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Day 20: A song about giving up.
Suicide is Painless by the Manic Street Preachers.
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6) Saturday Night Fever by the Bee Gees (mainly)
Debates about appropriation aside, this is full of great disco tunes.
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Day 19: A song about perseverance.
Try by Pink
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7) Out of the Blue by ELO
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8) Star Wars soundtrack
Composed by John Williams
As a kid I was dismissive of classical music... but as I matured I realised how much emotion it could convey. And that I'd already been enjoying it in films.
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Day 18: A song I could play on repeat:
The Wild Ones by Suede
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17) A song you haven't listened to in years.
You Win Again by the Bee Gees
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9) Bat Out Of Hell by Meatloaf
No time for his politics but he could really sell a melodramatic rock opera.
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10: The Clash by The Clash
Later albums would show more musical diversification but this debut was all raw anger and energy.
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Day 16: Favourite Soul Artist: Bill Withers - Lovely Day
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Day 15: Favourite Hip Hop artist
Arrested Development - Everyday People
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11: In The City by The Jam
Another strong debut. Better was to come, but the title track is banging.
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14) Favourite Pop Act
Belle and Sebastian - White Collar Boy
So many great nostalgia-prompting tunes.
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12) Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
This and its predecessor albums were such great collaborations with Bowie.
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Are you sure that's not 6th July? (Or 7th June, depending on your location).
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Day 13: Favourite punk band:
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
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13) Elvis Costello - My Aìm is True.
Another great debut, including a timely welcome to the working week: youtu.be/YPbtQUdugds?...
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Day 12: Favourite rock artist
Do REM count as 'rock'? It seems somehow too limiting. But I'm choosing them anyway.
How the West Was Won (and where it got us)
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14) Donna Summer - I Remember Yesterday
An unusual title for an impreasive album that looked forward musically to disco and its offshoots.
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15: Never Mind the Boll*cks, Here's The Sex Pistols.
John Lydon's politics may have gone completely rotten since, but this was still an appropriately two-fingered salute to the establishment.
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Day 11: An Instrumental
Soul Bossa Nova by Quincy Jones.
Groovy, baby, yeah!
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Day 10: A song not in English:
Manu Chao- Clandestino
A brilliant, catchy plea for global solidarity with the persecuted.
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16: Foreigner by Foreigner.
Pop/rock debut mainly notable for the classic Cold As Ice.
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17: The Stranglers, Rattus Norvegicus
Punk is often caricature as attitude over art, but the Stranglers had both, and although their lyrics were provocative they were mostly progressive in intent.
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I saw them in March 2020, just before lockdown. "We are young / we run green / keep our hands / nice and clean..."
[Seemed grimly funny at the time.]
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Great memories of buying the CD single to this and playing it loads in my uni halls of residence.
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Day 9: A song from an unusual artist
No-one would accuse Bjork of being ordinary.
Bjork - Hunter
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18: Peter Gabriel by Peter Gabriel
Gets in the chart on the merits of Solsbury Hill alone, a timeless folky ballad with a tricky time signature.
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Day 8: A band you'd like to be in.
Tough one this, as I'm not sure I'm cut out for the rock n roll lifestyle and fractious artistic differences of most top bands. Ash seem pretty chilled though.
Ash - Angel Interceptor
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