365 Brilliant Songs In The World Of Susan

365 Brilliant Songs In The World Of Susan

Ever looked at those lists of “Top 100 Songs In The History Of The World Ever” and thought that while they are oh so clever and serious, (aka pretentious), they are a bit predictable and not really full of songs you’d really want to listen to every day?

I started wondering what sort of list an “ordinary” person would come up with, as opposed to a music journo or someone in the business. What guilty pleasures might be revealed? What memories would those songs trigger? What would *my* “Top 100 Songs In The History Of the World Ever” be like?

Well, since you ask, for starters I wouldn’t do 100,  I’d do a years worth of songs, 365 classics in the world of Susan. Songs that my kids have been tortured to. Songs I hum along to in the shower. Songs I sing loudly in the car. Oh, and guess what. I’ve had a brilliant idea. I’ll make it into a project for 2013!

Don’t go looking for any Dylan, dead Buckley’s, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton or tuneless warbly women on my list. I didn’t grow up listening to “serious” music, didn’t sit around analysing lyrics on LPs played backwards and to me the Beatles were always an oldies band, their career over before I started to get into music. I grew up in the era of glam, disco, punk, new wave, synth and new romantics. I listened to pop music on Radio One and Radio Luxembourg with a bit of Capital and Radio Trent thrown in. I watched Top of the Pops, rushed home from school Tuesday lunchtimes to find out what was the new number one and listened to the chart rundown in the bath on Sunday evenings. That was where I got my music from. Then I moved to the USA, suffered a few years of highly pigeon-holed commercial-packed american radio, discovered MTV and then finally came full circle and rediscovered BBC radio and all my favourite music, (albeit now on Radio Two not one), via the internet.

So here is my list. 

One song a day for 2013.

365 Great Songs In the World of Susan. 

Enjoy. Or not.