“Bless My Soul” by Powderfinger

Powderfinger cut "Bless My Soul" in 2004 especially for Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger, 1994-2000, which makes it the odd one out on a record billed as a look back: a brand-new song slipped onto a hits collection and issued only as a promotional single. Bernard Fanning said the band wrote it while on holiday in Spain, and the lyric keeps circling back there, down to the colours of the Spanish flag.

The video puts Fanning on the rocks along a seaside cliff face, singing as he walks, the colour bent and warped until everything looks slightly unreal, cut together with shots of the band playing. Triple J's audience ranked it number 9 in the Hottest 100 of 2004.

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