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Merry Xmas Everybody
Slade
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Share a song that sounds like your favorite childhood memory.

This came out when I was 9 years old, and I think I remember seeing it on Top of the Pops.

It's celebratory and wistful at the same time,. Noddy seems to be ever so slightly detached from the festivities, at least he does to me

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The Springhill Mining Disaster (feat. Damien Dempsey)
Pauline Scanlon
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What's a song you'd want your best friend to hear for the first time?

I only heard this fairly recently. My friend likes Kate Rusby and Nick Cave (and a few Ewan MacColl songs), and this is in that sort of area

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London Girl
The Pogues
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Share a song that captures the feeling of being homesick.

I'm perhaps lucky in that I've never had much cause to be homesick. I live about a mile from the house I grew up in.

However, it's not exactly homesickness, but I do miss London...and this gives me an excuse to post another song about dear, old London town.

This song is slightly written off in the Pogues catalogue, partly because it was on an EP along with Body of an American and Rainy Night in Soho, which are classics

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The Old Main Drag
The Pogues
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What song do you associate with your favorite book or movie?

I associate the Pogues with Dickens. They are both poets of London, both are peopled with extraordinary characters, and both are on the side of the outsiders.

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Mad Eyed Screamer
The Creatures
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What's a song that makes you want to learn an instrument?

I don't have a musical bone in my body, but I'd quite like to have a go at the drums. It seems like it could be a good workout, no matter how awful I was.

This song would be marvellous to be able to play

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Big Sur
The Beach Boys
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What song makes you feel nostalgic for a time you never lived through?

I've answered a slightly different question tbh. This is both about a time I never lived through, and about a place I've never been. Except in my imagination.

The Beach Boys, and surf music in general, feels familiar...but also totally alien.

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C'mon Everybody
Eddie Cochran
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What's your go-to song for getting ready in the morning?

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


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