Oh what you do to me, no-one knows

Number One of An Occasional Series

There are some songs that you hear for the first time and you think "how is it possible that this song doesn't already exist". I have many songs that I feel that way about, and were I ever to compile an album of the best songs ever written, you can bet most of them would fall into this category. They are songs that touch you in some way, send shivers down your spine, give you goosebumps, whatever.

Number one would be No One Knows by Queens of the Stone Age. The song is just utterly awesome. It was my introduction to them and I fell in love with them from that moment onwards. I can remember the first time I heard it - it must have been January 2003 and I was watching the Oxford Music Channel and the video came on. The opening riff made my heart soar and I was hooked from then on drawn in by this 6ft 5, ginger manly genius who possessed the coolest falsetto in rock.

So what is so special about the song? It is hard to put into words, since how music touches you is an intensely personal thing and not always easy to describe. For me, the vocal delivery makes it a perfect mix of hard rock and uber camp (from the aforementioned falsetto to the decidedly homoerotic backing harmonies); you feel like you've heard it before, but you know you haven't; it makes you want to shake your hair all over the place and dance round your living room like a loon. It makes me want to learn how to play guitar, cos I know I would look cool playing it (please please SingStar, include this on a disc soon. My friends are fed up with my rendition of Go With The Flow). It oozes sex appeal while retaining a sense of humour (kind of like the man himself) - you just have to watch the video to know it doesn't take itself seriously.

Best of all, it just sounds great turned up really loud.