The results are in.
Last week, from a suggestion by Andy Pipkin and with a €50 Golden Discs voucher redeemable in any Golden Discs store on offer, I asked for your favourite song or lyric mentioning a specific year.
You answered in your dozens.
But there could be only one winner.
Third Place:
In The Year 2525 by Zager And Evans
Slightly Bemused writes:
“Is it cheating to add several years? In The Year 2525 by Zager and Evans. They through a few more years in for good measure: 3535; 4545; 5555; 6565; 7510; 8510. Great tune, even if a little apocalyptic.”
Runner-up:
A Life (1895 – 1915) by Mark Hollis
Otis Blue writes:
“Released just over 20 years before his untimely death, Mark Hollis’ eponymous, solo 1998 album remains a fitting swansong to his genius. It’s a beguiling mix of pastoral folk, jazz and ambient music and brimful of hushed, haunted hymnals, the centerpiece of which is A Life (1895-1915), believed to be a tribute to a fallen soldier in WW1.”
Winner:
1952 Vincent Black Lightning by Richard Thompson
AMC writes:
“A tale as old as time – boy meets girl, boy blown to pieces during attempted armed robbery, girl gets free motorbike.”
Nick says: Well done AMC and thanks all.
Last week: Win Nick’s Golden Voucher
Congratulations, AMC! A great tale, as you say! Sadly, I ended up with the Foreman Grill. Still unwashed…
Enjoy whatever treat you bring to yourself with the vouchers :-)
Great winner and love the punchy summary AMC!
Mark Hollis album one of my all time favourites. What an artist, what a man. Indeed he passed before his time Otis. I often wonder if he really did quit music completely or if there’s any unreleased gold somewhere.
Yeah, last time I looked I’d about 6,000 albums and his solo album vies with Laughing Stock as my favourite. Once heard, I never again listened to music in the same way.
This is a nice piece https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/feb/26/mark-hollis-talk-talk-singer?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Cheers OB, enjoyed that.
Reminds me I must have a look at my now archived and in storage CD and vinyl. Alas streaming has substituted the pleasure that used to be pooling around record shops and playing music on my now long gone hifi separates set-up. I’m sure there’s music in there I’ve completely forgotten about that will no doubt spark much joy.
That said, like the album in question, some stuff you never forget.