The Vampire Weekend talent pool runs deep. This elegant track from Rostam Batmanglij is a different flavor from his electro-pop project, Discovery, with its sitar, hand drums and strings; imagine David Byrne sleepwalking through a Bollywood musical.

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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.