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Platform Music's graduates' soundtrack to the university years
The Killers - When You Were Young
With an aptly euphoriccally nostalgic tone, The Killers provide the perfect soundtrack to growing up, moving on, and looking back.
Elbow - One Day Like This
A glorious and celestial celebration of love, life and the simple things. This will see you right.
Photo by Andrew Trendell
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
This triumphant tune from the disco-infiltrating dance-punk pioneer soundtracked many a night of ecstasy, reminding us that its your friends that keep you dancing.
We Are Scientists – After Hours
Last year's indie anthem to those tender drunken moments of romance. Altogether now: SAY...THAT YOU'LL STAY.
Radiohead – 15 Step
Artful, experimental, epic, understated yet complete, the opener from In Rainbows is an orgasmic electro-rock Odyssey.
Andy Trendell
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Head Automatica - Beating Heart Baby
A Rock City main room classic. Sing, dance, and drink cheeky vimto... Good times.
Pendulum - Fasten your seatbelts
Yes, all Pendulum songs do sound the same... Regardless, this is a huge tune to kick start any party.
Soulja Boy - Crank That
Doesn’t matter where you are, if you’re out this WILL get played... and everyone WILL do the dance like it or not.
Frank Turner - A Love Worth Keeping
Mellow, heart-wrenching, beautiful, worth keeping.
Operator Please - Leave It Alone
Probably the best thing to come out of an Australian Battle of the Bands, ever.
Sarah Harrison
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Fredde le Grand – Put Your Hands Up For Detroit
This track announced our arrival at Nottingham Trent – the iconic dance number peppering many a Climax Saturday and had all our drunken hands in the air.
Enter Shikari – Sorry You’re Not A Winner
Enter Shikari hit the ground running with this dirty great tune mixing heavy rock with some electronica, whetting students’ appetites for the up-coming festival mosh pits.
Foo Fighters – The Pretender
Dave Grohl and his band of merry men smashed back into our consciousness with this frenetic rock track, which rightly became one of the Foo’s most popular.
Fall Out Boy – This Ain’t A Scene
Their most successful charting single to date, the Chicago quartet deliver a call to arms against the preference of style over substance of the ‘emo’ social scene.
Kings of Leon – Sex On Fire
The sons of a preacher man conquered the mainstream well and truly with this song and it’s immense hook, and eased us into our final year of studies.
Drew Heatley
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Iglu And Hartly – This City
A timeless slice of good old fashioned pop-rock (this one's for you Pete)
M.I.A – Paper Planes
None can deny the sheer class of this song. It's also the perfect opportunity to pretend to be far more street than you actually are.
This Town Needs Guns – 26 Is Dancier Than 4
This indie floor filler, with its mathy, quirk-pop tendancies saw us through many a sweaty night out in 2nd year.
Secondsmile – This Is Your Home Town And It's Cutting You
An epic and intense post-hardcore anthem to soundtrack the experience of being away from home for the past 3 years.
Explosions In The Sky – The Birth And Death Of The Day
A slow-burning, sky-reaching post-rock classic. Everyone should have this in their lives
Graham Turner
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Honourary Extras:
Alphabeat - Fascination
The word is on your lips...
Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
Because we'd hate to seem 2000 and late
Vampire Weekend – A Punk
Ey Ey Ey Ey!
Rihanna – Umbrella
No, you'll never escape it. We won't let you.
Foals – Cassius
Mathematic glory.
Dizzee Rascal feat Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me
S'up darlin? I've been keeping my eye on your movement...
Michael Jackson – You Wanna Be Startin Somethin'
RIP. We will miss you x
A.T.
