Readers recommend playlist: underwater songs

Diving into your suggestions, a reader surfaces with Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix all caught in his list

Here is this week’s playlist – songs picked by a reader from hundreds of your suggestions last week. Thanks for taking part. Read more about how our weekly series works at the end of the piece.

When our ancestors crawled out of the ocean on to dry land they carried the sea with them; as we still do. All of our cells contain the briny, without which we simply could not exist. Harking back 500m years to an earlier evolutionary experiment in intelligence, Bob James’s Nautilus, released in 1974 and apparently named for its sonic similarity with a submerging submarine, is one of the most sampled musical pieces of all time. By itself it is a thing of fluid beauty, but to list all the passages and tonal effects extracted would be to list a history of hip-hop.