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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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“Oh Yeah” from the 1996 album 1977

In the ’90s, Ash were embodied by their youth, and few songs of the time told the tale of young, innocent love quite like “Oh Yeah”, which instantly transports you back to a time of carefree summers, naive hand-holding, and late night make-out sessions. For me, it reminds me of working at a shoe store at the Massapequa Mall on Long Island. “Oh yeah, she was taking me over,” Tim Wheeler sang over an orchestral rain, his lyric seemingly pulled straight out of a geeky conversation in a suburban strip mall parking lot. –Michael Marotta

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