The Sundays – Summertime

It’s December 🙂

That’s thoroughly fantastic. It really is my favourite time of the year. As a kid, as much as school was fun, the joy, love and togetherness of the endless December held something really special. I’ve always savoured and enjoyed my Decembers. It really is such a happy time.

I think this is the happiest song to welcome in this incredible month. This song was released in 1997 and reached an honourable #15 in the UK. It’s completely happy and fun and smiley and captures the essence of summer better than probably any other song I’ve heard.

The album Static and Silence was much acclaimed as an album to listen to when you want to enjoy the greatness of love. The album has also been described as the epitome of pop music. December is a month of love after all.

For me, this is an introduction to one of my greatest loves – female vocal. Harriet Wheeler is one of the first voices I truly fell in love with. We shall explore this in the coming months. In the meantime, just enjoy this song. Play it a couple of times – you’ll thank me later.

The Prodigy – Mindfields

“The Fat of the Land” was The Prodigy’s pinnacle. The album topped the charts on both sides of the Altantic and spawned two HUGE #1 singles. At the time, it was the fastest selling album ever and has since sold around 10 million copies. Yet, the critics loved it. It did not try to fit in. In true Prodigy style, it shone because it was so brash, so harsh yet so polished and so great.

“Firestarter” gave them their first #1 single in the UK. When this happened, they re-released their previous nine singles. The Prodigy littered the Top 200. I thought that was pretty damn cool.

I don’t have a favourite track on the album. I just cannot pick one. I did want to showcase this song. You might remember it from The Matrix. It’s an epic track.