Crucial Tracks
Tracks sync’d from the Crucial Tracks website.
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New York State of Mind by Billy Joel
What’s a song you associate with your favorite holiday? My wife has family on Staten Island. We were over for a family wedding, the first time I’d been to New York. We’d had a few days up at Cape Cod and Boston before we headed down and into Manhattan. As cliched as it was, all…
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Under the Weather by KT Tunstall
Share a song that feels like it has healing powers. One of my favourite songs, both from KT and in general, I love the soft build of this, the simple refrain, it is within itself a comfort blanket of a song. But where it really hits me is how it pulls me together, taking all…
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Dog Days Are Over by Florence + the Machine
What song makes you think about the future? I am hopeful of the future being better, always optimistic —the best you can do is good enough?— but it’s hard to keep that mindset with the dystopian terrors unleashed seemingly every single day —there’s no country left, to love and cherish. But if we lose hope…
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Do Your Thing by Basement Jaxx
What’s your favorite song to listen to while doing chores? Do you dance like no-one’s watching? Or do you dance more freely when you are alone, when you are dancing to escape the boredom of the everyday, a way to make your chores fun? I am definitely the latter, as much as I enjoy dancing,…
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Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb
Share a song that sounds like your favorite childhood memory. We had a large back garden. The shade of the house only extend as far as the edge of the grass, so it was there we placed our big scratchy wool travel blanket before lying down to do precisely nothing. My Mum loved the sun.…
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“Heroes” (2017 Remaster) by David Bowie
What’s a song you’d want your best friend to hear for the first time? So so many songs. Music is such a huge part of my life this feels like an impossible task. One song? One! I’d have to go with something special, likely well known, but knowing my best friend (who is my wife)…