My songs from the marvellous CrucialTracks website last week - Eddie Cochranm Fun Boy 3, the Banshees, the Floaters, Finbarr and Aine Furey, Andy Williams, the Small Faces, and Tolü Makay and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra do the Saw Doctors
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What's your go-to song for getting ready in the morning?
"C'mon Everybody" by Eddie Cochran
To be honest, I tend to listen to speech radio most mornings, but if I do listen to music it would either be Irish rebel songs, or something like this
Share a song that sounds like your favorite weather.
"Summertime (Live in Hitchin 6th April 1983)" by Fun Boy Three
My favourite weather is that of a lazy summer's day, when everyone slows down and relaxes a bit.
This song embodies that, although this particular performance is a bit different.
One day I’ll do a list of my favourite bits from live shows…and the Fun Boys doing Summertime at the Hammersmith Palais would be in the list.
It was a very cool show altogether, and this song was especially good live. This recording doesn’t really capture that experience but it’s a nice reminder
"Summertime (Live in Hitchin 6th April 1983)" by Fun Boy Three on Apple music
Share a song that captures the moment when seasons change.
"Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant" by Siouxsie & The Banshees
I know we're not quite there yet...but is Advent a season?
I’m not sure why but I associate this song with the beginning of Advent, and it’s always the first song on my Christmas playlist, or mini disc, or mix tape
The video is worth seeing, featuring the band, including Robert Smith of the Cure, in festive Victorian mode
"Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant" by Siouxsie & The Banshees on Apple music
What song makes you feel like you're floating?
"Float On" by The Floaters
This is a bit 'on the nose', but as a song it does very much what it says on the tin
(with apologies for the Britishisms)
What's your favorite song about growing up?
"Hail, Rain or Snow (with Aine Furey)" by Finbar Furey
I don't know if this is quite about growing up, but it's a song I really like and it does feel very grown up.
Aine Furey is the daughter of Finbar Furey, who himself is one of the Furey Brothers
"Hail, Rain or Snow (with Aine Furey)" by Finbar Furey on Apple music
Share a song that makes time feel like it's standing still.
"Moon River" by Andy Williams
What song would you dedicate to your younger self?
"Itchycoo Park (Mono Version) [2012 Remaster]" by Small Faces
Because it all has been too beautiful.
"Itchycoo Park (Mono Version) [2012 Remaster]" by Small Faces on Apple music
What's a song that feels like magic every time you hear it?
"N17" by Tolü Makay & RTÉ Concert Orchestra
This is a ballad version of a Saw Doctors sing-a-long hit, with a full orchestra.Its as if Whitney was singing the Clash, and it feels like magic, a special alchemy, to me.