The Sundays' Can't Be Sure generalises the concept of desire and the narrator describes it as being a “terrible thing.”

Pixies' Monkey Gone to Heaven deals with environmental issues and is a testament to the damage mankind has done to the planet.

I did read that Getting Away With It is partly a parody of Morrissey from his days in The Smiths and the image he projected to his audience.

W.F.L. is not the most straightforward song to unravel but it does seem to concern a relationship that has changed or broken down.

Like a Prayer harks back to Madonna’s own upbringing. She has stated in interviews that being raised as a Catholic led to a lifelong impact.

Faith No More's Epic describes a narrator who is in the midst of an experience, one that is leaving them feeling very good indeed.

In Me Myself & I each of the members of De La Soul take it in turns to express their frustration at being labelled by their contemporaries as hippies.

I Am the Resurrection seems concerned not with a love of religion but with a breaking of the bond between mankind and faith.

In the chorus of Soy gitano we hear that he is gatecrashing a wedding and is going to make a spectacle of himself and declare his feelings.

Songwriter Martin Gore took inspiration and indeed the song title from Priscilla Presley who once referred to her husband, Elvis Presley, as her own “personal Jesus”.

Chris Isaak himself said Wicked Game was inspired by a late night call from a girl who wanted to come over and “talk” with him.

A Little Respect is another of Erasure’s gems and in this period they were regularly flirting with the UK Top 10.

Love Shack referred to a real place in Athens, Georgia and was a cabin where singer, Kate Pierson, once lived and apparently it burned down in 2004.

Ale Brider has an upbeat and passionate feel to it throughout, a sense of warmth and comfort that you only get in a friendly community. 

Ederlezi is made up of what sounds like a child singing the main verses with an additional choir coming in to support on the choruses.

The Mercy Seat has a dual meaning in the song, being on one hand the gold lid from the Ark of the Covenant but also an electric chair.

Metallica's One took its inspiration from the novel, Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo, 1939), adapted into an anti-war movie in 1971.

Orinoco Flow is an enchanting piece with Enya singing of sailing away and describing a series of shores and locations around the globe.

Everyday Is Like Sunday sees Morrissey singing about being in a gloomy coastal town and it really has him down.

Opel is a long track driven heavily by guitar and Syd Barrett’s often distant voice. It feels like there are instruments absent here.