Last week's Crucial Tracks: Public Image, The Outcasts, The Highwomen, Blondie, Scaffold, The Heptones, and, obviously, The Macarena
These were my Crucial Tracks for last week.
Pick a song from an artist or band that's had the biggest impact on your life.
"One Drop" by Public Image Ltd.
Punk rock changed British culture, I think, and it could've been designed for nerdy oiks like the teenage me. This song is much later, but I like it.
Did you sing along to anything today? Describe the moment.
"Macarena (Original Version)" by Los del Río
I cannot tell a lie.
Some drink had been taken.
What is a song that instantly energizes you?
"Self Conscious Over You" by The Outcasts
What song do you wish you had written?
"Highwomen" by The Highwomen
I only heard this a month or so ago. It's the Jimmy Webb / Highwaymen's song reworked from a women's perspective
It includes the brilliantly goth-y line
“I heard ‘witchcraft’ in the whispers and I knew my time was done”
<p style="margin-top: 5px;"><a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/highwomen/1472976734?i=1472976736">"Highwomen" by The Highwomen on Apple music</a></p>
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Share a song that changed your perspective on music.
"Hanging on the Telephone" by Blondie
I thought I should pick a punk song for this prompt as punk changed our perspectives on music and much else.
This was the first punk, or maybe punk-adjacent, song that I bought for myself.
A bit of googling tells me it came out in 1978
God, I’m old
Think back to your childhood: What is your earliest music memory? Share that song and your story!
"Lily the Pink" by The Scaffold
I remember asking my mum and dad what this song was about, and at the time nobody really knew
It was possibly the start of a lifetime of being, ultimately, mystified by pop music.
One of Scaffold, Mike McGear, was Paul McCartney’s little brother
What song makes you feel like anything is possible?
"Book of Rules" by The Heptones
I'm not religious, but when I listen to songs like this, I wonder.
I’m not entirely sure the words fit today’s prompt…but the song as a whole has an optimistic and uplifting feel
It was number 500 in Dave Marsh’s 1001 songs book, so more or less half-way.