Noise-rock bros burn like the Replacements at their most earnestly hopped up."If they try to slow you down/Tell 'em all to go to hell," yowls Brian King, riding a ragged guitar surge. Invigorating stuff – and a fine soundtrack to your next speeding ticket.

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“Help Me”

Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded this song for her album Court and Spark, but she had to switch from her regular band to make the song sound exactly the way she wanted. "I had attempted to play my music with rock & roll players," she told Rolling Stone. "They’d laugh, 'Awww, isn't that cute? She's trying to teach us how to play.'" Mitchell switched to a jazz band, Tom Scott’s L.A. Express, and scored the biggest hit of her career in the process.