo offered Galadriel the One Ring. I'm just saying.