Little Fluffy Clouds from The Orb is a mixture of samples and electronic beats.

Bonita Applebum refers to a young lady that the narrator is very much into. The name “applebum” is in reference to her impressive posterior.

Joey Beltram's techno piece Energy Flash is all about the sound with a handful of singing in there though the words are not easy to decipher.

Birdhouse in Your Soul is written from the perspective of a nightlight and what it observes and does for those around it.

Iceblink Luck is a hard track to unravel and indeed The Cocteau Twins are notorious for songs such as this one.

Primal Scream's Loaded is actually a remix of an earlier track by the group entitled - I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have.

Judas Priest's Painkiller opens with a frenetic piece of drumming before heavy guitars and high-pitched vocals take charge.

In Rhythm Nation, Jackson juxtaposed beats and rhythms to be found on music channels with unpleasant current affairs headlines.

Chloe Dancer/Crown of Thorns is said to be about Andrew Wood’s relationship with his then girlfriend, Xana La Fuente.

The Blue Nile's Headlights on the Parade is heavily driven by a piano/keyboard that opens proceedings and continues for much of the track.

Nothing Has Been Proved recreates aspects of the Profumo scandal with each verse describing a particular eyebrow raising moment.

Back to Life… opens with the express wish to leave behind a fantasy realm two lovers inhabit and to return to the reality that is life.

The Humpty Dance is a silly but fun bit of hip hop, detracting from social commentary in favour of a humorous tale of a so-called ugly man’s sexual antics.

Nothing Compares 2 U conveys the painful end of a relationship and how one of the people in this union is struggling to pick up the pieces.

In Free Fallin’ Tom Petty teamed up with Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) to write a track that was a homage to San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles.lin by Tom Petty

One popular interpretation of Lullaby is that it refers to bedtime stories Smith heard as a child of a spiderman that eats children alive.

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.