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Abide With Me
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
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Think back to your childhood: What is your earliest music memory? Share that song and your story!

My earliest music memory is far too long ago for me to remember with any certainty!

It was maybe a nursery rhyme, or a hymn...so I've picked a hymn I know that I would have heard from an early age.

This is played at Wembley before every FA Cup Final.

I always get weirdly emoywhen I hear it.

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Ulakanakulot (2022 Remaster) artwork
Ulakanakulot (2022 Remaster)
Virgin Prunes
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What song makes you feel like you're exactly where you're supposed to be?

No idea why...but this song

A couple of bits of trivia. JK Rowling had a pair of goldfish named after the singers, Gavin and Guggi. Guggi's little brother was on the cover of an early U2 record

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No Memory
Scarlet Fantastic
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Share a song that feels like it's giving you permission to feel everything.

The more I thought about this song, the more it seemed appropriate to the prompt

I think it was recorded at Stock, Aitken and Waterman's studio....but don't let that put you off

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Keep On Keepin' On!
Redskins
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What's your favorite song about patience?

A bit of a story to this one.

About 40 years ago we were living in a shared house with some friends.

One of the other couple's friends was a skinhead, and he used to hang around the house a lot. He was a nice chap - more of an amiable hippy than a skin in his way, really. He was known as 'Chairman Shit', or just 'the Chairman'. If I ever knew his real name, I've forgotten it. He was a drummer in a band. I never got around to listening to them. This was before the internet, and the Chairman was far too disorganised to bring a tape with him. Also, I kind of never really thought that they'd be that great, if the Chairman was the drummer.

Fast forward to a couple of years ago, and I remembered the Chairman and realised I could easily find his band on the internet, so I gave them a listen.

This one fits the prompt of 'patience', after a fashion.

(Re: the name...they were skinheads, and they were socialist, hence Red Skins. I'm not sure whether they'd have chosen that name 40 years on)

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Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler? (Theme from 'Dad's Army') artwork
Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler? (Theme from 'Dad's Army')
Bud Flanagan
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Share a song that captures the feeling of being proud.

I watched this with grandparents who'd lived through WW2.

I'm proud that they fought the fascists, and also proud that they could laugh Dad's Army

Great tune, in any case


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