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Dan Black - 'U + Me ='
Katy Perry - 'Teenage Dream'
Technophobia - 'Queen K' (via ´óÏó´«Ã½ Introducing)
Bloc Party - 'Banquet'
Two Door Cinema Club - 'Do You Want It All'
Led Zeppelin - 'Heartbreaker'
Smashing Pumpkins - '1979'
Phoenix - 'Lisztomania'
Metallica - 'Enter Sandman'
Demi Lovato - 'La La Land'
Van Halen - 'Dance The Night Away'
Local Natives - 'Wide Eyes'
John Coltrane - 'A Love Supreme (Part One: Acknowledgement)'
Owl City - 'The Technicolor Phase'
The Clash - 'Lost In The Supermarket'
Joy Division - 'Isolation'
Beck - 'Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes'
Marilyn Manson - 'mOBSCENE'
Me and My Sister - 'Speaking on the Telephone' (via ´óÏó´«Ã½ Introducing)

This week, The Cut has been cowering before the titanic and threatening shadow of The Great Rock Riff. No matter what terrible dramas and wondrous events may have befallen our heroic cast, they are as naught in comparison to the bringing together of the colossally amplified electric guitar and the devastatingly applied plectrum, against a backdrop of monolithic amplification.

In this week's song list there are not one, not two, but THREE riffs of such astonishing magnitude that the world itself shakes before their majestic enormity. 'Heartbreaker' by Led Zeppelin is one such beast, stomping around the aural plains like a armour-plated brontosaur in army boots. Then there's 'mOBSCENE', a bigger, blacker, angrier kind of brontosaur, the kind who also rides a motorbike and writes disgusting graffiti on the police station walls.

Bigger, blackerer and gnarliest of all is 'Enter Sandman', a Tyrannosaurus with toothache, mirror shades and the trunk of a mighty oak tree between its teeth, the way you or I might roll a toothpick around the corner of our mouth in order to look cool.

Not that you have to be loud to be heavy. I'd argue the heaviest song of the lot - in emotional terms at least - is 'Everybody's Got To Learn Sometimes', because the one thing these colossal beasts fear above all else, is naked, vulnerable honesty. Honesty is like kryptonite to The Great Rock Riff. Remember this and you will always be safe from being trampled by brontosauruses.

in all of it's hallowed and rocking glory.

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