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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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“Shining Light” from the 2001 album Free All Angels

Nestled between two guitar-rock ragers — album opener “Walking Barefoot” and “Burn Baby Burn” — the anthemic “Shining Light” takes Ash to perhaps its greatest and most ambitious heights. In a parallel universe somewhere in a galaxy far, far away, this is perfect mainstream pop music. –Michael Marotta

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