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Readers recommend: songs about gossip
It may be bad for you, but rumour has it we all like a good natter. Now stick your oar in and slip us the best tunes about chit-chat
We all know what idle talk leads to. But can you imagine a world without it? There are entire magazines – entire industries even – devoted to gossip. People enjoy it. And rumour has it there are also quite a few songs about hearsay.
Gossip can be the malicious spreading of misinformation, but unsubstantiated tittle-tattle is sometimes all we have to go on. It can obsess musicians, and inspire them to some great works.
Sometimes what can seem like trivial chit-chat can have profound consequences. But sometimes it is just trivial chit-chat, and a bit of a laugh. So come on – rack your brains, delve into your record collections (or your iTunes libraries: yes, I've heard how you people operate) – and tell us the best songs about gossip.
The toolbox:
* This week's collaborative Spotify playlist.
* The RR archive.
* The Marconium (blog containing a wealth of data on RR).
* The 'Spill (blog for the RR community).
* An explanation of how the word "dond" came to be used by RR people to mean the seconding of another reader's nomination.
Please do:
* Post your nominations before midday on Tuesday if you wish them to be considered.
* Write a few lines attempting to justify your choices.
But please don't:
* Post more than one third of the lyrics of any song.
* Dump lists of nominations. If you must post more than two or three at once, please attempt to justify your choices.
Here are the results of last week's Readers recommend: songs about showing off.
- Pop and rock
Jon Dennis

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New music: Papercuts – Do What You Will (live)
Not too in-your-face and not too emo, Californian band Papercuts just make ever so lovely dream pop
With a name like Papercuts, you'd expect the music created by Jason Quever and his evolving collection of bandmates to either be a little in-your-face or a little too close to emo for comfort. Thankfully, Quever's brand of slightly bleary-eyed, acoustic-led dream pop is too shy for the former and too clever for the latter – and the gorgeous Do What You Will is evidence of that. This exclusive live version of the track was recorded in an art space in Quever's home town of San Francisco and features a little bit of talking from Quever (and friends) as well as singing and playing instruments. Sometimes it's that simple.
The original version of Do What You Will is taken from the album Fading Parade, which is out via Sub Pop on 28 February.
- Pop and rock
Michael Cragg

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New band of the day: February 2011 playlist
It's your chance to hear the best of this month's New band of the day column, featuring female Brit rappers, gorgeously sad girl-pop and Manchester's answer to J Dilla
There is an argument that every year contains roughly the same amount of great music. We're not so sure. We're not saying 2010 was a 1966 or a 1977-style term, but there did seem to be an inordinate number of brilliant records knocking around.
The good news is that 2011 is hardly looking anticlimactic. It's too early to foresee any shape to the year, and it's unclear what changes our much-loved chillwave/drag/witch house favourites will undergo over the next few months (although if Balam Acab's celestial Dream Out is any measure, we can't wait to find out) – so for now let's just celebrate the sheer variety out there.
As ever, our monthly roundup of the best music by the best New band of the day artists includes acts from the last few weeks, as well as a few from further back who happen to have released stuff this or last month – hence the inclusion of Brit rapper Lady Chann and How to Dress Well.
Elsewhere there's G-Side's quiet-storm rap, D/R/U/G/S's ambient-trance and Two Wounded Birds' dark high-school hop pop. Therapies Son is a one-man Flaming Lips, Keep Shelly in Athens offer gorgeously sad girl-pop from Greece while Hayvanlar Alemi bring Television-ary psych-rock guitars all the way from Turkey. And Jensen Sportag's Mapquest is a sublime hipster take on 80s Essex-boy jazz-funk from the least Nashville band in history.
Finally, there's Indian-Panamanian Londoner RKO with his Gaga-ishly infectious robo-pop, Star Slinger (aka the Manc J Dilla) doing fabulously strange things to 70s soul, Hiss Golden Messenger's croony acoustic meditation on that same era's west coast MOR rock, Jessica Lea Mayfield coming on like a noir Taylor Swift, and Nathaniel Rateliff, who puts the dour into troubadour. Enjoy!
February's NBOTD tracklisting
Lady Chann – Treble to Your Bass
G-Side ft Chris Lee – Nat Geo
D/R/U/G/S – Love/Lust
Therapies Son – Yellow Mama
Keep Shelly in Athens – Hauntin' Me
Two Wounded Birds – My Lonesome
Jensen Sportag – Mapquest
Beat Connection – Silver Screen
RKO – The Payback
Hiss Golden Messenger – O Nathaniel
Hayvanlar Alemi – Welcome to Sunny Australia
Swimming – Team Jetstream
Nathaniel Rateliff – Shroud
Jessica Lea Mayfield – Our Hearts Are Wrong
Marthas and Arthurs – Clamour For A Fudge
Star Slinger – Punch Drunk Love
How To Dress Well – Decisions
Balam Acab – Dream Out
The Shoes – Wastin' Time
Paul Lester

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