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Jesus Says: Celebrate Ash Wednesday with the best songs by the Northern Irish rock band

Today is Ash Wednesday, which we're told has something to do with religion. Here at Vanyaland, we worship at the altar of music, so we're celebrating the day by rounding up some of our favorite songs by Ash. The Northern Ireland trio blasted out from a pack of Britpop brats in the mid-'90s to create some of the best power-pop records of the past twenty years, extending their impressive career with last year's Kablammo!, which included the boisterous single "Cocoon".

In honor of Ash Wednesday, we polled the Vanyaland staff for their favorite Ash songs, and below is a sampling of the band's preferred work (at least by us, anyway). Use the slider to scan through our selections, and catch up with all things Ash with our June 2015 interview with frontman Tim Wheeler.

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“Meltdown” from the 2004 album Meltdown

Ash frontman and guitarist Tim Wheeler has always been a metalhead at heart, but the singalong pop sensibilities won out for the most part when it came to singles the band released. That all changed with the release of Meltdown in 2004, where the band delivered gut punch after gut punch of tightly wound rock, apparent from the outset with the rousing title track that kicks off the album. Wheeler gleefully shreds throughout the track, spitting out the verses while his Flying V circles around and around, building up before taking over the song full-on. It’s one of the heaviest songs Ash has done to date, even though it still retains the addictiveness that makes their best known numbers so appealing. –Michael Christopher

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