On my favourite bike ride, the last stretch us a mixture of short sharp hills and great flats for psychotically fast sprinting. If I push it, from start to finish, it's the length of this song on the Ipod.
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The Velvet Underground are not to everyone's taste and, perhaps are a tad overated. But I always loved them and, maybe, love Lou reed and much of Johns Cale's solo stuff more.
Songs for Drella was their collaboration in tribute to Andy Warhol when he died. Not only was it the best of either's work in years, never have two people buried the hatchet in a more dignified fashion.
This track is maybe my favourite. It's manages to be sad, loving and celebratory all at once, tinged with the regret we all feel when we realise we've lost the chance to say what we wanted to someone.
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One the best training songs for ever. It's what waterproof MP3 players were made for.
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Visceral.
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Some songs command your full attention every time you play them. This is one of them. I imagine giving my daughter this song when she's teenage, in preparation for the first break up.
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So, after having a baby, moving house, having said baby and her Mum go into hospital it's all over. Or, rather, it's the beginning.
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I've been caught air guitaring to this. This song made we feel what the death of relationship feels like and still makes me think of a certain girl of Polish ancestry.
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Overlooked. We've all heard Once in a Lifetime though (which has some context as 40 years of age becomes more real with every year)
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After the night I first met my wife, I couldn't sleep for the week I was waiting for our next date.
This song feels like that.
NORTHERN PLANNER 