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#5. Jigsaw Falling Into Place
by Radiohead


This journey through flirtation, consummation and regret gets about as close as you can to summing up a doomed relationship in four minutes. The lyrics are typical Thom Yorke shards of glass ("What's the point of instruments/ Words are a sawed off shotgun") — but it's the tightness of the music, rising in intensity like a three-act play, that makes Jigsaw howl.

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