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Old music

It's out with the new, in with the old as Guardian writers take turns daily to select a song from the past that moves them
  • Cocteau Twins

    Old music: Cocteau Twins – Crushed

    The Cocteau Twins were not a band to be understood – instead they invited you to fly into the mystery

  • Stevie Wonder

    Old music: Stevie Wonder – Visions

    A dash of vintage Wonder brought a sense of wonder to spotty teenager's musical life

  • Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in concert.

    Old music: Bruce Springsteen – Racing in the Street

    Bruce Springsteen knows rock'n'roll tells us lies – he loves the falsehoods, but he wants us to know the truth, too

  • Synth pop pioneers Soft Cell in December 1981

    Old music: Soft Cell – Say Hello Wave Goodbye (12in version)

    Whoever thought to pair Marc Almond with an oboe for nine minutes turned out to be some sort of genius

  • Carleen Anderson

    Old music: Young Disciples – Apparently Nothin' (Soul River Mix)

    Sitting in the back of a car, and the Young Disciples come on. Time to annoy the parents with headrest drumming

  • Breadline in Los Angeles during the Great Depression

    Old music: Stephen Foster – Hard Times (Come Again No More)

    A song written nearly 160 years ago still resonated down American history. And you don't need to be American to be blown away

  • Old music: Ross – Swallow Your Dreams

    A chance encounter with a busker, a horse sanctuary in Kent – sometimes songs take you on the strangest journeys

  • liverpool waterfront

    Old music: The Mighty Wah! – Come Back

    Pete Wylie could hit and he could miss. But when he hit, he could knock your socks off, as John Peel testified

  • Old music: Sinéad O'Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U

    This song was so pervasive precisely because its emotions were so universal – and its performance so truthful

  • Robert Wyatt

    Old music: Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free

    In which a hero of the English counterculture embraces the hedonistic disco of Chic, and plays a blinder

  • Bob Dylan

    Old music: Bob Dylan – Boots of Spanish Leather

    You don't need to have been jilted to be moved by this early Dylan masterpiece – just to have felt the pain of upheaval

  • Simon and Garfunkel

    Old music: Simon & Garfunkel – A Most Peculiar Man

    Paul Simon's English period produced some of Simon & Garfunkel's best-loved work – including this understated song inspired by four lines in a London newspaper.

  • Rod Serling, creator and presenter of The Twilight Zone

    Old music: Golden Earring – Twilight Zone

    The best AOR record of the early 80s? Something by Fleetwood Mac, maybe? No, it was made by four Dutch blokes

  • luke haines

    Old music: Baader Meinhof – Mogadishu

    What kind of musician decides to write a concept album about terrorism and its consequences? Luke Haines, that's who

  • Charles De Gaulle

    Old music: The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – The Intro and the Outro

    Charles de Gaulle on accordion? Vivian Stanshall took introducing the band to ridiculous extremes in 1967

  • Depeche Mode in the early 80s

    Old music: Depeche Mode – See You

    Jon Lloyd: Conventional wisdom held that boys weren't supposed to like early Depeche Mode. Conventional wisdom was wrong

  • REM band

    Old music: REM – Feeling Gravity's Pull

    Michael Hann: The greatest of bands can be as opaque as they wish – you'll still somehow understand exactly what they mean

  • Julian Cope of the Teardrop Explodes

    Old music: Julian Cope – Charlotte Anne

    Maxton Walker: It was a record so good, so beautiful, that Radio 1 played it twice in a row one Saturday morning

  • Manic Street Preachers

    Old music: Manic Street Preachers – Theme from M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)

    Who'd have thought the Manics' big chart breakthrough would be soft-rock cover of a 70s sitcom theme?

  • Rod Stewart

    Old music: Rod Stewart – Maggie May

    A reminder of Rod the mod at his peerless best, before the Atlantic crossing that robbed him of his soul

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