Tonight's very special guest ATL 'house band' are The Minutes from Dublin which got our little minds working overtime about the fleeting nature of time. Time is everywhere. If we arent spending it, we're wasting it and there are a shedload of awesome songs written about it. Let us know your pick by shouting us here, on the ATL facebook or ATL twitter and we will give y'all a shout on the show tonight...

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U2 - Seconds

Paul McClean (ATL Producer)

Back before Bono began to look like a drunk old Uncle at a wedding dance, U2 were an angular, spikey young bunch of Dublin art punks. As they geared up for world domination they release some fine albums and the best of them arguably was War way back in 1981. As well as tracks like 'Sunday Bloody Sunday' and 'New Year's day', 'Seconds' was always a stand-out, coming across like a DublinTalking Heads. The drums sound like they're nearly catching up with the bassline which anchors the whole track, while the breakdown in the middle seemed very avant-garde at the time with it's film sample. The entire album reminds us why in the first instance the biggest band in the world were once also one of the best.

Thee More Shallows - 2 AM

Amy McGarrigle - ATL Content Assistant

Thee More Shallows' More Deep Cuts album from 2004 is soaked in late night contemplation and paranoia, and nothing evokes this more than the track '2 AM'. A song about being woken up at 2 AM by a party, only to figure "who's making that noise if I'm up here all alone". But don’t worry, its not some sort of strange paranoarmal activity, its just a party in the end. But the song is just a 4'50 minute nugget of late night paranoia, heightened by atmospheric layers of guitars, and the distressed, shriveled voice.

Pink Floyd - Time (Darkside of the Moon) 1973

Philip Taggart - ATL Presenter

Like a lot of other adolescent boys (albeit not since the 70's) I spent a considerable period of my teenage years wrestling with the huge psychedelic, prog pomp that was Pink Floyd. 'Time', the fourth track of the seminal 'Darkside of the Moon', charts the passage of time and mortality. It really doesn't build you up at all after sinking you with it's depressingly existential subject matter. In a positive note, the clock noises at the beginning sound pretty cool and the guitar solo oozes Dave Gilmour raditude.