100 Great Scottish Songs: Scotland's Best Loved Songs

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This includes a "I lost control and I liked it" vocal hook that will no doubt make for the perfect call and response live. His sophomore album, Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent, is also set to be just as massive - the LP's first two singles, Forget Me and Pointless, also reached Number 1, bringing Lewis' tally up to four. Wet Wet Wet heart/never *1985*: https://www.youtube.c*m/watch?v=xCEFysCT1a4 this album would go 5x plat. and yield 4 top 10 hits. i was 10 yrs old this year and madonna's like a virgin album & the 'we are the world' single would be so big, so any artist that could compete with them is extraordinary.

A soaring version of the song about suicide by the superstar Scots singer-songwriter which topped the UK Singles chart in January. He says it was "by far the most personal tune" he had ever written and he drew on feelings surrounding his aunt who took her own life when he was younger.

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Last year saw something of a haul of Scottish artists reaching Number 1, with both Lewis Capaldi and DJ duo LF SYSTEM enjoying Number 1 success with Forget You and Afraid To Feel, respectively (Lewis also gained a fourth char-topper this year with Pointless). The Glasgow-based artist/band aka Fionn Crossan produces/produce a fascinating kaleidoscopic mash of genre-bending instrumentation scattering drum n bass across the kind of dissonnant keyboard and guitar textures favoured by My Bloody Valentine. scandal/the warrior *1984*: https://www.youtube.c*m/watch?v=yMHtDFDJCqY peaking @ #7 over here, i can only recall 1 other hit from them 'goodbye to you'...but when you turned on the radio here in america you would listen to 1 great song after another. Sounding like a country classic with a definite Glasgow lilt. "I listened to the demo on the train from London to Glasgow. I had tears streaming down my face. That was when I realised, I had written something deeply personal to me," she recalled. It’s got drum and bass rhythms, prime Depeche Mode-style synths and fantastic vocals. "It’s a song that we’re very proud of and we hope you like it too," they said. The Scots-Swedish duo led by ex-Geneva singer Andrew Montgomery produce one of their most seductive four minutes yet.

We have a 10-day return policy, which means you have 10 days after receiving your item to request a return. I’ll see your “best Scottish song” challenge, Drowned In Sound, and raise you the best outsider anthem ever written. Released in the interim between If You’re Feeling Sinister and The Boy With The Arab Strap, ‘Lazy Line Painter Jane’ is the sound of Belle and Sebastian at the very peak of their creative powers. Cross-country running, furtive fumblings on public transport, yeast infections: Stuart Murdoch sets the minutiae of a stifling, small-town adolescence against joyous swells of Hammond organ, adds soaring guest vocals from Thrum’s Monica Queen, then slathers the whole lot in nostalgic, Super-8-style fuzz. Desperately sad, yet inexplicably uplifting, these are the finest 5 minutes and 52 seconds of music any Scot has ever committed to tape. NOW WHERE’S MY PRIZE MONEY? That rare moment when you’re in love and life is great, played on loop for three and a half minutes. I want to listen to it until infinity. Scots DJs Hannah Laing and Stephen Kirkwood collaborate on this sparkling banger that mixes house, hi-nrg disco and a haunting soul sample. The singer-songwriter is adept at spouting her stark warped Tori Amos songs of 'abusive c*nts; through the most minimal of instrumentation. This transcendent highlight from her SAY Award-nominated album For You Who Are The Wronged hits through with a killer hook.

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Scotland is indeed a beautiful country and has produced some of the most beautiful songs. These are a reminder of the rich heritage and cultural significance of Scotland. Over 4m plays on Spotify alone for this insatiable rapid-fire release from the new Glasgow-based drill duo consisting of Trigga and YSK from out of Glasgow's Govanhill who appear to have been touted by Rangers fan groups. The exciting new 18-year-old artist from Bathgate is at his best on this darkly twisting electro-synth epic which comes over like a poppier Nine Inch Nails from his superb debut The Storm EP. He says it’s about the internet and how you see everyone posting about things they are going to do and achieve but nothing really ever happens.

Ivor Cutler is a self-described "oblique musical philosopher" who gained the unlikeliest of cult followings following his appearance in The Beatles 'Magical Mystery Tour' in 1967. In "Life in a Scotch Sitting Room #2 Episode 11" Cutler recounts the depressing years he spent growing up in the Scottish countryside which inspired many of his songs. Accompanied by his trademark Harmonium, Ivor's storytelling is bleak, hilarious and deeply touching all at the same time. The absurd nature of his songs only emphasises the fact that he was clearly a deeply troubled man. He is a Scottish national treasure that will be forever missed. The Glasgow singer-songwriter exposes tangible vulnerability and pain on this sensitive, emotional jewel from her EP Mooching. Like a lost James Bond movie theme song this epic string-strewn nugget, the brainchild of Paul McGeechan, keyboard player of Love & Money, features Steven Lindsay, the front man with the Big Dish, one of the great lost bands of the 80's.

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nu shooz/i can't wait *1986* : https://www.youtube.c*m/watch?v=KdPfy1Khjpg peaking @ #3 on the hot 100 chart, they're a married couple *still happily married today!* & this song perfectly showcases how eclectic and diverse the 80s music scene really was. not a traditional pop or club song, very unique for the times. There’s a lot of pressure in your 20s to be social but also be hard working. To drink and party but be healthy. It’s a rollercoaster of emotions and we are still learning who we are. I wanted to write this song because I think a lot of people think they are the only ones going through it (including myself), when really we all have our struggles. I wanted to remind people we all have our own chapters and stories to tell." Inspired standout art-synth journey that ebbs and flows in unexpected ways from the Edinburgh-based artist aka Callum Govan's super debut EP, The Powers and the Ways of Altruistic Love.