"American noise-punk duo" '68 welcome us to the number 68 on our countdown... and they sound like this.
Most people identified this week's obvious winner, but we had a few other interesting suggestions too...
The Swede suggested Roland Kirk & Jack McDuff - Doin' the Sixty-Eight, which is the kind of jazz I can just about handle, so yes, pretty cool.
Lynchie & Rigid Digit both offered up Seasick Steve - Barracuda 68, which sounds like ZZ Top in the very best way possible.
Dubai Jim went down the band route and suggested The Mai 68s with Totality For Kids, which is definitely worth a click, particularly as it seems to come from an album called Some Hearts Are Paid To Die.
Martin once again offered a couple of tracks he wasn't that into... Pink Floyd - Summer '68 and Chicago - Questions 67 & 68... before settling on the obvious choice. Saves me the job of suggesting those two as they were both in my library.
Rigid Digit also offered Blink 182 - 6/8... which I might have to save for My Top Ten Time Signature Songs... if I ever do that.
Lyrical offerings included the following...
The Sweet - The Six-Teens...
But sixty-eight was sixty-eight,
no matter what they say...
Apparently John Medd has that on a T-shirt!
Fair play - I've never heard that before, guys, but I loved it.
Other lyrical 68s culled from my own collection included...
Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard... "was Detroit in '68"
Bruce Springsteen - Highway Patrolman... "Frankie came home in '68 and me I took this job"
Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno... "Back in '68 in a sweaty club..."
All fine tunes, but most everyone agreed that there could only be one winner this week. As C put it, "all other possible suggestions have been completely obscured from view by their hair".
This is the second and probably final appearance by The Alarm in this countdown. Wonderfully awful video for your enjoyment too...
67 next week. Nothing as obvious as our last two entries... unless you know different.