This is what I like to think of as a hypodermic song – it slides under your skin with just the slightest nick, and before you know it you’ve got a bit old dose of feels.
Bedroom Versions: ‘Little Lucy, What’s Your Problem?’
I guarantee you this is the best song you’ve never heard. Unless you know me, in which case you should be more than aware of it already. If you aren’t, I’m sorry I’ve been holding out on you.
Bedroom Versions: ‘Keeping Calm And Carrying On’
Sometimes it helps to take a moment and reflect that your current fortune is, in many ways, a result of your track record of unceasing failure.
Bedroom Versions: ‘Up The Wolves’
Bedroom Versions: ‘Leave The Blinds Open’
Bedroom Versions: ‘Wondrous Place’
Bedroom Versions: ‘The Friend That You Need Right Now (Sheffield Song)’
Bedroom Versions: ‘Northwest Passage’
For all that I’ve spent my life immersed in music, I’m happy to admit there are gaping holes in my musical knowledge. I love Northern Soul, for all that I don’t recognise half the classics; I can and will argue you into submission as to why the reigning trifecta of Britpop is in fact Kenickie, the Boo Radleys and Pulp, but I couldn’t name three singles by the Verve to save my life.
All of which is to say that I frequently discover well-regarded, much-covered artists who have nevertheless completely passed me by. Continue reading
Bedroom Versions: ‘Heartbreaker’
Before I get into this week’s song, a quick content notice: there’s discussion of several recent high-profile cases of emotionally abusive and bigoted behaviour below the cut. Continue reading
Bedroom Versions: ‘Back Buchanan Street’
It can be so hard to contemplate what the places we know best were like before they were those places, or what they’ll be like after.
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