As you’ll all know STV are currently trying to put together ‘Scotland’s Greatest Album’TM by committee and public votes. Well Chris Ward, who you have heard on the Scots Whay Hae! podcast asked me if I could put together my own album for his own podcast Seen Your Video where we could share and compare. (It’s actually more of a mix-tape as Chris rightly points out. The ‘Greatest Scottish Album’ is Hats by The Blue Nile. I could have saved them all that bother.)
You can hear the resulting chat and justifications by heading over there now, but I thought it would be quite nice, for me if no one else, to have all my songs available in one handy place for easy comparison. So here they are in video form (sending everyone a tape was just going to be too much hassle). It comprises of three songs from the 1970s, three from the 80s, then 90s and finally the 00s. I hope you approve of at least some of them:
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Next
The Sweet: Ballroom Blitz
The Skids: Into the Valley
The Blue Nile: The Downtown Lights
The Cocteau Twins: Pearly Dewdrops Drop
The Jesus and Mary Chain: Just Like Honey
Teenage Fanclub: Sparky’s Dream
Belle and Sebastian: The Boy with the Arab Strap
Arab Strap: The First Big Weekend
Primal Scream: Accelerator
Ballboy: I Hate Scotland
Mylo: In Your Arms
These are my selections, now tell me yours (if you like).