This got a bit overplayed in the UK this summer as it was adopted as the song of the UK teams in the Olympics and the Paralympics, but I still can't get tired of hearing it.
 

One of my favourite live bands. They have a cultish following here in the UK, so the venues are always pretty small. Loved them on the Hazards of Love tour where they played the whole album straight through in the first half, then came back out for a back catalogue second half. The King is Dead is knowingly derivative in places - check Calamity Song (featuring Peter Buck) vs REM's Talk About The Passion - but it all works. Great stuff.

I saw Chris Difford unplugged in a tiny venue at the Edinburgh Fringe in August, with the wonderful Dorie Jackson sharing vocals and taking the higher line that Tilbrook does with Squeeze. They opened with Take Me I'm Yours - it sounded brilliant in that stripped down arrangement of one guitar and two voices.

Elbow's stock is - rightly - riding high in the UK right now after their appearance in the closing ceremony for the London Olympic Games.

Manages to quote The Beatles and Pink Floyd.