This latest classic albums section concentrates on modern times and runs the noughties and the teens together – after all, it can take a while to see which albums are destined to be classics.
We’ll say it again: you have three tracks and the year, and need to find the band and the title of the album. Although I suspect this is getting increasingly hard in the era of the single-track download.
Answers: here
1 ‘I Wish I Was a Girl’; ‘Teenage Icon’; ‘No Hope’ (2012)
2 ‘Wrestlers’; ‘Shake a Fist’; ‘Ready for the Floor’ (2008)
3 ‘Blame Game’; ‘All of the Lights’; ‘Runaway’ (2010)
4 ‘Alone in Kyoto’; ‘Surfing on a Rocket’; ‘Cherry Blossom Girl’ (2004)
5 ‘Waiting for a Sign’; ‘Shut Up’; ‘Husbands’ (2013)
6 ‘Renegade’; ‘Takeover’; ‘Girls, Girls, Girls’ (2001)
7 ‘Bitter Branches’; ‘On Battleship Hill’; ‘The Glorious Land’ (2011)
8 ‘Troublemaker’; ‘Lazuli’; ‘Myth’ (2012)
9 ‘Dungeness’; ‘You Got the Style’; ‘El Salvador’ (2003)
10 ‘Extreme Ways’; ‘In My Heart’; ‘We Are All Made of Stars’ (2002)
11 ‘One and Only’: ‘Turning Tables’; ‘Rolling in the Deep’ (2011)
12 ‘So Here We Are’; ‘Pioneers’; ‘Helicopter’ (2005)
13 ‘In the Morning of thee Magicians’; ‘Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell’; ‘Do You Realize??’ (2002)
14 ‘Paper Gangsta’; ‘Beautiful, Dirty, Rich’; ‘Poker Face’ (2008)
15 ‘Living for the Weekend’; ‘Cash Machine’; ‘Hard to Beat’ (2005)
16 ‘Mary’s in India’; ‘Sand in My Shoes’; ‘White Flag’ (2003)
17 ‘Velvet Snow’; ‘Taper Jean Girl’; ‘The Bucket’ (2004)
18 ‘Push That Knot Away’; ‘Glamour Puss’; ‘(Still A) Weirdo’ (2010)
19 ‘Shattered and Hollow’; ‘Heaven Knows’; ‘My Silver Lining’ (2014)
20 ‘Twisted Logic’; ‘White Shadows’; ‘Speed of Sound’ (2005)
21 ‘Reckless Serenade’; ‘Brick By Brick’; ‘Don’t Sit Down Cause I’ve Moved Your Chair’ (2011)
22 ‘Stuck in a Rut’; ‘Growing On Me’; ‘I Believe in a Thing Called Love’ (2005)
23 ‘Time Honoured Tradition’; ‘Everyday I Love You Less and Less’; ‘I Predict a Riot’ (2005)
24 ‘In the Garden of Edie’; ‘Cool Papa Bell’; ‘The Werewolf’ (2016)
25 ‘Throw Away Your Television’; ‘Dosed’; ‘Can’t Stop’ (2002)
26 ‘Complicated’; ‘Raining Men’; ‘Only Girl (In the World)’ (2010)
27 ‘Beat Goes On’; ‘Candy Shop’; ‘Give It 2 Me’ (2008)
28 ‘Walk the Fleet Road’; ‘Et Raw Meat = Blood Drool’; ‘Papillon’ (2009)
29 ‘Witch Doctor’; ‘Someday (Place in the Sun)’; ‘Trampoline’ (2013)
30 ‘Milk & Black Spiders’; ‘Inhaler’; ‘My Number’ (2013)